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Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's most eloquent and widely read authors and a fierce critic of governments, has died after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.

Kurt Mix, the former BP engineer arrested for deleting messages revealing how much oil was really seeping from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well in 2010, said evidence not yet submitted to federal investigators will absolve him of all criminal charges.

In a joint presentation to both Republican and Democratic party platform committees, the American Petroleum Institute, the largest petroleum industry-backed trade group, released a series of recommendations it would like to see implemented by the next presidential administration.

Investigators in Mexico believe that the 49 headless bodies found on the side of a highway on Sunday morning may have been the latest victims of a war between rival drug gangs Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.

The world's youngest billionaire has turned 28, and his birthday has come as a landmark moment for his company, as Facebook Inc is all set to start trading.

Suspected drug gang killers dumped the mutilated bodies of more than 40 people on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey in one of the worst atrocities to hit Mexico in recent years.

The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City has spewed huge plumes of ash and fiery rocks Saturday night, terrifying local villagers and forcing a local airport to close down.

All the latest news on the players being linked with transfers to Manchester United.

On the Road is one of the most anticipated films in the Cannes Film Festival lineup this year. Based on Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel of the same name, the iconic story follows a young man's literal and figurative journey to self-discovery. Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) is a struggling writer who has just lost his father to cancer; he decides to embark on a road trip with the free spirited Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund).

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives added amendments to a Justice Department funding bill that would restrict taxpayer money from litigation involving voter ID laws, the health care law and other politically-divisive issues.

The bodies, which are so badly mutilated forensic teams have been unable to determine their sex, were left by the side of a road in the western state of Jalisco.

The price of U.S. imports fell 0.5 percent in April, a decrease driven by lower declining natural gas prices, while the price of U.S. exports rose 0.4 percent, according to a Department of Labor report Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday called off a much anticipated visit to the US where he was to join the other world leaders in a key summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations and meet with US President Barack Obama, the Kremlin announced, citing domestic concerns as the reason behind the change of plans.

Keith Judd, a.k.a. Inmate No. 11593-051, is currently serving a 17-year sentence at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas. He also won 41 percent of the votes in West Virginia's presidential primary on Tuesday, compared to 59 percent of the vote won by President Barack Obama.

In the heart of southeastern New Mexico lies a small scientific ghost town that will contain the latest next-generation technology. However, there is not one person who will be able to reap the benefits of because it will have a population of zero.

Mexican business-tycoon Carlos Slim Helú's mobile telecommunications company América Móvil S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: AMX) made an unsolicited bid to raise its stake in Dutch mobile phone company Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Amsterdam: KPN) by $3.4 billion, KPN announced Tuesday.

Newly-released BP oil spill photos show the sad impacts the disaster had on sea turtles and other animals two years ago.

Mexico's first presidential debate had a lot of skin showing. Viewers weren't paying attention to the highly anticipated political debate, but rather the cleavage of curvaceous model Julia Orayen.

China is set to move ahead with deepwater drilling in the South China Sea -- a controversial method of resource extraction in a controversial area of the world.

Ron Paul's supporters have made their intentions clear: changing the Republican Party from within surpasses any devotion they may have towards the Libertarian Party and its candidate, Gary Johnson.

Gary Johnson became the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee with an overwhelming majority on Saturday.