AN American aid worker has been released from a notoriously overcrowded Haitian prison after a judge apparently cleared him of allegations that he kidnapped an infant from a hospital where he worked as a volunteer.

AN AMERICAN who sold his construction business and travelled to Haiti to help earthquake victims was in jail yesterday as authorities investigated allegations he kidnapped an infant.

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.