Construction on Nicaragua's proposed transoceanic canal will not begin until at least March as the $50 billion project's financial and environmental footing is coming under increasing scrutiny.
The Pentagon on Sunday promised a full investigation of a suspected U.S. air strike that killed 22 people in an Afghan hospital run by the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Edward Snowden has not been offered a plea deal by U.S. authorities, even though then-Attorney General Eric Holder said earlier this year that the National Security Agency (NSA) leaker had "spurred a necessary debate" and that a deal was in the realm of the possible.
President Barack Obama is deliberately delaying his consent for Venezuela's proposed new ambassador in Washington, the country's embattled leader Nicolás Maduro complained on Sunday.
Lionel Messi's brother, Matias, was reportedly arrested for possessing an illegal firearm. Lionel Messi's brother, Matias, was reportedly arrested for possessing an illegal firearm.
North Korea released a New York University student Joo-Won Moon on Monday, six months after detaining him for crossing the country's border from China.
A high-ranking Venezuelan government official has accused the U.S. government of trying to "provoke and inconvenience" him, after he was stopped at a Mexican airport on Saturday.
ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, destroyed another ancient landmark in the city of Palmyra, Syria, the latest monument to fall prey to the group's destruction.
Queen Elizabeth is reportedly forcing Prince William and Kate Middleton to have more joint public engagements and to show a united front when together.
On Friday thousands of masked protesters who gathered in Mexico City to commemorate the 47th anniversary of a student massacre that took place 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in 1968, fought with riot police.
Thursday’s landslide in Guatemala has so far led to 73 deaths. Thursday’s landslide in Guatemala has so far led to 73 deaths. The BBC reports that aside from the people that were killed when a hillside collapsed on houses in the village of El Cambray, 350 people are still considered missing.
A Colombian drug lord who long dominated a historically lawless area near the country's border with Venezuela was killed on Thursday in a ground and air attack, local officials announced.
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe this week voiced his strong opposition to the tentative agreement his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, has struck with the country's leftist guerillas.
The United States and Cuba this week conducted a second round of talks on matters of civil aviation, but it remains unclear when regularly scheduled flights between the countries might finally be able to take off.
As they increase their efforts to track down former spymaster Antonio Stiuso, the Argentine government has warned the United States that their perceived reluctance to help locate the fugitive is jeopardizing their relationship with the Latin American nation.
Pope Francis' meeting with Kim Davis should not be misinterpreted as a papal endorsement of the Kentucky county clerk's refusal to apply the law and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the Holy See insisted on Friday.
