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Chile's national police chief and five other visiting Chileans were killed Thursday when their Panamanian government helicopter crashed into a three-story building in Panama City.

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Queen is heading back to South America for the first time in 27 years after reportedly scheduling two dates in ...

Ash from the Chaiten volcano that has been erupting in Chile for nearly a month led the country's flagship airline LAN to cancel flights to a string of small airports on Wednesday.

First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish -- 6,000 tons of them -- threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.

SANTIAGO, Chile : Nobody doubts that the 119 dissidents are dead - along with thousands of others arrested during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, instead of Colombia's Alvaro Uribe, accepted the rotating presidency of the Union of South-American nations in Brasilia on Friday.

From correspondents in Brasilia, Brazil, 02:00 AM IST The representatives of 12 South American countries - including several heads of state - met Friday to launch the region's latest integration mechanism, the ...

President Bachelet delivered her annual speech in front of Congress in Valaparaso Photo courtesy of La Presidencia de la Repblica de Chile President Michelle Bachelet chimed into the national energy debate ...

President Michelle Bachelet promised on Wednesday to improve health and education services and give pensioners more cash as Chile heads into local elections seen as an acid test for her unpopular government.

Three professors from New Mexico Tech scientists are in Chile. They're setting up equipment to track lightning in an ash plume from the Chaiten volcano, which began erupting May 2nd after thousands of years of ...

DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE: Nazi Hunter Efraim Zuroff has tracked wanted Nazi war criminal Aribert 'Dr Death' Heim to southern Chile's Patagonia region.

Dust was going up my nose and covering my clothes. It was in my hair and in my eyes.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Thursday welcomed 117 Palestinian refugees to the country who arrived from the border of Iraq with Syria. via People's Daily Online

“There's been additional volcanic activity that we're really worried about”

Chile's Chaiten volcano groaned, rumbled and shuddered on Thursday, raising new concerns among authorities, as lightning bolts pierced the huge clouds of hot ash hovering ominously above its crater. via Reuters

“This is a way for them to share those stories and that knowledge.”

For people who have gazed up at the night sky in wonder and wished they had someone there to identify what they were looking at, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is coming to the rescue. via BusinessWeek

“Life in Chaiten will never be the same, and those affected must remain assured that their assets will be restored to them”

Chile's government will give victims of an erupting volcano cash, tax relief and financial help rebuilding their farms and businesses in a bid to get them to return to their homes, the interior minister said ... via Canoe

“The article also should have noted that Marine Harvest and SalmonChile, an industry association, deny that they use hormones or that the pigments they use pose any risk to consumers.”

NEW YORK The New York Times got a lesson in checking sources when a port security guard in Chile claimed he was the port's director, according to an editor's note published Tuesday that revealed the error. via Editor & Publisher

The world's largest international mobile network, Vodafone has signed a strategic alliance with Chilean telecommunications firm Entel PCS to introduce the exclusive range of Vodafone products and services for ... via Domain-B

“Our database is intact, secure and protected”

SANTIAGO, Chile A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet. via ABC 33/40

“I am tremendously worried because this is an environmental, social and ecological disaster”

Some 450 dogs and 350 cats left behind in a southern Chilean town after residents fled a volcano eruption are being fed by special army convoys. via Sky News

Thousands are evacuated as volcano erupts in Chile Chilean authorities were caught off-guard by the eruption of a volcano long considered inactive. via Reuters

A hacker who identified himself as Anonymous Coward stole personal data of 6 million Chileans _ reportedly including a daughter of the president _ and posted it briefly on the Internet, authorities said Sunday. via PR-inside.com

“I am tremendously worried because this is an environmental, social and ecological disaster”

Lightning bolts illuminate clouds of ash above Chile's Chaiten volcano. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists cannot agree what ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Many people have fled, but I'm staying, even if I die here”

With just three bottles of drinking water and a few boxes of food provided by the military, Remigio Ramos hunkered down Saturday in his modest home in this ash-enshrouded village to wait out Chile's erupting ... via XtraMSN Real Estate

“What us men at least are going to need is work. And I think that if we can't go back to our homes in Chaiten, why don't they just tell us? Because if Chaiten disappears how are we going to live? This is the only stuff we managed to bring out.”

Chile ordered hold-out residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia and vowed to remove them by force if they refuse to obey. via Reuters

“There are some people among us thinking of a commando operation to reach the town”

Help is on the way for hundreds of household pets left behind in the wake of a volcano eruption in southern Chile, an animal welfare group said Saturday.

The Coalition for Ethical Control of Urban Fauna, which has been critical of the government's attention to stranded animals, said the Emergency Bureau offered to carry food to pets in Chaiten, a town 6 miles from the volcano of the same name. Contacted on Saturday, the bureau had no information.

