State-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced the discovery of an oil and natural gas accumulation in the Solimoes basin of Brazil's Amazon region.

The find was made during drilling of the Leste...

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has expressed anger over what his family has had to endure following the racial abuse allegedly suffered by his brother Anton Ferdinand at the hands of John...

Diana Sanchez Barrios, the first transsexual woman to seek a seat in Mexico City's municipal assembly, says she is confident of winning.

"This isn't a matter of transsexuality but of capability, and...

A statement issued Sunday from the National Police says Noriega had high blood pressure and apparently a brain hemorrhage. He was taken from the El Renacer prison to Hospital Santo Tomas in the...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday, although they added that the situation...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days ago.The local...

A Brazilian army vehicle patrols Paralela Avenue in Salvador. A police strike in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia sparked a wave of murders and other violence in the...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was taken from prison to a public hospital after suffering a possible stroke, the national police...

Army soldiers patrol Salvador, northeast Brazil, where the murder rate has climbed 129 per cent since a third of the state's police force went on...

POLICE in northern Mexico have found the decapitated bodies of two women with missing index fingers, a sign among drug gangs that they believed the victims were...

Dec. 11, 2011: Panama's former strongman Manuel Noriega gesturing while being carried in a wheelchair by a police officer inside El Renacer prison, on the outskirts of Panama...

Ivan Toledano was 1,600 miles from home and alone on the ice Saturday at the Fox Valley Ice Arena, awaiting one of hockey's greatest challenges. Crouched in front of the net, the young Mexican...

Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was taken from prison to a public hospital after suffering a possible stroke. Police said Noriega, 77, was moved from the...

SABANA DE LA MAR, Dominican Republic – Sixteen bodies have been recovered and 11 people have been rescued in waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from...

Former military leader of Panama Gen Manuel Noriega has been moved from his prison cell near Panama City to a hospital. Police said Noriega had hypertension, and had possibly had a stroke. Noriega,...

Panamanian police say former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega has been transported from prison to a hospital, possibly because of a stroke. A statement issued Sunday from the National Police says...

A policeman checks a coffin containing the remains of a victim at the Elupina Cordero Hospital in Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic, Sunday Feb. 5, 2012. According to authorities 15 bodies have...

PANAMA CITY (AFP) - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was hospitalized Sunday for what officials said was "hypertension with a possibility of a stroke," a police statement said.The...

Sunday, Jan. 22nd marked the 39th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, where the high court marked abortion as legal in every state in the U.S. However, nearly four decades after...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Around this time every year, millions of parents in California are working through the school enrollment process. Unfortunately, while many don’t have a choice regarding what...

Photo: Eldercare worker and union member Margaret Boyce speaks at rally in Trenton, N.J.WASHINGTON, D.C.--Rolanda Wade works as restorative aide and certified nursing assistant. To her patients, she...

"America is back," President Barack Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address. That sounds muscular, very Schwarzenegger-sque. But America’s new avatar is a little different...

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance at the launch of his memoirs in Havana. The 85-year-old was promoting ‘A Guerilla of Time’: a book that charts...

The Brazilian government has deployed the army in the northeastern state of Bahia where a police strike has sparked a wave of violence. Official figures suggest the murder rate has more than doubled...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A police strike in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia sparked a wave of murders and other violence in World Cup host-city Salvador, local media reported, just two weeks...

Caracas, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The foreign ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) agreed to meet in Cuba soon to assess decisions regarding the exclusion of the...

A Nukak Maku child in San Jos del Guaviare, Colombia: the nomadic community has been driven out of its territory by Farc guerillas. Photograph: William...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Last year, my grandson Rickey took his first steps into a transitional kindergarten classroom. When he was in preschool, Rickey, a fall baby with a November birthday, was among...

International matches in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this month will prepare the SA women's football team for the Cyprus Women's Cup, according to Banyana Banyana coach Joseph...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Residents who live near Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti will now be able to get fresh fruits and vegetables grown on local farms. As part of the Miami Dade County Health...