The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been asked to investigate whether Panama tortured an Ecuadorian citizen who was being held as an illegal immigrant, an official hemispheric human rights organization said.
Here's a snapshot of Panama's defining experiences: a modern capital on the canal, near-deserted islands, and trails for spotting wildlife and waterfalls. Get a sense of which ones fit your travel style and your budget.
At age 17, Brian O'Hanlon dropped out of college and went on an angling adventure.
At least 24 people died late Thursday in Panama in a crash between a truck and a bus, President Ricardo Martinelli said at the scene of the accident.
One game away from a chance to win its third straight Gold Cup, the U.S. national team plays Honduras for the third time in the past seven weeks on Thursday (7 p.m. ET, Fox Soccer Channel, TeleFutura) with a different team than it used the last two times.
As the days left until the start of the 2010 World Cup shrink with increasing rapidity, Mexico's task of actually getting there grows more urgent. Five games are left between now and the end of qualifying, which doesn't leave the team nor coach Javier Aguirre much time to get Mexico out of harm's way and into a World Cup berth.
Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday.
Opposition leader and supermarket mogul Ricardo Martinelli has won Panama's presidential election, the head of the country's electoral tribunal said Sunday.
Hunched over a campfire in eastern Panama, Embera tribesman Raul Mezua chanted a song his grandfather taught him when he was a boy.
Even the most sophisticated traveler could be forgiven for thinking that there's little more to Panama than its iconic canal, seaside capital, and snorkeler-packed Bocas del Toro islands.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been asked to investigate whether Panama tortured an Ecuadorian citizen who was being held as an illegal immigrant, an official hemispheric human rights organization said.
Here's a snapshot of Panama's defining experiences: a modern capital on the canal, near-deserted islands, and trails for spotting wildlife and waterfalls. Get a sense of which ones fit your travel style and your budget.
At age 17, Brian O'Hanlon dropped out of college and went on an angling adventure.
At least 24 people died late Thursday in Panama in a crash between a truck and a bus, President Ricardo Martinelli said at the scene of the accident.
One game away from a chance to win its third straight Gold Cup, the U.S. national team plays Honduras for the third time in the past seven weeks on Thursday (7 p.m. ET, Fox Soccer Channel, TeleFutura) with a different team than it used the last two times.
As the days left until the start of the 2010 World Cup shrink with increasing rapidity, Mexico's task of actually getting there grows more urgent. Five games are left between now and the end of qualifying, which doesn't leave the team nor coach Javier Aguirre much time to get Mexico out of harm's way and into a World Cup berth.
Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday.
Opposition leader and supermarket mogul Ricardo Martinelli has won Panama's presidential election, the head of the country's electoral tribunal said Sunday.
Hunched over a campfire in eastern Panama, Embera tribesman Raul Mezua chanted a song his grandfather taught him when he was a boy.
Even the most sophisticated traveler could be forgiven for thinking that there's little more to Panama than its iconic canal, seaside capital, and snorkeler-packed Bocas del Toro islands.
Once considered the strongest team in Central America -- before it was overtaken by Costa Rica and Honduras -- El Salvador has reached the final stage of the CONCACAF regional World Cup qualifiers for the first time in 12 years. (El Salvador hosts the U.S. on Saturday in the second game of the Hexagonal.)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 shook Panama Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Panama's director of the National Cultural Institute was killed when he got caught in the middle of a shootout between robbers and security guards, the government reported.
Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it.
Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital.
What to do with an aging, all-but-forgotten former military strongman who has served his time but is also a prisoner of war?
Saudi Prince and billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal says he will build the world's tallest building, planned to be over a kilometer (3,281 feet) high. The tower will be built in the Saudi town of Jeddah and will be part of a larger project that will cost $26.7 billion, (100 billion Saudi riyals) said the Prince's firm, Kingdom Holding Company.
For the first time ever, CONCACAF teams have played competitive matches throughout the region in a short amount of time. The region's inaugural Champions League is underway and whether or not the tournament is viable or necessary is irrelevant now that the games have begun.
"Shh ... shh get back," the man with the walkie-talkie said. "We're filming."
The fate of the firefly, dwindling in numbers, drew more than 100 entomologists and biologists to Thailand's northern city of Chiang Mai last week
Add another variable to the perplexing task of predicting which MLS team is best suited to running the gauntlet of playoff matches that determine the league champion: attrition from yet another competition.
