South Carolina prepares to vote in the Republican nomination campaign, with front-runner Mitt Romney hoping to win over the party's heart. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits allies in South America. And children on the frontline of the war between the Colombian government and FARC rebels learn how to survive, and how not to get involved.
We often consume genetically modified organisms, so-called GMOs, without knowing it. But is it dangerous for our health? Today the debate continues to divide scientists.
Colombia's FARC rebels have been at war with the government for nearly five decades but they suffered a major loss this week when their leader, Alfonso Cano, was shot dead by the army. Also, as the presidential elections draw nearer in the US, Barack Obama courts the black vote, but is it enough to get him re-elected? Finally, war veterans join the movement against corporate greed but protests turn violent in Oakland, California.
U.S. President Barack Obama leader has lifted a two-year ban on military trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Marisol Valles caught the world's attention when she was appointed the police chief of one of Mexico's most dangerous drug war towns.
But the 20-year-old criminology student is now seeking aslyum in the United States, after reportedly receiving death threats.
A methane gas explosion in a Colombian mine killed four miners and trapped thirteen others Wednesday. Six people were killed in a similar accident in the same mine in October 2010.
Marc Perelman meets Leopoldo Lopez, founder of the 'Voluntad Popular' or 'Popular Will' party in Venezuela, and one of the leading opponents of President Hugo Chavez.
The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has surprised us all by taking the biggest honour in books. A titan of South American literature, whose political ambitions saw him run for president in his native Peru, won the Nobel prize for literature at the age of 74. Eve Jackson asks our France 24 book critic, Augustin Trapenard what he makes of the new Nobel laureate.
Brazil's football club Internacional beat Mexico's Chivas de Guadalajara 3-2 at home to clinch their second Copa Libertadores title on Wednesday. Inter will now go on to the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi in December.
The European Union and the Mercosur group of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay have formally re-launched the difficult trade-liberalisation negotiations that had been frozen since 2004, Spanish Premier Jose Luis Zapatero said Monday.
