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Joe Allbritton, 87, DC media, banking giant dies
Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a ...
Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot ...
Booze, smokes on agenda for quirky gov't group
Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government's heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed ...
Chilean court fines motel for discrimination
A court in Chile has slapped a fine on a motel that banned entry to a gay couple in the first ruling associated with a new-antidiscrimination law.
Peru asks UN court to set sea border with Chile
Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas ...
Codelco reports higher Jan-Sept profit
Chile's state-owned mining company Codelco said Thursday its January-September profits rose 27 percent over the same period last year, boosted by the ...
5.9-magnitude quake strikes Chile
A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing office buildings in the capital to sway for almost a minute but ...
Solar cars roll across Earth's driest desert
The second annual Solar Challenge has begun in Chile's Atacama desert, where 15 solar-powered cars rolled out of an old salt mine Thursday.
Chile searches for 3 missing European tourists
Three days of searching has found no trace of three European tourists who went missing while hiking at one of this South American nation's most active ...
Spanish judge indicts 7 for UN diplomat's slaying
Six Chileans and an American accused of the 1976 kidnapping, torture and murder of a Spanish U.N. official in Chile were indicted Tuesday by a Spanish ...
Municipal votes test for Chile's national parties
Millions of Chileans are voting Sunday for the first time in their lives in nationwide municipal elections that could set the stage for next year's ...
Chile's ALMA probes for origins of universe
Earth's largest radio telescope is growing more powerful by the day on this remote plateau high above Chile's Atacama desert, where visitors often ...
Cynthia Carroll to step down as Anglo American CEO
Cynthia Carroll will step down as chief executive of mining company Anglo American PLC after almost six years in the job, the company announced Friday
Andes survivors mark 40th anniversary of crash
Surviving members of an Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for ...
Investor wants $20 million for Argentine flagship
International investors put a $20 million price tag on an Argentine navy training ship Thursday after a judge in Ghana ruled that the ARA Libertad ...
Chile's huge open-pit copper mine goes underground
From above, it looks like a colossal amphitheater carved from rock, or the vast crater from a meteorite that crashed into Chile's Atacama desert ages ...
Earthquake shakes Chilean capital
An earthquake has shaken central Chile, rattling buildings in the capital of Santiago, but country's emergency office says there are no reports of ...
Chilean bishop suspected of abusing minors resigns
The pope on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a Chilean bishop who is under investigation by the Vatican for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor.
Tunneling through the Andes to speed global trade
South American engineers are trying to tackle one of the continent's greatest natural challenges: the towering Andes mountain chain that creates a ...
Chile's Allende wins Danish literature prize
Chilean author Isabel Allende has won a Danish literature prize for her "magical and spellbinding storytelling." The 500,000 kroner ($86,000) Hans ...
Chile's Pacific paradise endangered by goats, cats
It's still a natural paradise far out in the Pacific, with thick jungles and stunningly steep and verdant slopes climbing out of the sea. But much of ...
Chilean president accused of cooking poverty data
The Chilean president's efforts to squeeze political advantage from his campaign to reduce poverty have backfired, opening him up to accusations that ...
Chileans protest their 9-11, the coup anniversary
Activists in Chile marked their own 9-11 Tuesday, the anniversary of the day in 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power in a military coup that ...
Chile General criticized for anti-gay orders
Chile's government is criticizing one of its top generals for discriminating against gays and religious groups in his orders to military recruiters.
Argentina torture victim identified as Chilean
Forensic scientists have finally identified a mutilated corpse that washed up on the shore in 1976 as that of a Chilean leftist who was among the ...