Eduardo Ravani Jr. was photographing a wedding reception early Saturday at Las Terrazas dela Reina on the hills overlooking Santiago, Chile, when the party disc jockey told him: “Hey, I think the building is moving.”
The head of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel has been captured, Mexican federal police announced.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet toured the battered seaport of Talcahuano on Thursday, five days after a tsunami caused by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake roared through parts of the city.
A judge in Haiti said he expects to make a decision soon on the possible release of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the earthquake in January.
A gaggle of photographers, relatives and fashion advisors traipse after Yuniesky Collazo as she twirls for the camera in a rented pink ball gown in one of Havana’s picturesque plazas.
Rescuers searched for survivors Monday as crews sought to deliver food and water and prevent looting after the fifth strongest earthquake in 100 years ravaged central and southern Chile.
A 24-year-old man was rescued from the rubble 11 days after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti.
Three doctors in Argentina have been charged with homicide in the death of a baby during birth in 2008, the government-funded news agency said Friday.
A Colombian soldier held by Colombian rebels for more than 11 months was released Sunday.
Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental, one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. authorities said.
The death toll climbed to 16 Monday in the attack by heavily armed gunmen at a party in Mexico early Sunday, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
Haitians lack confidence that their government will be able to lead a multibillion-dollar earthquake recovery plan set to be hashed out Wednesday at an international donors’ conference at the United Nations.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom called for calm as a volcanic eruption spread ash over the capital, prompting evacuations and shutting down the city’s international airport.
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