The egalitarian wage system Fidel Castro spent decades building in Cuba is no longer viable, plagued by low pay, corruption and waste that can be eased by paying workers more for better work, a top labor official said in an interview published Wednesday.
Canadian diplomats and the military should open talks with the Taliban if they think negotiations can effectively shorten what may otherwise be a "very long" war in Afghanistan, said a Senate report released Wednesday.
Flight attendant Sheela Joshi is 5 feet, 4 inches and 148 pounds.
Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half-ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday Wednesday with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his own two feet to get married.
Argentine farmers are planning their next move after the country's president announced plans to fund a public works program with revenues from a controversial agrarian export tax.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a public apology Wednesday to Canadian Indians who decades ago were taken from their families and forced to attend state-funded Christian schools aimed at stripping them of their aboriginal culture.
Colombia has detained a Venezuelan soldier found with thousands of rounds of ammunition of the kind favored by leftist rebels in Colombia, Venezuelan authorities admitted.
Colombian troops were so close to rebel-held U.S. hostages they could hear them speaking, but lost them before they could be rescued, the defense minister said Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is mocking critics who question his close relationship with Iran by showing off what he jokingly calls an "atomic bicycle."
Leftist rebels in Colombia should release all hostages in their custody as a first step toward laying down their weapons, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday.
The egalitarian wage system Fidel Castro spent decades building in Cuba is no longer viable, plagued by low pay, corruption and waste that can be eased by paying workers more for better work, a top labor official said in an interview published Wednesday.
Canadian diplomats and the military should open talks with the Taliban if they think negotiations can effectively shorten what may otherwise be a "very long" war in Afghanistan, said a Senate report released Wednesday.
Flight attendant Sheela Joshi is 5 feet, 4 inches and 148 pounds.
Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half-ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday Wednesday with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his own two feet to get married.
Argentine farmers are planning their next move after the country's president announced plans to fund a public works program with revenues from a controversial agrarian export tax.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a public apology Wednesday to Canadian Indians who decades ago were taken from their families and forced to attend state-funded Christian schools aimed at stripping them of their aboriginal culture.
Colombia has detained a Venezuelan soldier found with thousands of rounds of ammunition of the kind favored by leftist rebels in Colombia, Venezuelan authorities admitted.
Colombian troops were so close to rebel-held U.S. hostages they could hear them speaking, but lost them before they could be rescued, the defense minister said Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is mocking critics who question his close relationship with Iran by showing off what he jokingly calls an "atomic bicycle."
Leftist rebels in Colombia should release all hostages in their custody as a first step toward laying down their weapons, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday.
Argentina, one of the world's biggest breadbaskets, should be rolling in cash, as world food prices soar.
Mirina Kakalanos has been forced to double prices at her family's shoe store in the last year. Customers turn away after browsing the pumps and sandals, but Kakalanos says she has no choice.
Transmitters will be attached to sharks off the Pacific coast so scientists can monitor their behavior after three surfers were attacked, a Mexican official said.
The military expects a confrontational hearing when the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four alleged confederates are brought before a Marine colonel presiding over their war-crimes tribunal.
Disagreements between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes flared up Wednesday as drivers used their trucks to snarl traffic.
Flash flooding in Belize killed at least four people and left two others missing, victims of twin tropical storms that pummeled the small country over the weekend.
British Columbia's attorney general has ordered a third investigation into the Canadian branch of a polygamous sect -- even though the first two such efforts failed over questions about whether polygamy is illegal in Canada.
A car plowed into a weekend bike race along a highway near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others, police said.
Most U.S. senators acknowledge that climate change poses a major environmental threat, but getting agreement on how to deal with it is another matter.
Forensic teams have exhumed 60 bodies from what is thought to be the largest mass grave from the Peruvian government's bloody war against Maoist insurgents.
People in two Bolivian states celebrated what they viewed as a victory Sunday night in referendums on autonomy from the central government.
Bolivians in two opposition-controlled states voted Sunday on autonomy referendums that aim to insulate a wide swath of the country's eastern flatlands from President Evo Morales' populist reforms.
Tropical Storm Arthur weakened to a tropical depression Sunday after soaking the Yucatan Peninsula but still threatened to cause flooding and mudslides in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.
Pro-government peasant groups are being blamed for burning dozens of ballot boxes Sunday in Bolivia's largest state of Santa Cruz, where voters are casting their ballots in an autonomy referendum.
Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2008 Atlantic season, formed Saturday near the coast of Belize, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Five people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway into an adjoining street, crushing three vehicles and splitting into three sections before resting a few feet from a house, officials said.
Farmers on Friday moved quickly to reject President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's tax concessions made a day earlier.
Tropical Storm Alma lashed the coast of Central America with heavy rains and high winds on Thursday after becoming the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season.
Seven people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway and traveled into an adjoining street, where it crushed three vehicles and cracked into three sections before coming to a halt a few feet from a house, officials said.
Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world.
Tropical Storm Alma has weakened to a depression and swept across Honduras, dumping rain and leaving roofless homes and flooded streets in its wake.
The National Indian Foundation says one of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border.
A helicopter crashed into a building in Panama City on Thursday, killing 11 of the 12 people aboard, including Chile's federal police chief, a Panamanian government official said.
Chile's national police chief and 10 other visiting Chileans were killed Thursday when their aging Panamanian government helicopter crashed into a three-story building in Panama City.
Seven federal police officers were killed Tuesday in northwest Mexico in the latest in a series of drug-related violence, a spokesman for the federal police said.
Flooding in central Colombia has left at least 14 people dead, 100 injured and 100,000 homeless over the past week, officials said Wednesday.
Argentine farm groups went on strike Wednesday for the third time in nearly three months to protest high export taxes.
No one could remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen.
French parachutist Michel Fournier vowed Tuesday to try again to launch a record-breaking skydive in August, hours after a "freak" accident over Canada aborted his second attempt to do so.
The boy looked to be about 12 or 13 years old. Chubby, he struggled a bit with his bicycle as he rode to where we stood. He had a slight smirk as he played a tape that blared music from speakers tied to his bike.
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish -- 6,000 tons of them -- threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
French skydiver Michel Fournier's bid for a record-breaking parachute jump from Earth's stratosphere was aborted Tuesday when the balloon that was to carry him into the far reaches of the sky slipped away from his flight crew.
Nearly 100 former Chilean soldiers and secret police will be prosecuted on charges they tried to cover up the disappearance and deaths of 119 people during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, a judge ordered Monday.
Brazil on Monday announced plans to spend at least $5 billion to develop deep water oil finds, building new ships and hiring rigs as soaring world fuel prices boost demand for drilling equipment.
Relatives and friends of the hundreds of men and women held hostage in the jungles of Colombia held out hope for their release now that the leader of the country's largest leftist guerilla group is dead.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday that the country's foreign minister has resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location.
Carmen Salva's mission may be ambitious, but her belief is simple: "It's never too early to start caring for the land you live in and grow up in."
The leader of Colombia's largest leftist rebel group has died, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said Sunday.
The leader of Colombia's largest leftist rebel group has died, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said Sunday.
A moderate earthquake shook the Colombian capital Saturday afternoon, killing at least six people and injuring more than 10.
The streets of Ciudad Juarez are empty after police became aware of an e-mail warning that this weekend will be "the bloodiest" in the Mexican border city.
Hundreds of Amazon Indians capped a five-day protest against the construction of a multibillion-dollar dam by swimming in the river they say it will destroy.
Canada's government violated the constitution by giving U.S. officials the results of interviews conducted with a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison, Canada's top court said, ruling the former child soldier has the right to partial access to documents in preparing a defense.
A Colombian prosecutor called Thursday for an investigation into 12 people for alleged ties to a leftist rebel group.
A U.S. soldier who deserted to Canada will not face persecution if he returns to the United States, Canada's refugee agency ruled Wednesday.
Five masked gunmen invaded a U.S. Virgin Islands hospital before dawn Wednesday and killed a patient who was recovering from gunshot wounds, a police spokeswoman said.
Ecuador's state oil company president resigned Tuesday for failing to halt a steady decline in production.
Twenty Cubans want to head to the United States after taking a fiberglass boat to Honduras.
A donkey is doing time in southern Mexico for assault and battery.
The bodies of four people, including at least one American, were found in the Mexican state of Baja California on Sunday, police said Monday, part of a wave of violence sweeping the country.
The commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's Force 47 told reporters in Bogota Monday -- a day after surrendering -- that "the solution is not through war. There must be dialogue."
Cuban officials on Monday accused the top U.S. diplomat in Havana of delivering private funds from American groups opposed to Fidel Castro to dissidents in Cuba.
