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Monday, December 1, 2008

Dirty teeth reveal ancient diet

By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru. Dental...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Jamaica launches $3 million tourism ad campaign

By Associated Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica is launching a $3 million advertising campaign to lure tourists to the island despite a global financial crisis. Tourism...

Amnesty: Most rapes involve young girls in Haiti

By Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A new Amnesty International report condemns rampant sexual violence against Haitian girls and says it often goes unpunished. The...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Pyramid scheme victims torch office, cars

By Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia - An angry crowd has set fire to the office of a company involved in a Colombian pyramid scheme in a small southern town. Three autos were...

Tree topples, killing four

By Herald wire services
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police said four men were killed when a huge Christmas tree they were erecting fell on them. Police said they are investigating what caused...

Guyana to close Net cafes that offer cheap calls

By Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana plans to close hundreds of Internet cafes that it accuses of bypassing the telephone company system to offer cheap international...

Brazil tries to rush aid to flood victims

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, front, inspects the floods during a helicopter flight in Navegantes, southern Brazil.
By Associated Press
NAVEGANTES, Brazil - Brazil tried to rush aid today to nearly 80,000 people driven from their homes by rain-spawned...

Raul Castro to Sean Penn: he’d meet Obama at Gitmo

By Associated Press
HAVANA - Cuban President Raul Castro said in an interview released today that he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on "neutral ground" —...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Christmas tree falls, killing 4 in Brazil

By Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police say four men were killed when a huge Christmas tree they were erecting fell on top of them. Police say they are investigating...

Brazil flood, mudslide death toll rises to 68

By Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Rescue workers desperately digging through the wreckage of homes engulfed by mudslides found more bodies on Tuesday in southern Brazil,...

Venezuela’s Chavez welcomes Russian warships

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez gestures during a news conference with foreign media members at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008.
By Associated Press
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela - Russian warships arrived off Venezuela’s coast today...
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Researchers find Trouvadore slave ship

This undated handout photo provided by NOAA shows the hull remains of the so-called ‘Black Rock Wreck’ measured and compared to the dimensions of known shipwrecks off East Caicos.
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in...


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