Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world’s most biologically diverse...

Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people, authorities said. Hundreds of soldiers, police and...

The world ranking for freedom of press in 175 countries as reported by French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), earlier this month, has some surprises. Brazil went up 11 slots and several Europeans countries like France and Italy are not as exemplary...

The police in Venezuela are involved in 20% of all crimes committed in the country. That startling admission was made by none other than the country’s interior minister, Tarek El-Aissami. For many Venezuelans, it was a surprisingly frank...

The rivals for Honduras’ presidency toned down hopes for an end to the nation’s political standoff despite an apparent breakthrough by negotiators who said they had reached consensus on ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s return to...

An intense fire broke out Sunday in a slum in South America’s largest city, sending residents running across rooftops to escape the flames. There were no immediate reports of deaths in Diogo Pires, a small shantytown in western Sao Paulo that is...

A GYMSLIP murderess aged just 17 was being held last night for knifing THIRTY men to death. The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when she was a 15-year-old. She told detectives she wanted to confess before...

In one murder after another, the “Canal Livre” crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim. Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show’s host, state legislator...

It’s hard to find a spare tire in Cuba these days, or a cup of yoghurt. Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and workers go without their government-subsidized lunches. Cuba has ordered austere energy...

currency, had its biggest weekly gain in almost two months on optimism the worst of the global recession is over. The real climbed 3.6% last week, the most since the period ended May 22, rising 0.3% to 1.9261 per US dollar on Friday. So far this year...