Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced the deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Wednesday night, after four years of negotiations.
While slum tourism is arguably exploitive, some say it brings a welcome economic boost to impoverished neighborhoods.
Going on a screen shot provided by the FBI, Canadian law enforcement were able to stop a man who planned on detonating a suicide bomb in a public area during rush hour.
A project launched by two chefs – one Italian, one Brazilian – aims to take wasted food from the Olympic Village and turn it into a long-term meal program for local residents.
A decision in the impeachment trial is expected to come before the end of the month. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) of Vermont adds his voice to protests that the trial is a political coup.
The US Olympic swimming team clinched 33 medals in Rio de Janeiro, but several members of the all-star team are returning to the United States enshrouded in scandal.
The execution is one of the worst abuses by security forces in a decade of grisly drug violence.
When Pokémon Go launched in Brazil this month, it became the most downloaded app in the country. It also offered a window into nationwide inequalities.
Attacks on the kingpin's family may signal an escalation in conflict between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.
In Lac Seul, an aboriginal community not unlike those with shockingly high suicide rates, a concerted effort to restore traditions is credited with raising graduation rates rise and lowering drug abuse.
A recovered hedgehog is held in gloved hands before its release near Kecskemet, Hungary, on Wednesday. Some forty previously injured and rehabilitated animals belonging to the protected species were released into the wild as a result of the joint efforts of the Kecskemet Zoo and Kiskunsag National Park.
Swimmer Dana Vollmer became the second woman in US Olympic swimming history to medal as a mother last night. At least 10 mothers are competing for the US at the Rio Games.
Residents of the impoverished favelas had hoped for plans to address Rio's inequality, but now some are decrying the 'exclusion Games.'
As tens of thousands have taken to the streets in protest of the government and Olympic spending, activists use music to voice their discontent.
President Rousseff will be tried for allegedly doctoring government accounts to allow more public spending in the run-up to her 2014 re-election.
Uzbekistan’s Oksana Chusovitina could make history in Rio as the oldest Olympic female gymnast to compete.
For many, golf is symbolic of the vast challenges faced by host cities, from environmental concerns around construction to whether long-term benefits will reach beyond the elite.
Venezuelans at home and abroad are bringing in outside supplies to counter worsening shortages of food, baby formula, and medicines.
Equality in representation between men and women in the Games has come a long way, for some countries more than others.
Like Brazil at large, Rio's finances and politics are in bad shape. But if there is one thing Brazilians know how to do it is welcome the world with pizzaz and enthusiasm.
As tourism dried up, the life went out of Tijuana's long-rowdy main drag. But today the city is a hot spot for cutting-edge artwork, gastronomy, and culture.