An advocate for child actors wants a judge to appoint a guardian to oversee the interests of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets if they are featured in TV shows, Internet...

A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...

A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism “superstitious nonsense” during a...

The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...

A federal judge has ruled that a history teacher at a Southern California public high school violated the First Amendment when he called creationism...

Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez says he missed Sunday’s tribute to folk music legend Pete Seeger because U.S. authorities failed to approve his visa in time.

Police say they found 11 bodies dumped around a southern Mexican state, including seven wrapped in plastic bags and thrown off a bridge.

Sixteen Venezuelan soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed Sunday near the Colombian border, the state news agency reported. A brigadier...

Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli won Panama’s presidential elections in a landslide Sunday, promising to guide the country through the world...

Seventeen Venezuelan soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed Sunday near the Colombian border, the state news agency reported. A...

President Hugo Chavez says 18 soldiers have died in a helicopter crash near Venezuela’s border with Colombia.

Seismologists are reporting a strong but deeply centered earthquake in Guatemala.

Colombia’s social protection minister says a case of swine flu has been confirmed in the Andean nation. It is the first confirmed case in South America

A conservative supermarket magnate is favored to win presidential elections Sunday that will determine who will oversee the completion of the expansion of the Panama...

President Hugo Chavez met with a delegation from Iran on Saturday to prepare for an upcoming visit from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad _ an alliance that has provoked...

Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the “Theater of the Oppressed,” died Saturday. He was...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Bolivia’s Evo Morales said Saturday they hope their countries are on the road to repairing badly strained relations.

Officials say floods and mudslides from heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least 14 people in the last month and driven tens of thousands from their...

Costa Rica is reporting its first confirmed swine flu case _ and the first flu case in Latin America outside Mexico.

President Hugo Chavez on Friday condemned a U.S. report that alleges Venezuela fails to cooperate in fighting terrorism and called on President Barack Obama to end the...