MOST Chileans are unhappy with their government’s response to the catastrophic earthquake and blame President Michelle Bachelet for shortcomings, according to a poll published yesterday.

THE Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating January 12 earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge from the fear and chaos of Port-au-Prince.

THOUSANDS more troops were deployed across quake-hit Chile yesterday as residents took up arms to stop a wave of mass looting in the nation’s second city, slapped with an 18-hour curfew.

DOZENS of looters were arrested yesterday as they scavenged among the wreckage of the massive Chilean earthquake that has killed at least 723 people.

Dozens of looters were arrested today as they scavenged among the wreckage of the massive Chilean earthquake that killed at least 700 people.

CHILE’S president sent the army to help police attack looters yesterday and appealed for international help in the wake of an earthquake that shattered cities and killed at least 708 people.

The death toll is expected to rise in Chile after the country was hit by one of the most devastating earthquakes in history, leaving 1.5 million Chileans affected and 500,000 homes severely damaged.

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world.

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

CHILE’S presidential election could come down to a nerve-racking vote-by-vote count after a late surge by former President Eduardo Frei made his race against billionaire Sebastian Pinera too close to predict.

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.

Mapuche Indians have vowed to keep seizing land in southern Chile despite the death of an activist who resisted an eviction by riot police.

From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building in New York and the Sears Tower in Chicago, illuminated patches of the globe went dark for Earth Hour, a campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

Fidel Castro met for 90 minutes with Chile’s president, who said the ailing former Cuban leader appeared “in very good shape”.

Senator Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Massachusetts vacation home after complaining of feeling ill but returned home a few hours later.

Chile is making its entire Pacific Ocean territorial waters a whale sanctuary.

A volcano in southern Chile spewed lava and blasted ash more than 12 miles into the sky today, prompting a total evacuation of the provincial capital and other settlements.

A health chief has been sacked for allowing Chile’s president to inaugurate a public hospital so poorly prepared, it had to borrow beds and have one of its employees pose as a patient.

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.

Chile’s former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been placed under house arrest and indicted for the first time on torture charges for abuses at a secret detention centre where president Michelle Bachelet and her mother were once held, the judge handling the case reported today.

FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet may have stashed millions of dollars in gold in a Hong Kong bank.

Police have fired water cannons and tear gas at protesters supporting a nationwide strike by high school students to demand reforms in Chile’s education law, including a federal takeover to reduce inequality between rich and poor schools.

Chile will use income from its booming copper exports to advance a new social agenda by investing in health, housing and education, President Michelle Bachelet said in her first state-of-nation address.