A U.S. anti-drug aircraft strayed into Venezuelan airspace Saturday night, the United States acknowledged Monday, ratcheting up tensions between the two nations.
Venezuela's foreign minister said the U.S. ambassador will be summoned to explain an alleged incursion by a U.S. military plane in Venezuelan airspace.
A senior rebel leader in Colombia surrendered Sunday -- the latest major blow for insurgents who have waged war against the Colombian state for 40 years.
Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez, who led the island nation out of dire economic times, was re-elected to a third term on Saturday, according to election results.
President Leonel Fernandez declared victory early Saturday in the Dominican Republic's national election and pledged to continue pushing forward economic projects that have helped pull the Caribbean nation's economy out of crisis.
President Leonel Fernandez declared victory early Saturday in the Dominican Republic's national election and pledged to continue pushing forward economic projects that have helped pull the island nation's economy out of crisis.
With more than 10 percent of the polling stations reporting their results late Friday, President Leonel Fernandez was leading the Dominican Republic's presidential election with more than 53 percent, an elections official said.
Colombia did not alter computer files that it claims show Venezuelan support for a leftist rebel group, the international police organization Interpol said Thursday.
As Dominicans prepare to vote Friday for president, polls indicate strong support for incumbent Leonel Fernandez who rescued a flagging economy over the last four years.
An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.
The Colombian government sent 14 suspected paramilitary leaders to the United States on drug charges Tuesday after authorities said they violated a 2003 deal with the government.
Bolivia's president Monday set August 10 as the date for a vote of confidence he predicts will give him a new mandate and strengthen his hand against movements for autonomy in several states.
A military judge's ruling that a Pentagon lawyer improperly pressured prosecutors could hurt efforts to try top al Qaeda suspects held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, a defense lawyer said Monday.
There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth -- a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie.
An overloaded ferry capsized off the coast of southern Haiti, killing at least 11 people, U.N. and Haitian authorities said Sunday.
A passenger train was placed under quarantine Friday in northern Ontario after an undetermined illness left one woman dead and at least 10 other people sick.
A Canadian train quarantined after a passenger died Thursday will soon be on its way again, Ontario's top medical officer told reporters.
The commander of Mexico City's investigative police force was shot and killed Friday morning as he left his home, authorities said.
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday he supports a congressional decision to hold a referendum on whether he and his administration should remain in power amid a move for autonomy that he opposes.
Mexico's federal police chief was shot to death early Thursday in a northwestern Mexico City neighborhood, the country's public safety department said.
Nearly a week after a volcano erupted in Chaiten, Chile, disgorging its contents across a wide area of the Andes Mountains, authorities finished evacuating the area most affected.
Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast.
Police and soldiers are forcefully removing some 130 people who have refused to leave the area around the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile.
Farmers in Argentina decided Wednesday to resume a strike that cut exports, blocked roads and emptied store shelves last month.
A Brazilian rancher convicted of orchestrating the 2005 killing of an American nun has been acquitted after a witness contradicted his own testimony.
A Cuban woman who has gained worldwide acclaim with a blog that voices stinging criticism of the Havana government received a major journalism award Wednesday, and said it gave her a "small protective shield" to keep pressing for democracy in her country.
President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island.
Colombia extradited one of the country's most feared paramilitary warlords to the United States early Wednesday to face drug-trafficking charges, the government said.
Chile's Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to issue an evacuation order for the more than 200 people who remained in the town of Chaiten, emergency officials said.
Rescue workers found the wreckage of a small plane that went missing four days ago off Brazil's northeastern coast with four British businessmen and two local pilots, British officials said Tuesday.
Officials say rescue workers have found the bodies of four more passengers of the ferryboat that sank in a remote Amazon region in northern Brazil. The discovery raises the death toll to 21.
Spanish police say they have recovered more than 700 pieces of pre-Columbian art of "incalculable value" allegedly plundered and taken from South American countries to be sold in Europe.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has renewed calls for negotiations with the governors of states considering autonomy.
A boat ferrying at least 80 people home from a party sank in Brazil's Amazon region early Sunday, killing at least 15 and leaving dozens missing, according to rescue officials and Brazil's government.
Thousands of people in Bolivia's largest state celebrated what they saw as the success of a referendum on autonomy Sunday night, but the country's president said the measure had failed.
Voters in Bolivia's largest state are likely to pass a sweeping autonomy referendum Sunday, dealing a blow to the country's leftist president and deepening an entrenched political conflict.
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