Latin America & Caribbean
The War on Marriage on Christmas
Very rarely does our government ask us what to have a war ...Ex-president Michelle Bachelet wins Chile poll run-off
Chileans have handed moderate socialist former President Michelle Bachelet a new four-year term with a landslide victory in a runoff election.Uruguay becomes first country to legalize marijuana
Uruguay has become the first nation to legalise the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana after the country\'s Senate gave final approval ...Cuba closes privately owned movie theaters, video arcades
Cuba closed dozens of home-based movie theaters on Saturday and reaffirmed its plans to end the private sale of imported goods as ...US expels 3 Venezuelan diplomats in tit-for-tat row
The US has expelled Venezuela\'s charge d\'affaires in Washington and two other diplomats in reprisal for the expulsion of three American diplomats ...Save the Nobel Peace Prize from Itself
On October 11At least 16 dead in Venezuela prison clash
At least 16 people were killed in violent clashes between inmates at a Venezuelan prison, authorities and a non-governmental organization said on ...Brazil president postpones US trip over spying allegations
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has postponed a state visit to the White House on October 23 out of concerns about US surveillance ...Miss World organiser lashes out at government
The billionaire media mogul who brought Miss World to Indonesia lashed out at the government on Monday for bowing to Muslim hardline ...Canadian woman arrested in Colombia for smuggling drugs in fake pregnant belly
A Canadian woman who used a fake pregnant stomach to smuggle two kilograms of cocaine has been arrested Wednesday at Bogota airport ...