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Peru evacuates last stranded tourists

Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America's most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.

Bus crash kills at least 22 in Peru

At least 22 people died and another 31 were injured in eastern Peru when a bus plunged off a mountain road, news reports said Monday.

Mass grave uncovered in Peru

Forensic teams have exhumed 60 bodies from what is thought to be the largest mass grave from the Peruvian government's bloody war against Maoist insurgents.

Volcano's impact seen hundreds of miles away

Nearly a week after a volcano erupted in Chaiten, Chile, disgorging its contents across a wide area of the Andes Mountains, authorities finished evacuating the area most affected.

No survivors in Venezuela plane crash

Rescue teams on Friday found the wreckage of a plane that crashed Thursday night in the mountains of Venezuela, but none of the 46 people aboard survived, a searcher said.

Fortune: Caterpillar: Big trucks, big sales, big attitude

Bugs. From the rim of the vast open pit, the trucks, bulldozers and road scrapers far below look like scuttling yellow insects. Descend the dirt ramps that spiral a third of a mile down to the floor of the pit, though, and those bugs are transformed into Caterpillars - as in the ubiquitous machines that are as much a feature of the mining landscape as muck.

CNNMoney: End of the relaxing vacation

There's a saying in Italian, dolce far niente, which means it is "sweet to do nothing."

Money Magazine: THE BEST PERSONAL FINANCE BOOKS OF 1988

With the gift-giving season upon us and holidays offering the perhaps illusory promise of time to read, we commend to your attention some of the most useful personal-finance tomes of the past year:...

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