As Mexico’s mid-term elections have drawn near, the county has been awash in violence. Mayoral candidates as well as at least a dozen campaign workers or activists have been murdered and thousands of ballots have been burned.
"It's all about him. He's the star and he's going to put on the show. I am just the pilot," said Jockey Victor Espinoza of the Triple Crown contender, American Pharoah.
"And whatever makes him happy, that's going to be it. If he's not happy he's not going to perform. American Pharoah has to be in a good mood," Espinoza said at the unveiling of the commemorative original painting entitled "American Pharaoh" ("The Dream Team") by artist Susan Sommer-Luarca at KTCHN at The OUT Hotel in New York last week.
Anthony Dias, a banker has been playing the guitar for 20 years, belted out a total of six songs while the doctors performed surgery to remove his brain tumor.
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It was a historic match between the New York Cosmos and the Cuban national team. The Cosmos goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer admits to being a little emotional, especially during the playing of the National Anthem.
Would you die for sex? Two newly discovered marsupial species most definitely would, and do on a regular basis. Two new species have been discovered in Australia that have sex for 14 hours and then die because of it.
A former FIFA vice president from Trinidad and Tobago - one of the 14 high-ranking officials of the international soccer body whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of bribery and racketeering - has promised to prove a link between FIFA and attempted fraud in his nation's 2010 elections.
Authorities in El Salvador counted 635 homicides in May, making the month the single deadliest since the end of the Central American nation's civil war in 1992.
In an effort to deter violence directed at females, lawmakers in Colombia have this week passed a bill that would impose tough sentences for hate crimes against women.
If you grew up watching Sylvester Stallone's "Rocky" movies, then you know exactly what UFC Women's Bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey means when she says that her upcoming Aug. 1st, UFC 190 fight with Brazilian fighter Bethe Correia will be the "real woman version of MMA Rocky IV."
Arguably the best "Rocky" film, Rousey would be Rocky of course and Correia would be iron man Drago, "a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, who kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match." Like Rocky, who comes to the heart of Russia for several grueling boxing rounds of revenge, Rousey will be heading to South America to do the same, but on Brazilian soil.
A group of senators have introduced a bill to slow down the reopening of Cuba as the federal government inches closer to reestablishing ties. The senators, among them two presidential hopefuls, aim to restrict the flow of U.S. money into Cuba as restrictions become more lax.
The pregnant teenager's death has inspired protests against femicide in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and other Latin American regions. Thousands of people have marched to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires condemning violence against women.
The U.S. territory Puerto Rico, which has been in and out of recession since 2006 and is currently saddled with $72 billion in public debt, is preparing to overhaul public power company Electric Energy Authority.
The United States treasury department has released a statement on Monday in which they have officially designated the Peruvian Maoist rebel group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) as a "significant foreign narcotics trafficker."
Miguel Angel Luna, a Mexican congressional candidate and former mayor of Valle de Chalcowas, has become the eighth politician to be murdered before the upcoming midterm elections which, take place this Sunday.
