South America
Teen fan shot dead in football riot
A TEEN has been shot and killed in Buenos Aires after a Boca Juniors "supporters' day" erupted into violence, police and witnesses said.
Argentina descends into chaos
SEVEN people are dead and looting is widespread in Argentina, as police strike for better pay - all while the country celebrates 30 years of democracy.
Brazil vows to act on hooliganism
BRAZIL has pledged to stamp out stadium violence after hooliganism marred a weekend game, raising doubts about the World Cup.
Highly radioactive waste guarded
IT could take at least two days before stolen then abandoned highly radioactive cobalt-60 is taken away from a site now under heavy armed guard.
Uh oh. Radioactive bomb scare
IT'S like an episode of Homeland - but real. Gunmen hijacked a truck from a servo and there was reason to panic.
Police strike leads to looting
AS police went on strike for better pay, anarchy came to the streets of Cordoba in Argentina, with reports of widespread looting and two deaths.
Radioactive material stolen: IAEA
THE United Nation's nuclear watchdog has been told that a truck carrying medical radioactive material has been hijacked.
Indian 'cultural warrior' killed
THE South American Indian who took his battle with sugar growers to the world - and became a film star in the process - has been murdered.
The world's oldest toilet discovered
SCIENTISTS have discovered that a communal latrine containing faeces that dates back 240 million years to the time of "megaherbivore" reptiles.
World Cup stadium collapse kills two
PART of the stadium that will host the World Cup opener in Brazil next year has collapsed, killing two people.
Death god's temple still packs a scare
THE skulls should have been a dead giveaway. A recently uncovered temple in Mexico is the first found dedicated to the ancient god of death Mictlantecuhtli.
Sewage clogs Rio's Olympic waterways
BRAZIL'S waterways are full of rubbish and untreated sewage and could pose a health threat to Olympic athletes, officials warn.
Dead baby found alive 10 hours later
A NEWBORN baby came back from the dead more than 10 hours later when her father came to collect her in a box from the morgue and heard a sound.
Jet skids off runway in Buenos Aires
AN AUSTRAL jet with 96 passengers aboard skidded off a runway at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport Friday after landing in a storm.
Welcome to the kidnap capital of the world
FIVE people are kidnapped and held to ransom here every day. The murder rate is on par with a war zone and law and order is failing so badly that even the criminal gangs are scared.
Mass turtle deaths puzzle scientists
SCIENTISTS are searching for answers as hundreds of sea turtles are washing up dead on the beaches of Central America.
Venezuela downs plane full of cocaine
A MEXICAN plane forced down and destroyed in Venezuelan territory earlier in the week was full of cocaine, President Nicolas Maduro says.
Crowds seek blessings for human skulls
EACH November Bolivians crowd local cemeteries to display the decorated human skulls they keep at home, seeking to have the beloved craniums blessed.
'Britain is violating Assange's rights'
BRITAIN is "violating" Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's human rights by refusing to let him leave London, according to Ecuador's president.
Body 'emerges from grave waving arms'
WATCH THE VIDEO: A WOMAN got the shock of her life at a cemetery in Brazil when a body emerged from a grave and started waving its arms around.
Poet 'not poisoned' under dictator
EXPERTS who examined the remains of poet Pablo Neruda have found no evidence he was poisoned to death during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Mysterious ocean lights? Call Mulder!
IT glows. It moves. And it's forming a 300km long spiral pattern in the South Atlantic . So what exactly is being captured by satellite cameras over the coast of Argentina?
From billionaire to bankrupt in 12 months
LAST year he was valued at $36 billion with a Mercedes parked in his living room. Now he's bankrupt with his luxury yacht sold for scrap. Where did it all go wrong for Eike Batista?
Don't stress. Join The Break Club
FORGET The Fight Club. There's a much better way of exerting pent-up anger and frustration - The Break Club. WATCH VIDEO
Residents run from tide of caramel
A FIRE at a sugar warehouse in Brazil has been put out after unleashing a flood of caramel that threatened nearby homes.
Mum 'sold' virginity of 12 daughters for $200
SHE won't win mother of the year. A Colombian woman has been arrested after she was caught selling the virginity of her 12 young daughters for just $200 each.
Cop an eyeful of this lads!
COPS on riot duty in Rio had one perk as they waited for violent protests on nearby streets - a view worth fighting for.
