A relationship with a troubled teenage girl and the subsequent accusation of sex assault — of which he was cleared — has left a priest with a battle on his hands, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Chile has issued an environmental alert for its capital Santiago because of air pollution.

IT’S been described as the worst machine ever invented: it drags a sofa behind it, does a maximum speed of 60km/h, hates hills and is prone to breakdowns.

SOUTHERN Chile’s Puyehue volcano has erupted for the first time in half a century, prompting evacuation orders for 3,500 people, authorities said.

AUTHORITIES evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile on Friday after a snowcapped volcano, dormant for thousands, of years erupted. The blast sent minor earthquakes rippling through the region.

Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted, sending minor earthquakes rippling through the region.

A powerful earthquake damaged thousands of houses, blocked roads and knocked out electricity across northern Chile, with at least two reported deaths and more than 100 injuries.

Peru’s White Mountain Range may soon have to change its name because rising temperatures are fast melting the ice atop Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the tropics, and peaks are turning brown.

A powerful earthquake rattled Chile's remote northern Andes region near the Bolivian and Peruvian borders, killing at least eight people and causing widespread damage in several mountain villages.

UP and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.

At least 69 people have died in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, after storms caused floods and mudslides throughout the city in recent days.

Heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures in southwestern Argentina has left 17 people dead and more than 3,000 people stranded.

Rescue workers are struggling to look for the bodies of 36 people, buried by an avalanche of rock and mud in the Andes.