ROME - Italy's foreign ministry says a chef from the country is missing from a U.S.-flagged cruise ship and the FBI is investigating. Angelo Faliva was last seen in the kitchen of the Princess Cruises Coral Princess at about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday wh
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at a typically low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire. The Commonwealth heads of government, meeting in the Caribbean this week, are
CANCUN, Mexico - Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Can
Mexico's government issued a hurricane warning on Saturday as a strengthening tropical storm Ida bore down on the country's Yucatan peninsula. Ida was quickly picking up strength and could again become a hurricane late Saturday, the Miami-based Nati
CANCUN, Mexico - Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Can
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday. Unusually warm water in recen
OUANAMINTHE, Haiti - Jovind Fritzner is well-known in this border town, where the ditches lining the dirt roads collect stagnant water perfect for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Fritzner oversees the town's malaria prevention program, and residents fr
TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico - First, riot police raided the slum with batons and pepper spray. Then authorities shut off the water and electricity. With an eviction order pending in the courts, police stand sentry outside the shacks belonging mostly to Do
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