Yasuni National Park in Ecuador’s Amazon region is thought of as the most biologically diverse forest in the world.
Heavy rain that has killed at least 60 people in Central America is not expected to let up soon, authorities said Monday.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile early Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A Maryland man who was arrested in Aruba in connection with the case of a missing American woman is expected to be transferred to a prison Tuesday after a judge ruled there was enough evidence to hold him in custody for 16 more days.
Retired army Gen. Otto Perez Molina was sworn in as Guatemala’s president Saturday, pledging to take a tough stand on crime amid growing insecurity in the Central American nation.
Bermuda, which hasn’t seen a major hurricane in some seven years, is about to get walloped by Igor, which forecasters termed large and dangerous Saturday night.
Military choppers are on standby to swoop into the heliport. Motorcycle police are on alert to escort a fleet of ambulances. And a throng of electric beds with crisp white sheets stand vacant and ready.
The nearly 100 children living at an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, are hungry and thirsty, and desperately waiting for aid, a member of the orphan’s foundation told CNN on Saturday.
A noon shootout left six police officers and a civilian dead on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, city officials said.
Trapped beneath his collapsed home in Port-au-Prince, rescuers had to amputate Georges Exantus’ right leg in order to free him.
At least 59 people have been killed in and around the region of Mexico’s richest city, Monterrey, since the start of 2011, according to a tally kept by officials at the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, a spokesman told CNN Tuesday.
A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting new misery on the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
Authorities in the Mexican city of Santiago have confirmed that four banners were left recently at various schools with threatening messages. The banners were anonymous, but local officials think organized crime is responsible.
Three children were killed Wednesday night by a group of armed men who were looking for the father of two of the girls, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said Thursday.
Two city officials in Monterrey, Mexico, were kidnapped on Sunday and Monday, respectively, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
Two members of the U.S. Olympic delegation — both gold medalists from previous Olympics — suffered minor injuries Sunday in an accident as they were traveling in Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade, the White House said.
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