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New York: A former New York City police officer avoided prison on Tuesday for the killing of an unarmed black man in an unlit stairwell, two months after a...

Brasilia: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday she has been singled out for impeachment partly because she is a woman in a drive that is...

Houston: Scores of schools were closed and cleanup was underway in Houston on Tuesday, a day after record rains hits the fourth most populous US city,...

Pedernales/Canoa: Rescuers in Ecuador were losing hope of finding more survivors on Tuesday from an earthquake which killed more than 400 people and dealt a...

Brasilia: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's government vowed on Monday to fight impeachment after the lower house of Congress delivered a humiliating...

Mexico City: Mexico's army is withholding key evidence from international investigators in the case of 43 trainee teachers abducted and apparently...

Pedernales/Portoviejo: The death toll from Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades rose to 350 on Monday while traumatised survivors rested amid the...

Santiago: Heavy rains battering central Chile have left an estimated 4 million people without drinking water as landslides wreaked havoc and rivers breached...

Havana: Future top leaders of Cuba's Communist party should retire at 70 to make way for younger blood, President Raul Castro said on Saturday,...

Manta (Ecuador): The death toll from Ecuador's biggest earthquake in decades soared to at least 235 on Sunday as rescuers using tractors and bare hands...