Dozens hurt in Argentina train crash
NEARLY three dozen people have been hurt, five seriously, after a train reportedly failed to stop at a Buenos Aires railway terminal.
Bolivian thieves steal Virgin's jewels
THE Virgin of our Lady of Copacabana, known as the mother of the nation in Bolivia, has become the latest religious icon to be stripped by thieves.
Four guilty of sadistic gay murder
FOUR Chilean men have been found guilty of first-degree murder for killing a gay man and carving swastikas into his body.
Married after 80 years living in sin
THEY have lived together for 80 years, had eight children, and now with the groom aged 103 and the bride, 99, decided to marry.
Gang threatens 'World Cup of terror'
A POWERFUL Brazilian crime syndicate has threatened to launch terror-style attacks during the World Cup next year.
Man announces death on Twitter
A CHEMIST has stunned social media users after programming a grim Twitter message to announce his own death.
High-rise apartments collapse, 11 missing
Rescuers are searching for 11 people missing in the catastrophic collapse of a 22-storey high-rise in an exclusive Medellin neighbourhood.
Scores dead as truck drives off cliff
AT least 49 people have been killed when the truck they were in careened off a cliff in the southeastern Peru province of La Convencion.
Woman gives birth in waiting room
A MEXICAN hospital director was fired on Friday after a video of a woman giving birth on the waiting room floor was posted online.
Death squad ex-pres tweets from jail
INCARCERATED for authorising death squads and corruption, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is not permitted to make public statements.
Tribe killing itself over loss of land
THE suicide rate of Brazil's tiny Guarani Indian tribe is 34 times higher than average as it struggles to cope with the loss of its land.
Man legless after amputation bungle
A BRAZILIAN hospital says a patient has been left legless after going into an operation to amputate his right leg and having doctors remove his left.
Fawcett auction items sell for $200,000
Sun Dec 15 22:06:12 EST 2013 PERSONAL items belonging to late actress Farrah Fawcett, including her iconic red swimsuit and passport, have fetched $US200,000 at auction.
Aussie held over alleged arson in Thailand
Sun Dec 15 19:16:15 EST 2013 AN Australian man has allegedly attacked a Thai man and set fire to three motorbikes in a dispute over the bike he rented.
Red-suited revellers hit NY bars
Sun Dec 15 18:33:43 EST 2013 THE costumed New York pub crawl known as SantaCon has seen thousands of red suited revellers partying in bars and the snowy streets.
Eight more dead in Bangladesh riots
Sun Dec 15 18:30:50 EST 2013 BANGLADESH police say Islamist supporters torched houses and fought running street battles with officers in towns and cities during a third day of unrest.
Son search ends in Lockerbie grief
Sun Dec 15 14:54:40 EST 2013 A US mother discovers the son she gave up for adoption died in the Lockerbie bombing just after his 21st birthday.
Mexico first for kidnappings
Sun Dec 15 13:30:45 EST 2013 THE security company Control Risk said 20 per cent of all kidnappings worldwide in the first half of 2013 occurred in Mexico.
Snowstorms in US
Sun Dec 15 12:18:15 EST 2013 A PRE-CHRISTMAS winter storm has blanketed a wide swath of the US northeast with a picturesque white layer of snow but caused travel chaos.
Ferry runs aground in Baltic Sea
Sun Dec 15 11:53:39 EST 2013 THE operator of a Finnish ferry that became stuck on rocks in the Baltic Sea says none of the almost 2000 passengers and crew on board have been injured.
Workout 'cuts festive food damage'
Sun Dec 15 11:19:14 EST 2013 RESEARCH shows just a few days of eating too much at Christmas and exercising too little can cause long-term effects on the body.
Protein may aid cancer treatment
Sun Dec 15 10:47:52 EST 2013 RESEARCH in the UK has raised hopes there may soon be available a vaccine to combat prostate cancer.
Macedonia mayor warns about air pollution
Sun Dec 15 10:03:15 EST 2013 SKOPJE'S mayor has warned pregnant women, children, the chronically ill and elderly people to stay at home because of air pollution.
90 UN peacekeepers died this year
Sun Dec 15 09:39:15 EST 2013 THE UN says 90 UN peacekeepers have died on the job this year while working at one of 15 missions.
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Woman's pants locked for 12 years
FOR 12 years, a man reportedly locked his girlfriend's pants shut with a "chastity belt" each morning in fear that she would be unfaithful.