Rumors that General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship might have had a hand in the death of poet Pablo Neruda were substantiated by the Chilean government on Thursday.
In the Galician town of As Pontes, a municipality of north-west Spain, a festival intended to celebrate a leafy green vegetable known as the grelo has been promoting itself as a “clitoris festival.”
In an effort to possibly find clues regarding what happened to the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College who went missing in 2014, Mexican forensic experts have gone to town of Carrizalillo to examine human remains discovered in several mass graves.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday put his trademark moustache on the line as he promised to deliver the millionth public housing unit before the end of the year.
Russia and Egypt have dismissed claims from U.S. and U.K. officials that a bomb was the likely cause of the Metrojet plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, calling it "speculation."
Giant travel booking site Expedia Inc. is confirmed to be purchasing the leading rental marketplace HomeAway. On Wednesday, the two companies announced their partnership that involved a whopping $3.9 billion.
In time for the release of a film based upon their harrowing experiences, nine of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in a mine for 69 days back in 2010, are suing their lawyers.
Chile has begun to conduct a large-scale military drill near its northern border with Bolivia and Peru, and the war games are raising tensions between the three South American neighbors that continue to face unresolved issues regarding their common frontiers.
With the death toll from Friday Night's fire at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania rising to 32, some 20,000 people rallied on the streets of the capital asking for justice and urging their leaders to resign from their positions.
Sprint announced this week that it has signed an agreement to introduce wireless roaming in Cuba. As the hermetic island nation continues to open itself to U.S. trade and commerce, Sprint's deal with Cuba's state-run telecommunications company marks a historic first, as well as a smart move by Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure.
Colombia's second-largest left wing terrorist group, the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional), has reached out for help mediating with President Juan Manuel Santos
Mexico may soon decriminalize the recreational use of marijuana, which would not only affect the war of drugs but allow for an easier access to medicinal marijuana.
The former Venezuelan prosecutor who helped convict Leopoldo López on what he later said were "sham" charges is calling on the Obama administration to sanction other officials involved in the trial that ended in a prison sentence of almost 14 years for the opposition leader.
