More than 180 people who were due to fly to Boston yesterday were left stranded in Co Clare overnight because their airplane was needed to take other passengers from Dublin to the same destination.

An 18-year-old who worked in a seaside hotel in Panama happily took up an offer by two friends to join them on a fishing trip and earn some extra cash.

The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is billowing ash into the sky and sending super-hot pyroclastic flows surging down its slopes, causing authorities to evacuate nearby villages.

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador rejected suggestions from opposition politicians that he give an amnesty to police officers implicated in last month’s uprising over plans to strip them of promotion bonuses.

ECUADOR was under a state of siege yesterday, the streets quiet with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he’d been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier.

Soldiers firing automatic weapons and concussion grenades rescued Ecuador’s president today from a hospital where he had been trapped by police rebelling over benefit cuts.

Fifteen people were killed and at least seven injured when a drunken man drove an SUV into a crowded bus stop in the Ecuadorian coastal city of Guayaquil.

Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America, forcing thousands to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over major cities.

Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America today, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over wide regions.

President Rafael Correa, a leftist champion of the poor, declared re-election victory just moments after the polls closed – a win that breaks sharply with Ecuador’s history of political instability.

Voters are expected to easily approve Ecuador’s 20th constitution tomorrow, expanding President Rafael Correa’s powers and letting the pugnacious leftist run for two more consecutive terms.

MARIA Esther de Capovilla, the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died in Ecuador aged 116.

Maria Esther de Capovilla, the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died in Ecuador aged 116, her granddaughter said.

A small bomb attributed to left-wing extremists exploded outside the British consulate in an Ecuadorian port but no one was injured.

Ecuador manager Hernan Dario Gomez has handed in his resignation, two weeks after he was shot for dropping the president's son from the national youth team.

Ecuador's national soccer coach Hernan Gomez has vowed to continue as boss despite being shot during an argument over team selection.