Two bodies, believed to be those of Miss Honduras and her sister, have been found buried near the spa where they disappeared six days ago, police have said.

A massive fire swept through an overcrowded prison in Honduras killing more than 350 inmates, including many trapped in their cells.

More than 300 prisoners died trapped in their cells as fire swept through a jail in Honduras.

Fire has swept through a prison in Honduras killing at least 100 inmates and leaving another 80 with serious burns.

Flooding and landslides from the season’s first tropical storm have killed at least 150 people and left thousands homeless in Central America, officials said today.

Hungry Hondurans scrambled through looted shops and lined up for food during a break in a long curfew called to halt violence that erupted with the return of the country’s deposed leftist president.

Dozens of supporters abandoned former Honduras president Manuel Zelaya to an increasingly isolated embassy in the country’s capital today as the stand-off over his return continued.

Two dozen supporters of Honduras’ ousted president were charged with sedition in an intensifying crackdown on protests against the coup-installed government.

Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya clashed with police in the Honduran capital and some of them attacked the second-ranking member of Congress.

Honduras’ interim government reinstated a nighttime curfew for the capital after thousands of anti-coup protesters marched into Tegucigalpa to demand the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya charged that the interim government delayed the arrival of a mission from the Organisation of American States to keep diplomats from seeing protests supporting the exiled leader.

Honduras’ interim leader said he is willing to step down if it helps end his country’s political crisis but only if ousted President Manuel Zelaya isn’t allowed to regain power.

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the country's main airport today because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside.

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, travelling aboard a Venezuelan plane, was prevented from landing at the country's main airport today as soldiers are blocked the runway with several military vehicles.

The head of the Organisation of American States said he found no willingness in Honduras’ interim government to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

A top diplomat said he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint – a mission he said is likely to meet rejection, bringing diplomatic and economic punishment for the impoverished Central American nation.

Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest.

HONDURAS’S ousted president, bolstered by international support, said he will return home this week to regain control.

Police and soldiers clashed with thousands of protesters outside Honduras’ national palace, leaving at least 45 people injured, as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez demanded the return of a president ousted in a military coup.

Soldiers ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras yesterday and Congress named a successor, but the leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced what he called an illegal coup and vowed to stay in power.

THE Honduran Congress has named its leader to replace President Manuel Zelaya, following his military ouster and forced exile in Costa Rica.

A powerful earthquake toppled dozens of homes in Honduras and Belize, killing at least six people and injuring 40 as terrified residents fled their homes across much of Central America.

A POWERFUL earthquake toppled more than two dozen homes in Honduras and Belize yesterday, killing at least four people and injuring 40 as terrified residents spilled from their homes across much of Central America.

TOTTENHAM’S hopes of playing in Europe next season were all but snuffed out by this result, but even that disappointment failed to register on a wretched weekend for the north London club.

Hurricane Henriette today threatened Mexico’s mainland on a track for the south-western US, while the weakening remains of mighty Hurricane Felix, far to the south, caused flooding, landslides and at least 9 deaths in Central America.

Felix slammed into Central America’s remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder with twin storms making landfall on the same day.

A bloody clash between rival groups inside Honduras’ biggest prison has left 13 inmates dead and one severely wounded, in the latest violence to hit the country’s overcrowded and ageing jails, authorities said today.

At least 13 inmates were killed and another 30 wounded in a shootout between rival groups inside Honduras’ biggest prison, the latest bloodshed to hit the country’s overcrowded and ageing jails.

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy accused of killing a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent has escaped from a juvenile prison for the fifth time in three years - just as he promised.

Hurricane Beta roared ashore along Nicaragua’s remote Caribbean coastline today, ripping off roofs, toppling trees, provoking floods, and causing four rivers to overflow in Honduras before weakening to a tropical storm.

Thousands of people in Nicaragua have been evacuated from their homes as Hurricane Beta neared Central America’s Caribbean coast early today, pounding the mainland with heavy rains and high winds.

SOME Vatican insiders say that when cardinals come to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II they may prefer to return to a safe Italian candidate, like the vast majority of past pontiffs.

Six children and mothers were among at least 28 people killed on a bus by gunmen claiming to be members of a Honduran revolutionary group opposed to the death penalty.

Unknown gunmen opened fire on a public bus in northern Honduras late yesterday, killing at least 23 passengers and wounding 16 others, apparently many women and children, police said.

Two children who thought a hand grenade was a toy were killed along with their older sister when the device exploded as they played with it, police in Honduras said today.

A CARDINAL mentioned as a candidate to be the next Pope sent a fugitive priest accused of molesting an altar boy in Costa Rica to work in two remote parishes in Honduras, it was reported yesterday.

A cardinal mentioned as a candidate to be the next Pope sent a fugitive priest accused of molesting an altar boy in Costa Rica to work in two remote parishes in Honduras, it was reported today.

More than 100 Honduran gang members perished after a short-circuit started a fire that tore through an overcrowded prison block.

A short-circuit in a Honduras prison started a blaze which killed at least 90 inmates and injured more than a dozen others today.

Suspected members of a street gang opened fire on passengers in separate attacks on three buses in the coastal city of San Pedro Sula, killing 12 and wounding 18, police said today.

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A businessman with a zero tolerance anti-crime policy appeared to be heading for victory today in Honduras’ presidential election, over a former teacher who promised better education.