A group of elderly-care nurses in Sweden have commenced experimenting with a six-hour work day that many there hope could soon have widespread impact for workers across that region.
The Obama Administration announced that it will ease its restrictions on business and travel to Cuba in an effort to mend its severed ties with the communist country.
A Venezuelan fighter jet crashed on Friday near the Colombian border. The fate of the two pilots aboard the Russian-made aircraft was not immediately clear.
"Sexual rights" is the term the U.S. government plans to use to refer the prerogatives of people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, the State Department announced in remarks made to a United Nations panel.
A high-ranking drug cartel member linked to last year's disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico's Guerrero state has been taken into custody, Mexican authorities said on Thursday.
Attorney General Arely Gómez revealed that tests done at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria had determined that a bone fragment belonged to a student named Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz.
Saudi authorities have determined that the Saudi Binladen Group, a multinational construction conglomerate, is partially responsible for a crane collapse that killed 107 people at the Grand Mosque in Mecca
The leaders of Venezuela and Colombia finally to set a date for a bilateral meeting on their nation's border crisis, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced.
Watch: 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Chile, Tsunami Warning Issued [Videos] A very powerful earthquake hit Chile's northern coast on Wednesday night.
More than 4 in 10 Colombians fear that their country's border crisis with Venezuela may eventually lead to a war between the two South American neighbors.
It now looks as the former first lady will stand against Morales in a presidential run-off election in October. As reported by the BBC the electoral authorities have ruled that Torres was runner-up in the first round of the election, narrowly beating out Baldizon.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad can continue to count on military support from Moscow, as Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted the aid was needed "to counter terrorist aggression."
Soon after his nation is graced by a papal visit, Cuban President Raul Castro will be on his way to the United States to speak at the U.N. General Assembly.
Mexico has confirmed that eight of its citizens were killed over the weekend, when Egyptian armed forces attacked a dozen tourists, taking them for terrorists.
North Korea said on Tuesday that it was ready to use nuclear weapons against the United States and announced that it has restarted operations at its atomic bomb fuel production plants.
