A woman has died hours after giving birth to quadruplets at a US hospital.

This has to be the strangest red card of the week.

Bolivia’s leftist government is turning back the clock. Or, more precisely, turning it backward.

That was VERY close.

Michael Weissenstein reports from Mexico City on the arrest of drugs cartel baron Morales

Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then deleted it.

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has called the rerouting of his plane over suspicions that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden was aboard a provocation to Latin America and urged European countries to “free themselves” from the United States.

Bolivia’s president yesterday left Europe for home amid escalating diplomatic drama after his flight was rerouted and delayed overnight in Austria, allegedly because of suspicions he was trying to spirit NSA leaker Edward Snowden to Latin America.

A plane carrying Bolivian president Evo Morales was rerouted to Austria after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board.

Michael Dwyer’s death was used to further many agendas, writes Michael Clifford.

Some marked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s death with tears; others with cheers.

Venezuela's Supreme Court chief endorsed putting off President Hugo Chavez's inauguration, siding with the government in a heated dispute with the opposition while the ailing leader struggles with complications a month after cancer surgery in Cuba.

Mexico says it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban”.

Amir Khan admits he only has himself to blame after suffering a crushing fourth-round stoppage defeat to massive underdog Danny Garcia in Las Vegas last night.

In 1962, in response to escalating hostilities between North and South Vietnam, allies of Russia and America respectively, President John F Kennedy authorised the creation of the Navy SEALs.

It took less than five minutes to more than realise the price Christie’s auction house had hoped for, but Francis Bacon’s work has that affect on buyers.

SATURDAY

IRELAND’S cross-party foreign affairs committee has thrown its support behind the family of Irishman Michael Dwyer who are seeking an independent investigation into his death.

The Popocatepetl volcano which towers over Mexico City began rumbling again today, shooting a blast of ash about two miles (3km) above its crater.

MEXICAN investigators have found a total of 116 bodies in pits near the US border, 28 more than previously reported, Attorney General Marisela Morales revealed.

THE family of an Irishman who may have been lured to his death in an anti-terrorist shoot-out in Bolivia hope to meet the Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin again this month as part of their campaign for an international enquiry into his death.

Protests against a sharp increase in fuel prices have intensified and turned violent in Bolivia, as thousands of demonstrators demanded President Evo Morales’ government repeal the hike.

Bolivian President Evo Morales kneed an opposing player in the groin during a football match against a team of political rivals after an apparent hard foul by the opponent, images of the altercation show.

President Evo Morales easily won re-election, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of Bolivia’s long-suppressed indigenous majority.

MIGUEL COTTO will step into the ring tonight determined not to become another footnote in Manny Pacquiao’s rise to boxing superstardom.

Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week.

Opposition radio and television stations in Honduras were back on the air after the government lifted a three-week broadcast ban.

Bolivia’s president participated in a tribute to the guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who was captured and killed by Bolivian soldiers 42 years ago while trying to foment revolution in the Andean nation.

SLAIN Michael Dwyer was dating a Brazilian girl in Bolivia who has been left traumatised by his death, it emerged yesterday.

AS Tipperary man Michael Dwyer is laid to rest tomorrow, questions still remain unanswered as to why he was shot dead by Bolivian security forces almost two weeks ago.

A post mortem examination will take place today on the body of Michael Dwyer, who was gunned down by Bolivian security services.

BOLIVIAN president Evo Morales has again claimed that Tipperary native Michael Dwyer and two other men killed by his security forces threw bombs and fired on the armed officers before they died.

BOLIVIAN authorities believe Irishman Michael Dwyer and two others gunned down by security forces following an alleged plot to kill the president last week were working for a rich local businessman who wants to divide the country.

President Barack Obama offered a spirit of co-operation to America’s hemispheric neighbours at a summit, listening to complaints about past US meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela’s left-wing leader.

Venezuela and Bolivia broke off diplomatic relations with Israel to protest its military offensive in Gaza.

Latin American nations should expel US ambassadors until the United States lifts its economic blockade on Cuba, Bolivian President Evo Morales said.

The US is suspending a trade deal with Bolivia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

POLICE have smashed a major drugs ring in Mexico City seizing weapons, vehicles — and lions and tigers.

Police have smashed a major drugs ring in Mexico City seizing weapons, vehicles - and lions.

Bolivian president Evo Morales has refused the US Drug Enforcement Administration permission to fly anti-drugs missions over the South American nation’s territory.

Bolivian President Evo Morales says mediation by South American leaders is having a positive effect in a political crisis between his central government and eastern provinces demanding greater autonomy.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has offered to include eastern provinces’ autonomy demands in his proposed new constitution, raising hopes for a solution to Bolivia’s bloody political crisis.

The US today accused three members of anti-American Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's inner circle of aiding Colombian rebels by supplying arms and helping drug traffickers. Washington also expelled Mr Chavez's ambassador as a diplomatic clash intensified

Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced that a hotly disputed draft constitution will be put to voters in a referendum.