Police in western Belgium stormed an apartment on Monday after reports that gunmen had taken a hostage in the city of Ghent. No one was hurt in the operation, and three men have been arrested.
After several delays in hearings, the Liberian Supreme Court decided Saturday to refuse to halt Senate elections scheduled for Tuesday, according to the The New York Times. A petition had been filed to halt the vote because of the Ebola crisis.
According to a statement released on Sunday, Spanish police have arrested four people suspected of carrying out a cyberattack that cost a media website $530, 600 and stopped it from working for three weeks in October 2013. The Spanish news website prnoticias asserts the cyberattacks were organized by a former director of a rival news outlet called Intereconomia.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist who might be best known outside of Latin American politics for calling Israel a terrorist state and kicking a soccer ball around with Oliver Stone while the two men chewed on coca leaves, thinks that too many of the men serving in his army are out of shape. After taking in their leader's complaints about the fatness of Bolivia's finest, security forces have begun to register all of their overweight members.
After a marathon discussion that ran a total of about 30 hours, all countries in the United Nations have agreed to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but that deal is wrought with noncommittal language and lacks any real oversight.
A missing 11-month-old Houston baby boy was found alive in Mexico on Friday, four days after his mother's body was found stuffed into a refrigerator in the family's apartment
According to the Panorama Laboral de América Latina y el Caribe 2014, the urban unemployment rate for the region may in 2015 go to as high as 6.3 percent.
A new phenomena in Venezuela is leading girls as young as 12 to get cosmetic surgeries like butt lifts and nose jobs under their parents' supervision in order to look more like beauty queens.
Dutch government refuses to turn over Malaysia Airlines MH17 investigation to United Nations The Dutch government has refused to turn over the investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to the United Nations.
Mexico’s finance minister Luis Videgaray has announced on national television that though he is willing to submit to an independent investigation to probe the methods by which he acquired his home, he will neither sell his home or step down from his position.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has released new information claiming the Bush administration misled the American people in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
As protests over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown continue across the country, Mexicans living in New York and Los Angeles have been protesting the missing 43 students disappeared by local police in Iguala. This weekend, the two groups will march together to demand an end to human rights violations by the state against their own people.
The daughter of Korean Air's chairman resigned from her remaining posts with the carrier Friday and apologized for what global media have dubbed her "nut rage" scandal. Cho Hyun-ah had a plane returned to the gate in New York on Dec. 5 after a flight attendant in first class offered her macadamia nuts in a bag, not on a plate.
