La modernidad comienza a gestarse junto con la era de los grandes descubrimientos, entre ellos el de América, que cambian la percepción que el hombre tiene del mundo, confirmando lo que los sabios de la época venían pregonando. Es la era...

Hoy, 26 de junio, se cumplen 100 años del nacimiento de Salvador Allende. Un nombre cuya huella no sólo dejó su impronta en la historia de Chile, sino también en el imaginario político del mundo contemporáneo. Los 100 años de Allende no...

The world’s top Nazi-hunter says he’s made progress in finding 94-year-old “Doctor Death,” a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in...

A man who was arrested for climbing to the roof of a gas station to sing a song protesting high gasoline prices says he will plead guilty to a trespassing charge.

A red stream of lava flowed down the flanks of the Llaima volcano in southern Chile on Tuesday and officials said they evacuated about a dozen people.

Nicolas Massu of Chile, who won gold medals in singles and doubles at the 2004 Olympics, was among 12 players given special places Monday in singles at the 2008 event at...

A judge says he has imposed two sentences of life in prison on the security chief for former dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The International Whaling Commission ended its annual conference on Friday, leaving all the tough work on expanding or restricting whale hunting still ahead of it.

Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the sunless sea bottom vents in the...

The six-week eruption of a volcano in southern Chile has regained strength with bursts of thick gas, seismic rumblings and the emergence of two new craters.