Three people were killed and six were critically injured when a residential building collapsed in Havana, state television reported Wednesday.
Nearly a month after false rumors on Twitter about school attacks caused car crashes when parents panicked on the streets of Veracruz, Mexico, state lawmakers there approved new regulations Tuesday making disturbing the peace a crime.
Appeals for aid quickly flooded out to the international community on Tuesday after a major earthquake struck Haiti.
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A Cuban prisoner who went on a hunger strike because he was not part of the government’s recent mass pardon has died, a human rights leader said Tuesday.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed a decree Tuesday requiring all ships navigating from Argentina to the disputed Falkland Islands to carry a government permit.
It has appeared repeatedly on Venezuelan state television, government ads, and the even the president’s Twitter account. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new populist slogan.
A Colombian man, possibly linked with paramilitaries there, may be the mastermind behind the kidnapping in Venezuela of major league catcher Wilson Ramos, Venezuelan Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said Saturday.
Eleven people died Thursday in attacks in two separate towns in the northern portion of Mexico’s Veracruz state, officials said.
Colombian salsa great Alvaro Jose Arroyo, known as Joe Arroyo, died Tuesday morning at a hospital where he was being treated for several health complications, his family said.
The cancerous tumor affecting the larynx of former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has shrunk in size by about 75% after treatment with chemotherapy — a greater reduction than had been expected, his medical team said Monday, according to the state-run Agencia Brasil.
Penguins didn’t always come in black and white, paleontologists said Thursday, citing the discovery of a 36-million-year-old fossil of a bird that, in its day, waddled nearly 5 feet tall.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he is headed back to Cuba for his fourth — and possibly final — round of chemotherapy, state news reported.
The suspect in the disappearance of a Maryland woman during a vacation in Aruba had taken out a travel insurance policy on her, an island official said Wednesday.
Bob Rutledge is on a quest to spread the word about poutine.
Tropical Storm Paula pushed across western Cuba Thursday evening with wind gusts just under hurricane strength in some places, bringing heavy rain and high winds to the island nation, forecasters said.
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