Rescuers in Chile are continuing to search for four miners trapped in a mine that collapsed after an earthquake two days ago, after the body of one was found.The...

Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and a fraud charge.The 73-year-old is the first former president in the...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent in São PauloGetty ImagesPresident Trump and Brazilian then-President Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in 2020Brazil thought it had gotten off lightly on the Trump tariff front.In April,...

US officials said on Wednesday that they will sanction Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of authorising "arbitrary pre-trial detentions" and suppressing "freedom of expression".Judge Moraes...

A new law in Brazil could cause "significant environmental harm and human rights violations", and represents a "rollback for decades" of protections in Brazil, including for the Amazon, a...

A 12-year-old boy was among 17 people killed as gunmen fired into a bar in Ecuador, the latest mass shooting in a country ravaged by drug violence.Ecuador's attorney general's...

Gustavo OcandoReporting for BBC Mundo from Maracaibo, VenezuelaGustavo OcandoMervin Yamarte says his tattoos led to him being mistaken in the US for a gang member and deported to El...

Harry Low & James W KellyBBC NewsPA MediaA vigil was held at Stockwell Tube stationThe family of mistaken terror suspect Jean Charles de Menezes have said it is a...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsLink et al/Biology LettersThe researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian...

Nawal Al-Maghafi and Jasmin DyerBBC World Service, reporting from Port-au-PrinceBBC/ Phil PendleburyHelene says the gang told her to have an abortion but she wanted to keep her baby and...

Human remains found near an archaeological site in the Guatemalan jungle are thought to be those of a US birdwatcher who was reported missing almost two and a half...

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has threatened to detain former President Jair Bolsonaro.The judge, Alexandre de Moraes, accused Bolsonaro of breaching a ban which bars him from appearing in...