The Day of the Dead celebration began on Saturday as hundreds of Mexican-Canadians roamed around the Harborfront Center to enjoy "grave" festivities.

Local reports from Brazil say a 58-year-old man left his family and friends stunned after he appeared at his own funeral.

World renowned anthropologist and intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100, his publisher in Paris has announced.

In a move that has attracted the hostility of some of its fellow South American countries Colombia, on Friday, signed a pact that will allow U.S. forces increased access to seven of its military bases.

No country is free of “a woman’s problem,” be it full legal rights, maternity care, access to birth control, religious representation, political leadership, civil liberties, education opportunities, pay equality or protection from sexual violence.

At a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday senior officials from India and China signed a five-year agreement to cooperate in the fight against climate change.

India, home to over one third of the world's hungry, has been criticized in a report by an international anti-poverty agency over its efforts to tackle the problem of hunger within its population.

Over $8 billion has been raised by the Brazilian unit of the Spanish banking giant Santander after the largest share offering ever in the Latin American country and the world's largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) since March 2008.

Oil producing nations along with China, Russia, Japan, France and others have had meetings to plan an end to using the American dollar as the currency to buy and sell oil.

Senior White House advisor David Axelrod blames internal politics within the International Olympic Committee for Chicago's loss to host the 2016 summer olympics.