Mexican television channel Televisa is planning a remake of "Simplemente María," the successful telenovela it produced from 1989 to 1990, and has apparently cast actress Maite Perroni in the role of María López de Carreño.
Rumor had it that the January breakup between Cristiano Ronaldo and Irina Shayk came because the Russian supermodel had a fallout with the Portuguese soccer star's relatives. And harsh new comments from Ronaldo's oldest sister, Elma Aveiro, seem to indicate that there may, in fact, be some bad blood between the families.
The 20th season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" started Monday night with what USA Today sarcastically dubbed a "surprise": "Some of the celebs can actually dance!" the newspaper judged.
The latest round of talks between U.S. and Cuban negotiators ended after just one day on Tuesday, and participants did not disclose how much progress they had made in their attempt to restore diplomatic relations between Havana and Washington.
Vice President Joe Biden hopes to reduce nationwide rape kit testing backlogs with a $41 million budget proposal that continues a sexual assault initiative. Accompanied by outgoing Sen. Barbara Mikulski, he told advocates that the Obama administration is committed to increasing funding to help clear the backlog.
"Amores con trampa," Emilio Larrosa's hotly anticipated new telenovela, which premiered on March 2 on Televisa, "is a very complete story in the sense that it deals with family, the countryside, the city," according to its producer.
Ángel González, the Mexican man who was released last week after he spent 20 years in an Illinois prison due to a wrongful conviction, told the "Hora 21" TV program that Latino inmates have the hardest time in American penitentiaries.
March 17 is finally here, and if you are lucky enough to spend St. Patrick's Day in Boston, you will have the difficult task of choosing from a large number of festivities today.
Gay groups were finally welcome at Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday after as organizers had decided to lift a ban that had shut them out for decades. This year, the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council invited Boston Pride and OutVets to join in the festivities.
Enrique Iglesias apparently liked what he heard after he had invited a fan to sing the final notes to one of his tunes at a concert in Puerto Rico. And the Spanish singer is also committed to making sure that gifted young musicians will be able to follow in his footsteps.
Two weeks after regulators closed Puerto Rico's Doral Bank, the financial institution's parent company, Doral Financial Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took the the streets on Sunday in more than 150 Brazilian cities to demand the ouster of Dilma Rousseff, the country's recently re-elected president. The demonstrations followed popular outrage over a sprawling corruption scheme.
"Nuestra Belleza Latina" head judge Osmel Sousa had sounded the alarm last week, and in the end, Lisandra Silva and Cynthia Pérez were both sent home in Sunday's emotional episode of the Univisión show.
Rogelio Contreras Rivera, a 20-year-old musician belonging to the group "Los Kumbiamberos RS," was killed in the night from Saturday to Sunday after several men kidnapped him from the stage of a Monterrey bar where the band was performing.
Gate guards at a U.S. Air Force base in central Georgia are once again allowed to wish personnel and visitors a "blessed day" as they enter the facility. Commanders at Robins Air Force Base had previously forbidden the greeting after an unidentified airman complained about its religious nature.
Ten days ago, it looked as though Jesús "Chuy" García had a good shot at becoming Chicago's first Latino mayor. But incumbent Rahm Emanuel is now ahead of the Cook County commissioner by a double-digit lead. In a Chicago Tribune poll 51 percent of likely voters said they would vote for Emanuel; 37 percent support García.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday made little effort to hide his unease over a ban of the terms "climate change" or "global warming" at Florida's Department of Environmental Protection. The top diplomat made a "non-so-subtle dig" at Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the Associated Press judged.
NASA is on a mission to study what the Associated Press called "the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun's magnetic fields" and launched four identical spacecraft on Thursday to explore a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection.
Two big Hollywood stars made headlines this week not because of their latest projects but because they showed just how much they care about their respective communities. "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. presented a 7-year-old boy with a bionic arm, while two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks helped Girl Scouts sell cookies.
Mexican actress Angelique Boyer is saying goodbye to photo shoots in the nude. The 26-year-old telenovela star had taken off her clothes in 2008 for the Mexican men's magazine "H Para Hombres," known for its revealing spreads featuring popular actresses, singers and models.
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo was the special guest at the Los Angeles Lakers' pre-game show on Tuesday night, and "The Book of Life" star used the occasion to reveal her very own basketball "dream team."
American actor Johnny Depp over the weekend suffered an injury in Australia, where the 51-year-old is filming "Dead Men Tell No Tales," the fifth installment of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
The movie adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey" has proved to be a commercial success, and lead actors Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan will likely be asking for a seven-figure pay raise before they embark on filming the planned two sequels.
Colombia's military will halt bombing raids against the FARC as Bogotá continues peace talks with the leftist guerilla. President Juan Manuel Santos said he had made the decision in response to commitments kept by the rebels.
Relations between the United States and Cuba may have warmed since the two countries announced plans to restore full diplomatic ties in December, but Havana did not hold back on Tuesday when it called new U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, its closest ally, "arbitrary and aggressive,"
