During a study of three wild cat species descendant from the genus Leopardus living in Central and South America, scientists accidentally found that the northeastern and southeastern Tigrinas are different species – not different populations.

Lota - Relics of the coal-mining era have become a work alternative for Lota former coal miners. A journey mixing pride, nostalgia, and social criticism takes visitors through tunnels hundreds of meters below the sea, showing the hard life of coal miners.

Havana - It started as a small neighbourhood market located half a block from Cathedral Square in Old Havana; seventy years later it is still the world’s most famous Cuban restaurant visited by great personalities from Nobel laureates to renowned politicians.

Colombia's FARC rebels released hostage Kevin Scott Sutay Sunday. Sutay is a former United States Army private who was kidnapped in June after wandering into "the conflict zone."

According to Colombian police, the 45-year-old mother sold the virginities of 12 of her daughters when they reached the age of 12. The woman allegedly received $200 for each girl.

A large study in the Amazon Basin, which includes parts of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, among others, found that in this area there are approximately 390 billion trees belonging to about 16,000 different species.

Justice for Colombia, a British organization that campaigns for human rights, is campaigning for the release of jailed trade union leader Huber Ballesteros.

The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has rejected mediation which US civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson has agreed to be a part of over a rebel-held hostage.

Panama City - Few visitors would come to Panama City and miss seeing one of its major attractions. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, saving almost 13,000 km from a journey through the Strait of Magellan in the southern tip of South America.

Paris - Venezuelan authorities moved swiftly to make a number of arrests associated with a seizure by French police of a huge illicit stash of cocaine aboard an Air France flight from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, bound for a Paris airport.

Panama City - The archaeological ruins known as “Panama Viejo” (Old Panama) are the remains of the first Spanish settlement on the Pacific coast. Through Old Panama, and the town of “Nombre de Dios” passed most of the riches the Spaniards took from America.

Panama City - Tagua, also known as vegetable ivory, is the seed of a palm that grows in tropical rainforests. The Wounaan indigenous people of the region of Darién, Panama, use these nuts to create beautiful figures of animals of the forest.

Every morning and night we brush our teeth and wash our face. Us ladies, probably put on some type of daily moisturizer and then a night cream later, but do we always think about what we're putting on our faces?

A routine examination of passengers leaving the El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia, revealed a woman allegedly carrying two kilos of cocaine in a false pregnancy tummy.

Cartagena - On Thursday, Colombian authorities confiscated a one-ton shipment of cocaine which had been carefully hidden in a shipment of fresh limes, intended for Europe.

The Colombian government confirmed on Aug. 26 that it was in talks concerning the agricultural strikes. The miners' strike at Drummond is not yet being addressed at national level though. The central province of Boyaca is still cut off by road blocks.

Seattle - As part of its expansion into Latin America, Starbucks is poised to open its first store in Colombia, a country that boasts the "richest coffee in the world."

Llamas are Andean mammals related to camels and dromedaries. Llamas were first domesticated about 5,000 years ago by the Incas of the Peruvian highlands and they are still bred by the people of the Andes for their meat, wool and as beasts of burden.

It's been described as half-cat, half-teddy-bear, and sports rusty-coloured fur. It's the olinguito, the first carnivore to be discovered in the Western hemisphere in 35 years.

Olinguito has a long tail, orange fur and big eyes and is said to resemble a cross between a domestic cat and a teddy bear. Olingutio happens to be the newest mammal and the first carnivore discovered in the Americas in the last 35 years.