Latin America is forecasted to be "the world's highest proportion of professional working women of 2025," Mercer, a consulting firm, reported Wednesday, Jan. 27. The country's rate for women's representation in the workforce is projected to increase from 36 percent in 2015 to 49 percent after a decade.
In light of the Zika virus outbreak in several countries, two U.S. airline giants -- United Airlines and American Airlines -- have announced their offer of refunds for traveling pregnant women going to Zika virus-infested countries, Fox News Latino reports.
Added sugar consumption has increased by more than 30 percent over three decades in the United States. Thus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is contemplating a new food label that details the amount of added sugar in foods.
A new high-rise hotel will soon be opening its doors to the people in Miami as a Spanish-owned international hotel from the Melia group of hotels recently announced its interest to open their business in the artsy and modern district in Miami, the Miami Herald reports.
Colombia’s Ombudsman Jorge Armando Otálora is currently in the middle of sexual harassment scandal that caused a major uproar in the nation. The accusations came after Otálora’s former personal secretary Astrid Helena Cristancho revealed the “abusive relationship” on Semana.
Researchers from Uganda are saying that the Zika virus is not considered a threat in Africa despite the mosquito-borne disease originating in the continent, per the Associated Press. The virus was first discovered in a monkey back in 1947 and was named after the Zika forest located near Uganda's capital city of Kampala.
Oregon State University's Reser Stadium was under renovation as part of its expansion project when the construction crew accidently dug up bones of a 10,000-year-old mammoth and other ice age mammals. The remains were excavated in the north end zone of the stadium last Monday, but it's not a big surprise to find these kinds of extinct animals in the area as the Willamette Valley was once home to thousands of mammoths, per OSU's website.
Mexico's highest court on Jan. 26 legalized same-sex marriage in Jalisco state, which is home to more than 7 million inhabitants and contains the country's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
When you think of online piracy, the first image that comes to mind is probably of American teenagers in their dorm rooms, bittorrenting Hollywood movies. "Widespread" piracy, meanwhile, perhaps connotes a visual of bootleg DVDs being hawked on the streets of Shanghai. But perhaps it'd be more accurate to think of an average Chilean family sitting down to watch TV.
The Zika outbreak continues to cause concern around the globe, as an expert decried the lack of information on the virus available in Venezuela. Meanwhile, a Danish hospital confirmed that a tourist had been infected with the disease after visiting southern and central America.
