The U.N. Security Council on Monday gave nations new powers to pursue pirates into the waters off Somalia, an effort to combat a new spate of hijackings off the Horn of Africa.
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.
True or False: More carbon dioxide is good news for trees as it will boost growth levels.
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
The U.N. Security Council on Monday gave nations new powers to pursue pirates into the waters off Somalia, an effort to combat a new spate of hijackings off the Horn of Africa.
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.
True or False: More carbon dioxide is good news for trees as it will boost growth levels.
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
John Darwin, the British man who reappeared five years after going missing on a canoeing trip, will spend Christmas in prison after he was remanded in custody Friday.
With John Darwin's arrest Saturday, and Anne Darwin's early Sunday, one of the strangest crime stories in recent British history may have reached its end
"Canoe Man" John Darwin has been charged on two counts of fraud, UK police have said.
John Darwin's wife said her husband faked his own death to avoid mounting debts and holed up in the family home for years, hiding from his own sons, according to UK media reports.
The two sons of a British man who suddenly reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned at sea said Thursday they feared they may have been the victims of a "huge scam" carried out by their own parents.
In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target
A British man who reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned in a canoeing accident has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, police confirmed Wednesday.
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.
China has launched a four-month "war" on tainted food, drugs and exports, state media reported on Friday, as beleaguered officials embraced time-tested campaign tactics to clean up the country's battered image.
Carlos Arroyo rebounded from a dismal opening game with 16 points and eight assists, leading Puerto Rico to a 108-67 victory over Panama on Thursday in the FIBA Americas tournament.
President Bush is getting a son-in-law: His daughter Jenna is marrying boyfriend Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.
Over the last three weeks, Mexican clubs have enjoyed more attention in the U.S. than they normally do -- at least among American soccer fans.
The boss of a Chinese toy manufacturing company involved in a Mattel recall after its products were found to contain excessive lead levels has hanged himself, Chinese media reported Monday.
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.
A federal judge dropped charges against former CIA operative and anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, blasting what she called government "fraud, deceit and trickery" in an interview with Posada that led to the charges.
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.
French Polynesia remains the undisputed capital of overwater escapes, where $700 is the typical starting price for a hut poised on stilts in a tranquil, aquamarine lagoon. But resorts exist that are both far more affordable than Bora Bora and still within belly-flopping distance of the water.
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?
The real online race is the one for ads, with everybody struggling to catch up to Google. You may think of Google as a search company, but selling and deploying ads is the business that drives its stratospheric stock price.
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.
When a company that is a leader in its industry loses more than a fifth of its market value in one day, it's reasonable for people to wonder if the stock is now a good long-term buy.
A man on the United States' list of most-wanted international drug traffickers was arrested Wednesday morning in Brazil, officials said.
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Panama's agriculture minister resigned Tuesday, accusing the United States of pressuring Panama to accept dangerous agricultural inspection standards.
All residents of a Vanderburgh County mobile home park were accounted for Tuesday, two days after a tornado made a 43-mile run from Kentucky across the southern Indiana countryside, killing 22 people.
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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Police in 12 European and Latin American countries were arresting about 500 people to break up an Internet pedophile ring discovered in a Spanish village, officials said.
A torrential rain shower has triggered massive mudslides in Panama's capital, killing at least nine people, according to the country's Civil Defense Authority.
It's every surfer's dream to own a stretch of beach in front of some great surfing spot. Matt Sumner found his while cruising Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast. Sumner wants to keep the exact loca...
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Eyebrows went up when Dale Anderson and his wife, Kim, told their friends they were buying a second house in Paraiso del Mar, a new housing development in La Paz, Mexico.
There are dozens of special-interest cruises these days, focusing on subjects as wide-ranging as spy craft (with lectures by former intelligence agents), solar eclipses and golf. We can't even scratch the surface here. For a more comprehensive list, try www.cruise-news.com.
I've led and worked on projects in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, and South Africa. And I've found that international experience, decision-making authority, and sound ju...
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MONEY delivers! Specifically, we have delivered more than 600 pieces of mail to Tim Carlsen (pictured above), the 33-year-old Seattle investment banker whose high-cost search for a wife was reporte...
President Bush asked Congress for $500 million in emergency cash for Panama on January 25. Then he waited. And waited. Finally, in late May, Congress cobbled together the long-overdue aid bill and ...
The present writer has long tended to twitch uncontrollably any time somebody speaks warmly of Jimmy Carter, so he has been more spastic than usual lately. Esteemwise -- there is no denying it -- J...
After months of dawdling, it looks as if Congress will approve additional aid to Panama this spring. President Bush has asked for $500 million. A top congressional aide says Bush has ''increased th...
Social activism in the 1990s is going to be more relevant than it ever has been. Just look at what's happening in Rumania, look to the students in Tiananmen Square. In many ways, the Vietnam Vetera...
THE ILLICIT DRUG TRADE is probably the fastest-growing industry in the world and is unquestionably the most profitable. A handful of Latin American countries grow coca leaves that yield cocaine, wh...
The official language of Panama is Spanish, but the people there also know a few words of French, like laissez-faire. As a result the country has become a haven for U.S. banks, drawn by minimal rep...
The wandering bargeload of Long Island garbage that took an unexpected Caribbean cruise recently was no anomaly. The U.S. is rapidly running out of safe dump sites, and stiff government regulations...
Now that mounting a tiger's head on the library wall is widely considered an act of environmental vandalism, what can the heavyweight sportsman do to flaunt his prowess? What avoids endangered spec...
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