President Michael D Higgins kicks off an official visit to three countries in central America today.

Experts have warned a similar disaster to the Honduras prison fire could happen again in Central America.

Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Guatemala and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides and killing at least 12.

A LEFTIST television journalist made history by bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since the end of a bloody civil war and promised yesterday to unite the country after a bitter presidential campaign.

A leftist television journalist won El Salvador’s presidential elections, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule.