A man has attacked and wounded six women with a knife at the international airport terminal in La Paz, Bolivia.

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.