Colombia distils the best of South America - and with the help of a good guidebook and advice from other travellers, you're very likely to stay safe... more
Incident occurred at a five-star hotel in the plush northern Johannesburg suburbs - the same hotel where Slovenia will be based during the World Cup... more
Friends of an 'exceptional' British charity worker paralysed in a diving accident in Colombia have raised more than £30,000 to airlift him home - but still need another £60,000... more
Colombia says it will appeal to the UN Security Council and the Organisation of American States after Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace... more
The former leader of one of Colombia's biggest drug cartels, who was once ranked alongside Osama bin Laden on the FBI's 10 most-wanted list, has been sentenced to 45 years in jail in the US... more
Paraguay became the 11th nation to make it into the World Cup finals thanks to a convincing 1-0 win over Argentina, whose qualification hopes took a further blow... more
Reckon you can salsa? Jane Cornwell did, before she tried to cut it on the dance floors of Cali, where being a salsero is a way out of the ghetto... more
Oil and gas explorer Emerald Energy's profits leaped sixfold last year as revenues almost doubled despite the oil price's sharp decline since July... more
There should be a word — do the Germans have one? I bet the Germans have one — to describe the emotion of just having missed delivery of a fridge... more
Football: Brazil have called up the Manchester City trio of Robinho, Jo and Elano for next month's World Cup qualifying games against Venezuela and Colombia... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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