A blast has ripped through a fast food restaurant next to a busy subway station in Chile’s capital.

Prisoners held by the regime of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet were played a “torture soundtrack” of songs by Julio Iglesias and George Harrison, according to a study.

Judges in Chile have made an unprecedented apology for their role under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet.

Comedian Eddie Izzard has said he is prepared to take the flak for wanting to pursue a career in politics.

A preferred book café here in Singapore is just a medium stroll from our apartment.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams reacted to the announcement of Margaret Thatcher’s death with a scathing assessment of herpolitical legacy in Ireland and elsewhere.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has issued a statement following the death of Margaret Thatcher, saying she did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as prime minister.

The Shadow of What We Were

Ecuador is entitled to grant asylum to Julian Assange.

Two Chilean military officers have been charged with torturing a former president’s father who died in their custody.

The multiple apologies issued by Liverpool FC employees on Sunday must have come as a relief to the majority of the club’s fans.

The Spanish judge known for investigating crimes against humanity took the stand in his own trial, rejecting charges that he had overstepped his jurisdiction by probing right-wing atrocities linked to the Spanish civil war.

A SPANISH judge who became an international human rights hero by indicting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet yesterday denied any wrongdoing as he went on trial over his handling of a domestic corruption probe.

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The Roman Catholic Church has angered rights activists and some conservatives by petitioning Chile's government for prisoner pardons that would include people responsible for crimes against humanity.

A former Nazi soldier who founded a secretive, commune-like colony of German immigrants died in a Chilean prison where he was serving time for child molestation and human rights abuses dating to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

THE Spanish judge who became an international hero by going after Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was indicted yesterday for daring to investigate what is arguably Spain’s own biggest unresolved case — atrocities committed during and after its Civil War.

AN AFTERSHOCK measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile yesterday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president.

Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidential vote in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years.

Chile has inaugurated a 'Museum of Memory' to make sure the tens of thousands of people who were imprisoned, killed or disappeared during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship are not forgotten.

Right-wing billionaire Sebastian Pinera set himself up for an election run-off against a veteran of the coalition that has ruled Chile for two decades of democracy.

Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, has died at 94.

A bleak story set in Pinochet’s Chile of the late 1970s in which the film’s co-writer Castro plays a seedy dancer in a dismal bar who is obsessed with John Travolta’s character in 'Saturday Night Fever', the Tony Manero of the title.

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.

Critics of a new film about the republican hunger strikes in the North should watch it before they attack it, one of the strikers said today.

A Spanish judge started proceedings against 40 members of the Rwandan military today on charges of terrorism and genocide.

WHEN clothes slip out of fashion you should just throw them out.

A Chilean court today ordered the release on bail of General Augusto Pinochet’s widow, five children and former associates, two days after they were arrested on corruption charges.

THE legal firm called on to provide assistance to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann in the UK is accustomed to high profile cases.

SUCH was the delight of the US administration on hearing that Saddam had been hanged that one could almost visualise these wonderful upholders of democracy and freedom dancing in a big circle around the White House and singing ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’.

REFUGEES from Pinochet’s Chile were feared as anarchists and potential recruits for the IRA.

In a posthumous letter to Chileans made public today, General Augusto Pinochet wished he had not needed to stage the bloody 1973 coup in which he took power, describing his destiny as one of banishment and unimagined loneliness.

The soldier grandson of General Augusto Pinochet has been thrown out of the Chilean army after causing an uproar with a funeral speech denouncing judges who had tried the late dictator.

The death of Gen Augusto Pinochet sparked champagne-soaked celebrations, skirmishes with police and displays of lasting devotion as Chileans took an anguished look back at the dictator's 17-year rule.

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet will be cremated, according to his son Marco Antonio, to avoid desecration of his grave by “people who always hated him".

The former Chilean dictator remained stubbornly opposed to any efforts to bring him to trial, writes Chris Moncrieff.

FORMER British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was last night said to be “greatly saddened” by the death of General Augusto Pinochet, the one-time ruthless right-wing dictator of Chile.

Venezuela's vice president said tonight that General Augusto Pinochet's death means the former Chilean dictator has managed to escape justice for crimes committed during his rule.

General Augusto Pinochet, the fierce anti-communist dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990, died this evening from heart complications, the Santiago Military hospital reported. He was 91.

A military hospital in Chile has said former dictator Augusto Pinochet has died.

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has continued to recover quickly from a weekend heart attack, but will remain at the Santiago Military Hospital for at least another week, doctors said today.

FORMER Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet’s condition is no longer life-threatening, doctors said last night.

Former dictator Augusto Pinochet was conscious and talking today, but doctors said his condition is still life-threatening after suffering a heart attack.

Former dictator Augusto Pinochet was today fighting for his life at a Chilean military hospital after suffering a heart attack, but doctors said he was improving after an emergency angioplasty to restore blood flow to his heart.