The wife of a British man who reappeared five years after he was believed drowned "lied at length" to cover up her part in a $500,000 insurance con, a court heard Tuesday.
Canada isn't Mexico, and probably never the twain shall meet. Yet overconfidence in the American camp won't be brimming prior to the U.S.' semifinal showdown Thursday to determine who goes to the Beijing Olympics this summer (Fox Soccer Channel, 9 p.m. ET).
The baby girl in Ana's Story is HIV negative, says the first daughter
A casual observer at CONCACAF's Olympic qualifying tournament may not be able to pick out the supposed regional powers after the competition's rocky start.
For the third time, a federal judge has rejected attempts to block former Panamanian leader Gen. Manual Noriega's extradition to France to face money laundering charges.
The parents of the sole survivor of a plane crash in Panama have been reunited with their daughter at the hospital where she is receiving treatment, a nurse said early Thursday.
The bodies of two Americans and a Panamanian pilot -- who were among four people missing after their plane disappeared in a mountainous area of Panama -- were found Christmas Day, officials in the country said.
The sole survivor of a plane crash that killed two Americans and a Panamanian pilot was awake and talking Wednesday, a doctor said.
Rescue workers struggled Wednesday to rescue a 12-year-old U.S. girl who was the only survivor of a weekend plane crash in Panama
In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target
A federal judge Friday lifted a stay on former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's extradition to France, allowing the general to be sent to Paris on Sunday, when his current prison sentence ends.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's extradition to France was stayed Wednesday.
Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.
Analysis: Panama's ex-dictator is the only recognized prisoner of war in the world and is trying to use the Geneva Convention to his advantage.
The groundbreaking on an expansion of the Panama Canal is seen by many Panamanians as a coming of age moment
New Zealand on Wednesday asked retailers and consumers to dispose of 11 brands of Chinese-made toothpaste after tests confirmed they contained toxic chemicals.
A federal judge on Tuesday approved the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence on a conviction in absentia on money-laundering charges.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to France to serve a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering charges, a federal judge in Miami ruled Friday.
President Bush is getting a son-in-law: His daughter Jenna is marrying boyfriend Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.
Justice Department lawyers asked a federal court Tuesday to extradite former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France when his U.S. prison term ends later this summer.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued an advisory Friday, the same day Panama announced that hundreds of poisoning cases were linked to diethylene glycol.
Off in the distance, where Panama Bay becomes the Pacific, container ships loaded with merchandise bound for the U.S. bob in the haze. Closer in, a flock of construction cranes hovers over densely clustered high-rises. Fourteen stories below, on Balboa Avenue, cars inch along, their windows sealed tight against the sweltering heat.
Gillette Stadium's "Curva Sud," as I like to think of the south end in Foxborough, was reserved for Panamanian fans during Saturday's U.S.-Panama Gold Cup quarterfinal match.
There was nothing flashy about Mexico's 1-0 win over Panama on Wednesday night. There were no amazing plays, no individual displays of talent and not too much drama in the victory.
Yahoo shares tumbled nearly 12 percent Wednesday morning, a day after the world's second-largest online search company reported earnings that missed Wall Street's forecasts.
Yahoo!, the world's second-largest online search company, announced a decline in first quarter profit Tuesday, results that missed Wall Street's forecasts and a setback following a bullish run for the stock earlier this year.
Momentum. Yahoo! has it. Google doesn't. That's the current view on Wall Street.
The top two executives of Internet media firm Yahoo! told investors Tuesday that the company hopes to gain market share against industry leader Google as its new search tool is leading to more relevant and higher quality search results for advertisers.
Senior executives at Yahoo! have probably become big fans of the rock group Van Halen lately.
Yahoo!, the world's second largest Internet search company, reported fourth quarter results Tuesday that beat Wall Street expectations but issued a tepid forecast for 2007.
Will Yahoo's fourth-quarter earnings and guidance for 2007 be smooth or chunky?
Miraflores Locks, Panama
With most of the votes counted, about 80 percent of Panamanians appeared Sunday to have approved a $5 billion plan to widen the Panama Canal.
A man on the United States' list of most-wanted international drug traffickers was arrested Wednesday morning in Brazil, officials said.
Panama's agriculture minister resigned Tuesday, accusing the United States of pressuring Panama to accept dangerous agricultural inspection standards.
President Bush acknowledged Monday that it would be difficult to push any U.S.-Panama trade deal through Congress, but said getting one completed remains a top priority for his administration.
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