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By James Wagner In April, Melvin Mora, a Pacoima-based accountant but native Costa Rican, mentioned to Yami Gallegos that he knew a woman who was restarting a beauty pageant for young Costa Rican girls in the U.S. Gallegos, a former Miss Costa Rica USA, was interested.

A Burnley man accused of air rage during a trans-Atlantic flight is to appear in court.

The political crisis in Honduras has cost the country nearly $20 million in U.S. aid - and the price tag could rise if the dueling governments aren't able to reach a solution.

STUART - The guardian of a Guatemalan man with serious brain damage is suing a South Florida hospital, alleging that the facility illegally deported the uninsured patient to his native country after he racked up more than $2 million in medical bills.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will not appeal his 150-year sentence for a fraud that unraveled overnight last December when Madoff confessed to his sons that nearly $65 billion he promised investors was safe was actually only worth a few hundred million dollars.

The body of a New Zealander killed during an attempted robbery in Jamaica will be brought home to New Zealand.

Wigan remain favourites to sign Swansea striker Jason Scotland despite Barclays Premier League rivals Hull expressing an interest.

Former US President Bill Clinton visited the mud-stained streets of the Haitian city of Gonaives on Tuesday on his first trip as United Nations special envoy to the poor Caribbean nation.

Delta has announced a new sale featuring flights from Atlanta to cities in Mexico and Central America.

This country reached a tipping point in 2006. It wasn't any one event in particular, but according to Cuba's Office of National Statistics, the island's population of 11.2 million stopped growing that year, and dipped slightly.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been the clear winner so far in Honduras's political crisis, leading the hemispheric condemnation of the June 28 military ouster of President Manuel Zelaya while orchestrating Mr. Zelaya's most audacious attempt to regain power, analysts say.

Mr. Chavez, an avowed socialist and critic of the United States, has emerged in the unlikely role as the leading champion of democracy for Honduras, though he catapulted to fame as an army colonel by trying to overthrow Venezuela's democratically elected government in 1992. Chavez was first elected president in 1999, but he's been stripping Venezuelan elected opponents of their power recently.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been given a clean bill of health by his doctors in Cuba, a statement from the Prime Minister's Office said yesterday.

A FINANCIAL services provider from Nedlands has been banned for eight years over his involvement with collapsed fuel additive firm Firepower.

The foreign relations minister in Honduras' interim government says he has sent a letter to Barack Obama apologizing for a racial comment he made about the U.S. president.

Bill Clinton on Tuesday took his Haiti relief effort to this battered seaside city that was nearly destroyed last year by a series of tropical storms, finding a mud-caked maze of partially rebuilt homes and shops.

Breaking News , Elections , Governance , Law , Protest , War & Conflict , Politics Languages: Spanish , English Excerpt After the recent confusing events in Honduras, which some call a constitutional change in power and others a coup d'A©tat, citizens try to make sense of the situation, as shown on this past post .

Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted Tuesday that the country's diplomatic relations with Nicaragua remained unchanged despite perceived snubs by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega during President Ma Ying-jeou's visit.

The AP/Los Angeles Times examines Haiti's success at reducing the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in the country through the work of the "nonprofit groups, Boston-based Partners in Health and Port-au-Prince's GHESKIO, widely considered to be the world's oldest AIDS clinic." Haiti's HIV rate is "lower than the Bahamas, Guyana and Suriname, ...

President Barack Obama has announced his intentions to nominate Tony Babauta as Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas.

Melbourne, July 6 : Costa Rica has been named as the 'happiest place to live on Earth' in a new survey.