State-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced the discovery of an oil and natural gas accumulation in the Solimoes basin of Brazil's Amazon region.

The find was made during drilling of the Leste...

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has expressed anger over what his family has had to endure following the racial abuse allegedly suffered by his brother Anton Ferdinand at the hands of John...

Diana Sanchez Barrios, the first transsexual woman to seek a seat in Mexico City's municipal assembly, says she is confident of winning.

"This isn't a matter of transsexuality but of capability, and...

PANAMA CITY (AFP) - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was hospitalized Sunday for what officials said was "hypertension with a possibility of a stroke," a police statement said.The...

Sunday, Jan. 22nd marked the 39th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, where the high court marked abortion as legal in every state in the U.S. However, nearly four decades after...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Around this time every year, millions of parents in California are working through the school enrollment process. Unfortunately, while many don’t have a choice regarding what...

Photo: Eldercare worker and union member Margaret Boyce speaks at rally in Trenton, N.J.WASHINGTON, D.C.--Rolanda Wade works as restorative aide and certified nursing assistant. To her patients, she...

"America is back," President Barack Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address. That sounds muscular, very Schwarzenegger-sque. But America’s new avatar is a little different...

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance at the launch of his memoirs in Havana. The 85-year-old was promoting ‘A Guerilla of Time’: a book that charts...

The Brazilian government has deployed the army in the northeastern state of Bahia where a police strike has sparked a wave of violence. Official figures suggest the murder rate has more than doubled...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A police strike in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia sparked a wave of murders and other violence in World Cup host-city Salvador, local media reported, just two weeks...

Caracas, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The foreign ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) agreed to meet in Cuba soon to assess decisions regarding the exclusion of the...

A Nukak Maku child in San Jos del Guaviare, Colombia: the nomadic community has been driven out of its territory by Farc guerillas. Photograph: William...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Last year, my grandson Rickey took his first steps into a transitional kindergarten classroom. When he was in preschool, Rickey, a fall baby with a November birthday, was among...

International matches in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this month will prepare the SA women's football team for the Cyprus Women's Cup, according to Banyana Banyana coach Joseph...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Residents who live near Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti will now be able to get fresh fruits and vegetables grown on local farms. As part of the Miami Dade County Health...

Seven oil companies have notified the Brazilian Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) that they have already discovered signs of hydrocarbon resources so far this year. Among...

Published Date: December 29, 2011 BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery next week, two months after being...

Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days...

MONTERREY, Mexico -- Police in northern Mexico have captured an alleged member of the Zetas drug gang who confessed to killing at least 75 people, including many who were pulled off buses,...

BOGOTA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Colombian National Police Wednesday destroyed 17 cocaine processing laboratories, seized 692 kg of basic cocaine and arrested 10 people in an anti-drug trafficking...

Members of the Air-Naval Services of Panama, guard captured drug pakages as they present them to the media, in Panama City, capital of Panama, on Jan. 10, 2012. A total of 248 kg. of cocaine were...

Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days...

Santiago de Chile, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The Chilean regions of Valparaso and O''Higgins in central Chile remain in a state of yellow alert as forest fires spread. In some communities, such...

(02-05) 07:46 PST RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there...

Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days ago. The local A Tarde daily reports...

MIAMI (CBS4) – A memorial service will be held Sunday for a South Florida volunteer who was shot in Haiti. Nicolle Bompart has lived through more grief than most of us can handle. Thursday her...

Kathleen Roberson, of Phenix, Ala., was pulled over Saturday night after a Hillsborough sheriff's deputy spotted a 2003 Kia Sorrento without a tag near Falkenburg Road and Progress Boulevard.The...

La Paz, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The torrential rains in Bolivia have affected in recent days about 6,000 families, especially in the departments of La Paz, Oruro, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba and Potosi, the...

Havana, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban National Seismological Service reported an earthquake in the central region of the country without reports of casualties or damages. The quake of 2.5 magnitude...

February 5, 2012 Mexican police arrested the reputed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel assassination ring who is accused of plotting a massacre at a drug rehabilitation center. Federal police arrested...

Mexican federal police announced they had arrested a man suspected of plotting a 2009 massacre in Juarez that killed 17 people at a drug rehabilitation center. Police said Jose Antonio Torres...

Japanese is a foreign language to him, but Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung was able to surpass all cultural and language barriers to bring the Japanese novel "Norwegian Wood" to the big...

STANLEY: Prince William has begun a tour of duty as a search and rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, further heating already simmering diplomatic tensions between Argentina and...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon (L) and his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom arrive at a joint press conference at the official residence Los Pinos, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on July...

GRATEFUL for rain on a Caribbean vacation? You bet I was. And you might have been, too, had you just escaped from a mob of bronzed bodies dancing under the stars in whipped-up, blissed-out unison to...

Panama City - A group of indigenous protesters has blockaded the Pan-American Highway in Panama for days to protest the recent approval of mines and reservoirs in their...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc have backed Argentina in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.Argentine foreign minister...

The National Council of La Raza (NLCR) today reflected on President Obama's State of the Union address.The NCLR is the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the...

Colorblind racism is the new normal in American conservative political thought. Well after the election of the nation's first African-American president, in 2012 Republican candidates are using...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- As President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address, the 11 sentences he dedicated to addressing my current immigration status did little to instill in me any more...