The World Cup draw earlier turned up some shockers, with some of the best teams in the world pitted against each other so early in the tournament.

The draw for the group stages of the World Cup have churned out a number of tricky groups with several top teams set to face off in the group stages of the competition.

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi will miss six to eight weeks due to a hamstring injury he suffered in a 4-1 victory over Real Betis Sunday.

Lima - Sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena — UFOs to you and me — are on the increase in Peru. So much so that the Peruvian Air Force, the Fuerza Aérea del Perú (FAP), has announced it’s reinstating a UFO investigations team moribund since 2005.

America has become the nation of cover-ups from lying us into wars to crimes against humanity to nuclear cover-ups to gag orders silencing crime victims. A public tired of lies, stays home as "The Fifth Estate" flops.

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.

Guayaquil - The cloud forests of South America are renowned for their biodiversity and existence of beautiful, bizarre creatures. A new discovery gets added to the list - the Pinocchio Lizard.

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.

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.

Quito - Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, said on Monday that the UK, through its inaction, is making a serious mistake by keeping Julian Assange trapped in the country's embassy in London.

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.

Los Andes - Seventeen condors with apparent poisoning symptoms were rescued by travelers en route to the crossing of the Andes from Santiago to Mendoza. Witnesses said many birds were flying erratically and several collapsed while trying to land on rocks.

The World Health Organization has confirmed Colombia as the first country in the world having eliminated Onchocerciasis (river blindness), a neglected tropical disease which infects approximately 37 million people in 35 countries worldwide.

Oslo - For a traveler interested in history and discovery, a visit to Oslo’s Bygdøy Peninsula is a must. Located in close proximity of each other there are several interesting museums with a view of Norway’s past, adventure and ocean-going exploration.

The latest rumor about Edward Snowden's whereabouts have him somewhere in Russia with his next step supposedly Venezuela after receiving an invitation from that country's leaders.

In the continuing saga of “Where’s Edward" (Snowden), one of the most dramatic scenarios played out recently when a jet carrying Bolivia’s President Evo Morales had to make an unplanned stop in Vienna, Austria.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has threatened to close down the U.S. embassy in his country, as a response to his plane being denied entry over French and other European airspace, forcing his jet to reroute and land in Austria.

Quito - After France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy denied permission for a plane carrying Bolivian president Evo Morales to pass through their air space, the plane was redirected and had to land in Vienna.

Quito - Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño revealed at a news conference in Quito that a hidden spy microphone had been uncovered in the office of the Ecuadorian ambassador to London, Ana Alban.