A Colombian soldier who had been held captive by the country's FARC militants was released on Sunday in an apparent goodwill gesture by the leftist guerilla.
Brazil, the largest South American and Portuguese-speaking country, has doubled the murder rate of its young in the past 20 years. Approximately 28 Brazilian children and adolescents are murdered every day.
American athletes may be used to topping the medal count at the Olympic Games, but it took no fewer than 21 years for the United States to finally triumph again at the International Math Olympiad.
Peru is seeing a very old debt resurface. The country issued 14 bonds to a U.S. guano consignment company almost 150 years ago in 1875 to pay off a debt. Now, an Illinois firm wants to cash in the money.
ISIS might be using chemical weapons in their mortar attacks against Kurds positioned in Iraq and Syria. Though ISIS' first alleged use of chemical substances, this is the first time it has been deployed via a projectile.
After spending more than two decades searching for the Loch Ness monster, Steve Feltham has come to conclude that the legendary creature is nothing more than a giant catfish.
Dutch investigators looking into the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine believe that a missile fired by pro-Russian militants was behind the July 2014 incident, which led to the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Four Cuban athletes participating in the Pan American Games held in Toronto have defected to the United States, the country's rowing coach revealed on Wednesday.
Federal agents are keeping a close eye out on Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's wife in California, since the drug lord escaped from a high security prison in Mexico days ago.
The U.S. Iran nuclear deal, which President Obama announced Tuesday, could add 1 million barrels of crude oil to global markets and bring gas prices in the U.S. down to $2 a gallon.
2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio wasted little time using the recent prison escape of infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to bash the Obama administration.