An estimated 450 dogs and 350 cats were left when the town's residents were evacuated after the initial May 2 eruption, the volcano's first in thousands of years. Read more

World soccer star Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pele", will visit Chile on June 4 as Copa Libertadores ambassador, an official statement said on Friday. via Xinhuanet

The 1000 m-high volcano had been dormant for thousands of years before erupting on 2 May, causing the evacuation of thousands. via Science Daily

Over 1,200 people were evacuated as a preventative measure from the edge of the volatile Chaiten volcano in southern Chile on Friday. via Xinhuanet

“The volcano is now at its limit and one possibility is that the column could collapse quickly, generating flows of pyroclastic material down its ravines”

A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could collapse back down to devastate the surrounding area, a leading expert warned on Friday. via Reuters RSS Reuters.com

Experts say Chile's Chaiten volcano could belch out ash for months to come. Some experts say it could rumble on for years. via Reuters Video

“We're all sad, and it makes us sadder still to watch the television and see what this volcano has done, how it has destroyed our town and everything around it”

This Patagonian winter resort town wears a mantle of white in the South American autumn. via Hartford Courant

“We consider the lifespan of Andean volcanoes to be about 1 million years, which is supported by this new eruption”

Aerial view Chaiten Volcano, southern Chile, prior to May 2008 eruption. Image courtesy Chilean Air Force The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" ... via PhysOrg Weblog

“Army personnel have seen pyroclastic material, burning material”

Chile evacuated the last of a small group of military personnel and civilians from the vicinity of an erupting volcano in its remote Patagonian south before dawn on Thursday, after it spat a surge of fiery ... via Scientific American

Some 4,000 people have been evacuated from Chaiten in southern Chile since Friday night, as minor but frequent earthquakes struck the region. via Inside Costa Rica

Lava has started to spew from an erupting volcano in southern Chile forcing the immediate evacuation of the local area. via Reuters Video

“The airports are open but the airlines cancelled flights because the volcanic ash gets in the airplane turbines and could cause material damage”

Text size + - When worlds collide ... an electrical storm passes over the erupting Chaiten volcano in Chile / UPI Ash forces flight cancellations Planes probably grounded tomorrow as well In pictures: Chaiten ... via News.com.au

Zoro Mining Corp. is pleased to announce that it is ready to commence up to an 8,000 meter diamond drilling program at its 100% owned Don Beno gold-copper project located 100 km from Copiapo in Region III, ... via Earth Times

“A doctor will have to certify that they suffer from erectile dysfunction and that their condition would not put them in danger of suffering cardio-respiratory side effects”

The Associated Press Wednesday, April 30, 2008; 5:06 PM SANTIAGO, Chile -- A working class suburb of Chile's capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. via The Washington Post

A volcano in Chile continued to spew ash from its long-dormant cone Tuesday, prompting further calls for evacuations in the vicinity, officials said. via The Post Chronicle

Chilean town of Chaiten is now a ghost town after a full evacuation as the Chaiten volcano continues erupting. via Reuters

Thousands flee as Chilean volcano erupts Breaking Earth News Chile, S.A. Image: Chaiten volcano erupts, pouring a column of ash miles in to the sky More than 1,500 people had to flee their homes after a huge ... via The Great Red Comet

“We are not sure what is going to happen with the volcano”

PUERTO MONTT, Chile * Chile prepared to evacuate another town in its remote Patagonian south yesterday, as ash spewed from a snowcapped volcano for a fourth day after its first eruption in thousands of years. via The Peninsula

Thousands are evacuated as volcano erupts in Chile Chilean authorities were caught off-guard by the eruption of a volcano long considered inactive. via Reuters

A volcano in Chile that has been dormant for hundreds of years has erupted, sending ash thousands of feet into the air and evacuating thousands of people. via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4

“We will rebuild from the ashes”

Chile's president toured shelters packed with evacuees fleeing a major volcanic eruption Sunday as the Chaiten Volcano continued to blast ash into the sky. via Canoe

Volcanic activity at a long-dormant volcano in southern Chile has prompted the evacuation of 2,000 people from area villages, officials say. via The Post Chronicle

“The panorama here is pretty complicated”

It had lain dormant for thousands of years but Chaiten, the snow capped volcano in Chile's Patagonian region, burst back into life, forcing 4,500 people to flee their homes on Friday. via Times Online

Over 1,200 people were evacuated as a preventative measure from the edge of the volatile Chaiten volcano in southern Chile on Friday. via Xinhuanet

Christian Brown, Intendencia Regional de los Lagos In this photo released by Intendencia Regional de Los Lagos, a large column of smoke and ashes comes out from the Chaiten volcano after it erupted Thursday ... via Rock Hill Herald

“Ash has been registered, and as a result preventive evacuation has begun in areas near the volcano.”

A volcano in southern Chile spewed ash before dawn on Friday, triggering tremors 12 miles away and prompting evacuations, officials said. via The Epoch Times

Zoro Mining Corp. is pleased to announce that it is ready to commence up to an 8,000 meter diamond drilling program at its 100% owned Don Beno gold-copper project located 100 km from Copiapo in Region III, ... via Earth Times