MEXICO

The FIFA Women's World Cup is underway and many of the teams have already played two of the five games in the Group Stage.

The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Arlene has weakened into a tropical depression but not before causing widespread damage of lives and property in Mexico City.

Despite the summer heat, numerous natural disasters across the nation have chilled the authorities and local citizens - not just because if their innate threats, but due to the extending threats posed by their neighboring nuclear power plants. The almost record-breaking wildfire in Los Alamos, New Mexico has been raging dangerously close to the Los Alamos National Nuclear Laboratory, while record floods in Missouri threaten two nuclear plants in Nebraska.

The Las Conchas Wildfire burning near the Los Alamos National Laboratory is closing in on 100,000 acres. According to the Forest Service, the fire, which started on Sunday from unknown causes, is only 3 percent contained.

The wildfire threatening to consume nuclear waste stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory is poised to become New Mexico's biggest ever, burning nearly 94,000 acres by late Thursday.

General Motors Co announced two separate recalls on Friday affecting a little more than 10,000 pickup trucks, predominantly in North America.

The first cyclone of the 2011 Atlantic storm season, Tropical Storm Arlene, made landfall today along Mexico's Gulf Coast, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center.

Beaches in America saw the second-highest number of closing and advisory days in 2010, highest in more than two decades, as pollution continues to plague beach waters across the country, a report released on Wednesday said.

In a recent archeological excavation in the Tabasco state of Mexico, around 116 Mayan burials were discovered, 66 of which were deposited in funeral ballot boxes while the rest were scattered around the urns.

The wildfire surrounding Los Alamos national nuclear lab has become the highest priority fire in the U.S., and poses serious questions on the safety of 104 nuclear reactors across the U.S.

As firefighters continue to battle flames near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and its stock of nuclear materials, nearby residents are growing anxious about smoke from the blaze dispersing toxic chemicals.

The movie is a sci-fi romance about aliens invading human minds.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico will remain closed through Thursday, June 30, as the Las Conchas Fire is threatening the nuclear lab.

NASA has captured images from space of several fires raging across the Southwestern part of the U.S.

The head coach has had his success, but it might be time for a fresh start.

An Enron Corp successor seeking money for the energy giant's creditors cannot rely on bankruptcy law to undo the company's rushed sale of commercial paper just before its 2001 collapse.

Brazil on Tuesday backed French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as the next head of the International Monetary Fund, aligning itself with other big emerging markets such as China instead of its Latin American neighbors.

The South American cup is on the line starting July 1.

A scandal has sent eight under-22 players home before the football tournament in Argentina.

Authorities ordered Los Alamos evacuated yesterday as a fast-growing fire blazed across New Mexico, with flames coming within a mile of the famed nuclear research facility.

Thousands of people are being evacuated from Los Alamos town in New Mexico as Las Conchas fire has been threatening the town since Sunday.