Notwithstanding previous controversies, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has appointed his 'close friend' Yawar Saeed as the manager of the national squad for the upcoming ICC T20 World Championship, which would be held in the Caribbean from April 30 to May...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The wife of former Venezuelan leader Carlos Andres Perez ridiculed an attempt to extradite her husband from the United States, saying Friday that President Hugo Chavez is...

del.icio.us A senior U.S. official says the United States has what he called a "co-responsibility" in ending the drug-related violence that has plagued Mexico's northern border.Assistant Secretary of...

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said yesterday, that there has been progress in creating the conditions for Britain to discuss the ownership of the potentially oil-rich Falkland...

Trafficking in persons (TiP) is a modern-day form of slavery and a violation of basic human rights involving not only coercive sexual exploitation, but also forced labor, involuntary servitude, and...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Inside this city’s earthquake-cracked psychiatric hospital, a schizophrenic man lay naked on a concrete floor, caked in dust. Other patients, padlocked in tiny...

NEW YORK -- Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Javier Hernandez have been dropped from Mexico's roster for Wednesday's exhibition against Iceland in Charlotte, N.C., after scoring this week against North...

NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Friday approved ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) and its partners' investment of $2.181 billion in a giant oilfield in Venezuela bringing the...

A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said...

SANTIAGO: Chile unveiled an initial, 110-million-dollar reconstruction plan on Friday to put the central region back on its feet after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The plan focuses on...

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Cuba has taken another step in the orthopedic use of stem cells with the beginning of a pilot study for the application of this advanced scientific procedure in the treatment of...

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Chile’s government plans to sell debt in pesos and foreign currency and may raise taxes to help pay for the recovery from Feb. 27’s devastating earthquake, Finance...

US missionaries as they leave a police station in Port-au-Prince A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of US missionaries held for several weeks in Haiti on child ...

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of U.S. missionaries held for several weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges has been arrested in Santo...

February 11: Earthquake survivors line up during a food distribution after a rainy night in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 7.0 magnitude quake which struck Haiti on Jan. 12 is estimated to have killed up...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- The number of people living in slum conditions increased by 51 million during the past 10 years, despite global efforts to halt poverty, according to a United Nations' report...

When structural engineer Anuj Bansal designs systems for hospitals, university libraries and apartment complexes, seismic safety is a key consideration. But the best way to find out what it takes for...

Haiti the American-based relief organization, Life for Relief and Development (Life) in partnership with Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services, a major humanitarian relief...

AP, WASHINGTON Saturday, Mar 20, 2010, Page 7 The administration of US President Barack Obama said it was near an agreement with other nations to cancel the US$447 million that Haiti owes to the...

Sean Penn on Haiti's "Difficult Nightmare" Sean Penn speaks with Lara Logan about the disastrous earthquake that hit Haiti and the recovery efforts in...

Wild Earth Llama Adventures tours on “Destination Design” at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 20. The cable television network’s “Destination Design” crew brought a New...

— Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California at San Diego are undertaking an...

Two of those led to Haiti were CrossPoint Community Church pastor Bruce Word and his wife Debbie.The couple flew into Port-au-Prince on Feb. 25, and for 10 days, they did all they could to help the...

Chile unveiled an initial, 110-million-dollar reconstruction plan Friday to put the central region back on its feet after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The plan focuses on immediate...

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said Thursday that his office will take over two waste-collection companies the are responsible for picking up garbage in Caracas, where residents have long complained about inadequate trash...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking...

Violence Kills Three People Associated with US Consul in Mexico Agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation are providing support to Mexican authorities investigating last Saturday's murder of...

A year-and-a-half ago, Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) asked Haitian-born actor, Jimmy Jean-Louis to be its Goodwill Ambassador for children. Jean-Louis, is perhaps best known for his role...

Zenit.org ).- The idea of forming an international civil protection corps to respond to natural disasters is gaining support, and recently got backing from an article in L'Osservatore Romano.Such a...

Berlyne Chery, 13, after being returned to her village of Calebasse, Haiti. She was one of the 33 children taken by a group of U.S. missionaries after the earthquake in January. The missionaries...

Suffering from a decline in cruise ship traffic, Chile announced plans this week to expand the terminal at its main cruise port in Valparaiso and to expand or upgrade three other ports. The two-year,...

By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 19, 2010 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will travel to...

The crew of the USNS Comfort returned home Friday, after serving nearly two months in Haiti. The Comfort is a massive Naval hospital ship based in Baltimore, Md. It anchored off the coast of...

underwent an X-ray on his injured left wrist this morning and the exam showed no serious injury. The wrist is sore and tender and he's expected to play Saturday against Washington. Hobson, the...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile is lowering the confirmed death toll from its February earthquake to 452 victims. Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter says 96 people are still missing. The previous...

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Police running scared from drug gangs in one of Mexico's deadliest cities are using bizarre rituals involving animal sacrifice and spirit tattoos to seek protection from...

Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Officials in Argentina's Mendoza province have authorized chemical castration for rapists after a significant increase in sexual assaults last...

Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Five presumed drug gang members and one soldier were killed in shootouts Thursday and Friday after criminals blocked thoroughfares in two northern Mexico states to...