Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has called a "crisis cabinet" after yet another outbreak of brutal prison violence left at least 68 people dead on Saturday, according to statement from the president's office.
Researchers studying 15,000 birds in the Amazon rainforest found that nearly all of the birds' bodies have become lighter since the 1980s, losing on average about 2% of their body weight every decade.
Colombia's most-wanted drug lord Otoniel has been captured by authorities in what has been heralded as the biggest blow to the country's narcotics traffickers in decades.
A fire broke out on Saturday on containers on a cargo ship carrying mining chemicals off British Columbia, and the Canadian Coast Guard said it is working with the U.S. Coast Guard to assess the situation, including environmental hazards.
A skinny, bespectacled, left-leaning playwright whose works until recently were promoted by the government would seem an unlikely candidate to become Cuba's public enemy number one.
Bolivia's highlands city of La Paz has been hit by an unusual heatwave, with levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation soaring off the charts, exacerbated by unusually low levels of cloud cover some experts link to climate change.
Nicaragua's campaign to silence critics does not stop at its borders -- Costa Rican government sources and anecdotal evidence that agents of the Ortega regime have been stalking and threatening outspoken Nicaraguan exiles and, in some cases, are believed to have carried out physical violence abroad.
They've been called "a parody," "a sham," and "the worst possible conditions" for a vote, but Nicaragua's general elections went ahead this weekend anyway -- the first since a wave of popular demonstrations rattled the country in 2018.
The great-grandson of the legendary Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull has been confirmed as his closest living relative using an innovative new DNA technique applied to hair taken from the Native American leader's scalp lock.
Barbados has elected its first-ever president to replace Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state, in a decisive step toward shedding the Caribbean island's colonial past.
The leader of the gang that kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has threatened to kill them if he doesn't get what he wants, according to a video released Thursday.
Once one of the world's most powerful travel documents, the might of the United States passport has been diminished during the pandemic. With US Covid-19 cases now past the 32.4 million mark, some nations continue to view vacationers warily even as more Americans get vaccinated.
In Chile's dry Atacama Desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called "dark energy," a mysterious cosmic force thought to be driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Brazil is heading to the UN climate summit in Glasgow with ambitious environmental promises, including cutting emissions 50% and ending illegal deforestation entirely by 2030, as well as becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
A Brazilian commission investigating the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has called for criminal charges against President Jair Bolsonaro.