The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was lit in a ceremony at the ancient Greek site of Olympia on Thursday, less than four months ahead of the games’ opening ceremony.
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti has risen to more than 150 confirmed deaths, according to health officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
An Olympic security plan five years in the making is taking shape in Vancouver this week.
Israeli rescuers pulled a 22-year-old man from the ruins of a three-story building on Friday — 10 days after the massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people.
Move over Chile, Brazil has the world’s largest Lego tower.
A Colombian rebel group is expected to release three hostages Sunday — one more than previously announced — according to a former senator who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them.
Survivors and heirs of Mexican Indian villagers who were killed in a massacre in 1997 have filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, accusing him of crimes against humanity.
Search conditions were favorable Tuesday as U.S. and Mexican authorities scoured the sea for several people missing after a tourist boat capsized Sunday off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Colombia on Friday as it rejected Colombia’s assertion that Colombian rebels are living in Venezuela.
Teams of rescuers in Haiti’s capital rushed to the city’s Caribbean Market on Tuesday after a machine used to clear rubble caused a secondary collapse, trapping at least one Haitian in the rubble.
Most of the 33 recently rescued miners in Chile may be released from the hospital Thursday afternoon, a hospital official said.
A mine explosion has killed several people and trapped others in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, local officials and the government radio service reported Wednesday.
One month after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, the enormity of the country’s damage is clear. The numbers tell stories of death and destruction, as well as a global outpouring of aid.
Steel tubing has begun to be placed to reinforce the path that connects the 33 miners trapped in Chile to the surface, the final step before the extraction of the miners can begin, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Sunday.
A preliminary hearing for Joran van der Sloot in Peru was postponed for a week Wednesday, according to Ricardo Flores, the father of the young woman van der Sloot is accused of killing.
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