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Mexican naval officers escort a member of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel to a news conference in Mexico City yesterday

Top Mexico drug boss killed in gun battle

200 marines bring down feared trafficker renowned for beheading his rivals

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Texas polygamist gets 33 years for child sex abuse

Friday, 18 December 2009

The Texas attorney general's office says a 57-year-old member of a polygamist group has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual assault of a child.

A migrant jumping from one train car to the next in Arriaga, Chiapas state. Migrants are often thrown off the train by criminal gangs who demand payment for the ride, some suffer severe injuries or death

Remembering invisible victims on 'International Migrants Day'

Friday, 18 December 2009

Few of the Central American migrants looking to escape to the United States are prepared for the horrors they will endure along the way. Entering Mexico through one of its border states (most often Chiapas or Tabasco), they face a constant threat of persecution, and, at present, lack even the most basic of human rights.

The French correspondent Philippe Berry is interviewed outside Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles

Johnny Who? Los Angeles bemused as France decamps to Hallyday's bedside

Friday, 18 December 2009

Media circus at hospital treating pop star unknown to American audiences

Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

The Big Question: Will taking Guantanamo Bay inmates to Illinois resolve their legal status?

Thursday, 17 December 2009

An X-ray of the two-year-old shows some of the needles inside his body

Surgeons to operate on Brazilian boy with 50 needles inside him

Thursday, 17 December 2009

A boy of two is in intensive care in Brazil after up to 50 sewing needles were pushed inside his body, apparently one by one.

With President Obama after his 2009 swearing-in

The surreal afterlife of an ex-President

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Alex Hannaford: What is Dubya doing now he's retired? Defending his reputation - and telling jokes

Children in Manabi, Ecuador, use computers for the first time

Independent Appeal: Ecuador's yellow revolution

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Fairtrade has transformed the lives of banana farmers and their families but a computer charity has helped them take on the big boys. Guy Adams reports

Right-winger ahead in Chile poll

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera was leading in Chile's presidential election yesterday and is favourite to win a run-off in Latin America's most stable economy after 20 years of leftist rule.

Nobel economist Samuelson dies, aged 94

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel Prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics and helped shape tax policy for President Kennedy, has died at home aged 94.

Rachel Uchitel and Kalika Moquin have both been linked with Tiger Woods

The Sin City VIP service that seduced Tiger Woods

Monday, 14 December 2009

The art of adultery has been incorporated in the business models of Vegas clubs

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