A U.N. peacekeeper from Spain was killed Wednesday, along with two Israeli soldiers in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel that took place in southern Lebanon.
A week after the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a man who was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Jewish groups in Argentina have decided to boycott the government's Holocaust commemorations.
Mexico's attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam has stated he can now prove the fate of the 43 missing students who disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero last September.
Forensic experts involved in a nine-month search in the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in Madrid for the remains of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes may have just hit pay dirt; they believe they have finally come across the coffin belonging to the author of "Don Quixote."
It is almost impossible to imagine being a young person without Internet access these days, but until very recently, this was the case in Cuba, where home Internet connections are banned for all but a handful. Anyone who wants to go online is expected to pay what amounts to nearly a quarter of a month's salary for an hour of online use in government-run hotels and Internet centers. Most Cubans simply live offline, but a minority of islanders have secretly built a solution to their Internet problem.
The decapitated body of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez has been recovered. The journalist, who reported on political corruption and drug related violence for the weekly newspaper La Union in the town of Medellin de Bravo, had been missing for three weeks.
Damian Pachter, the Jewish journalist believed to have been first to break the news on the death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, has fled Argentina for Israel in fear for his life.
Greta Wienfeld Ferusic, who lives in Sarajevo now, had to yell her tattooed identification number A9233 out for 10 full months every morning for lineups at Auschwitz.
Throngs of Bolivians have taken to the streets of Sucre, Bolivia's capital, throwing flowers and dancing in a pagan joy to ring in the return of Ekeko, their 2,000-year-old pre-Columbian god of abundance and prosperity.
The Rev. Russell Moore, the man who leads the Southern Baptist's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is on a mission: He wants to bring leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination together along racial lines.
According to Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira the country's three most populous states are currently experiencing the worst drought since 1930.
Experts seeking out the remains of Miguel de Cervantes are considering the possibility that they are in the final phase of a truly quixotic nine-month quest to solve the mystery about where the Spanish poet, playwright and novelist was buried.
According to the Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, the Spanish National Police have arrested four suspect jihadists in the north African enclave of Ceuta who allegedly formed a terrorist cell.
In a regulatory filing on Friday, Ford announced it will record an $800 million pretax accounting charge in the fourth quarter after the Detroit-based car company decided to remove all Venezuelan operations from its consolidated earnings. The charge will effectively lower its 2014 fourth-quarter net income results by $700 million. Ford, the No. 2 U.S. automaker, is set to report its quarterly earnings this coming Thursday.
Andre Correa, Rio de Janeiro state's top environmental official, has acknowledged that Brazil's pledge of bringing down the levels of pollution flowing into the trash, raw sewage and debris-filled Guanabara Bay by 80 percent for the 2016 Summer Olympics is an unrealistic goal.
Economic "worries" prevail across Latin America according to an assessment by Alejandro Werner, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) director for the Western Hemisphere. Werner made this pronouncement two days after the economic organization closed its 2015 growth forecast.
