Paola Mejía lives in one of Honduras' most disadvantaged communities, but that has not kept the 14-year-old from becoming an Internet sensation with her viral "How to be Poor" videos.
Just two weeks after over 8,000 people died when a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, another major earthquake has hit eastern Nepal, in the area near Mount Everest. One U.S. helicopter has gone missing, possibly downed due to fuel problems.
Migrants from Latin American has more than often been highlighted as the source for immigration in the U.S., but new research found China has surpassed Mexico as “the top sending county for immigrants to the U.S.”
In a precautionary move designed to assist authorities in Honduras in case of a hurricane disaster, the U.S. Marines have been scheduled to deploy to the Central American republic.
A corruption scandal in Guatemala that already cost the country's vice president her job is drawing even wider circles as the name of a sitting Supreme Court justice is mentioned in a wiretapped backdoor negotiation.
Mexico has put infant vaccinations on hold after two babies died and 29 were sickened when they were given injections against tuberculosis, rotavirus and Hepatitis B. The government is investigating the what caused the babies' death.
More than 1,000 people marched in Havana this weekend in what the Associated Press called a "colorful gay rights march" led by Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban leader Raúl Castro.
Dust particles in the Mars atmosphere create the blue sunset. More than three years after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched Curiosity to Mars, the rover has photographed its first sunset, reports the Washington Post.
A California couple who traveled to Mexico for a surrogate birth has been unable to obtain a local birth certificate for their newborn son, which has made it impossible for them to return the United States.
Police found and eight-year-old boy hidden in a suitcase at an airport on Thursday in an attempt to being smuggled across the border into Spanish territory in North Africa, Yahoo! News reports according to AFP.
Instructional videos that purport to show the extremes lengths pregnant women might have to go in order to terminate their pregnancy have been released online in Chile and have gained hundreds of thousands of views.
According to authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, drug cartel groups are responsible for a series of murders that have occurred in a disputed corridor along the U.S. border
In a startling act of political house cleaning, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced on Wednesday that she had asked all her Cabinet ministers to submit their resignations.
The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has just authorized the extradition of Leiver Padilla Mendoza, a man wanted in Venezuela for the murder of a Caracas politician named Robert Serra.
The Senate on Thursday prepared to hold a test vote on legislation allowing Congress to weigh in, and possibly reject, the nuclear deal the Obama administration is completing with Iran.
Despite the Governor of Puerto Rico signing an executive order to legalize medical marijuana this past Sunday, smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes will not be allowed in the U.S. territory.
Residents of Mexico City and the surrounding state of Mexico on Tuesday celebrated Cinco de Mayo with re-enactments of the 1862 Battle of Puebla - the origin of the holiday that celebrates Mexican culture.
