A huge power cut brings chaos to Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and cities in at least four other Brazilian states.

Police and suspected drugs traffickers exchange fire in a swoop on a mule convoy.

A Brazilian private university revoked the expulsion of a 20-year-old student who wore a pink mini-dress that sparked protests on campus.

Uruguayans will vote Sunday to elect a new president. The race to lead this small Latin American nation includes two prominent figures from the country's past: a former guerilla fighter and an ex-president. The Left is hoping to stay in power after a historic win in 2005 by current leader...

A weekend of violence has left 26 dead in Rio de Janeiro. The city is working on its image, as it was recently chosen as to host both the Olympics and the World Cup.

Police in Rio de Janeiro are increasing their efforts to beat the drug traffickers in the city slums ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

A large fire destroys hundreds of shacks in a slum in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, leaving more than a thousand people homeless.

Honduras raids 2 media outlets

The competition heats up: a look at Rio's campaign to host the 2016 Olympic Games, leading up to Friday's announcement of the winner in Copenhagen.

The tense standoff in Honduras continues with ousted President Manuel Zelaya still holed up in Brazil's embassy as US calls his return foolish.

Winnipeg churches ban handshakes over H1N1

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his nation would not comply with a demand from Honduras' de facto government to decide the status of ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 10 days.

Harper to deliver economic report card Monday

Five men accused of carrying out dozens of reprisal killings for one of Mexico's powerful drug cartels have been arrested.

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who is holed up in the Brazilian embassy, continue to riot overnight.

Honduran police shut down Zelaya supporters

ATTENTION VIDEO INCLUDES DISTURBING IMAGES. Security camera images of a deadly skirmish in a subway station Mexico City are shocking Mexicans. A man scribbling graffiti in a crowded subway station shot dead a policeman and a passenger who has been hailed as a hero for attempting to tackle him.

President Barack Obama met Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House Wednesday, amid Canadian fears of US protectionism and Ottawa's fresh vow to pull troops out of Afghanistan by 2011. 

Evacuation order lifted for Lillooet B.C.

Brazil sends 1,600 tonnes of waste, wrongly described as recyclable, back to the UK

Most Canadians believe Canada still in recession: poll

A Peruvian swimmer shackles his feet together and swims for five kilometers to promote Lake Titicaca in the Seven Wonders of Nature competition.

Tuesday saw the first funeral of one of the victims of the Air France plane crash off the coast of Brazil.

It's just a few pesos for a hit. In Latin American, a freebase cocaine byproduct, or “Paco” as it is called, is ravaging the country's youth.

The deep-sea hunt for the black boxes of a doomed Air France plane intensified Thursday, with French and Brazilian naval ships, a nuclear submarine, military planes and helicopters and a tugboat equipped with underwater listening devices deployed to the crash zone off Brazil. Forty-one bodies have...