Football has a great capacity to bring out good things in people, and also some of the worst. In the last week we’ve seen both.

The pilot of the doomed chartered plane carrying a Brazilian football team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and pleaded desperately for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, a leaked recording of the flight's final minutes has revealed.

Colombian authorities are searching for answers after a charter plane carrying a football team whose Cinderella story took them to the finals of one of South America's most prestigious regional tournaments slammed into Colombia's Andes mountains, killing all but six of the 77 people on board.

Latest: A chartered plane with a Brazilian first division football team has crashed in Colombia while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people.

The star of the new Netflix drama on Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel tells Ed Power

A roaring avalanche of mud and debris has devastated a mountain town in western Colombia, killing at least 49 people in a flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains.

Colombian football seemed to die with Andrés Escobar and drug dealer Pablo Escobar, says Ewan MacKenna.

Eleven people are missing after a high-rise apartment building collapsed in Colombia.

A man is to be sentenced in London next month for his role in the country’s largest ever drugs haul, when €440m worth of cocaine was recovered from the sea at Dunlough Bay in West Cork.

COLOMBIA’S second-largest city inaugurated a giant, outdoor escalator for residents of one of its poorest neighbourhoods.

Colombia’s second-largest city inaugurated a giant, outdoor escalator for residents of one of its poorest neighbourhoods.

More than 100 people were feared dead today following a landslide that buried a poor area during Colombia's heaviest rains in decades.

RESCUE workers in Colombia recovered 20 bodies yesterday, but said more than 100 people remained missing feared dead after a landslide buried a poor city suburb in tons of sodden soil.

ANY loosed-tongued World Cup commentator tempted to describe an own goal as “a tragedy” would do well to note that yesterday, July 2, marked the 16th anniversary of the murder of Andres Escobar, the Colombian player whose final major act for his country had been to put through his own goal in a game against the host nation at USA ‘94.

A car bomb ripped open cars and storefronts in the administrative centre of Colombia’s Pacific port of Buenaventura, killing six people and wounding more than 30, authorities said.

Sergio Garcia clinched the Vardon Trophy yesterday for the lowest scoring average on the PGA Tour in 2008, but that was scant consolation after another disappointing loss, this time at the Tour Championship.

Colombia did not win a gold medal at the recent Beijing Olympics, but the South American country has a PGA Tour winner at last.

Padraig Harrington, feeling refreshed again after a draining summer, carded a respectable one-under-par-69 in the opening round at the BMW Championship on Friday.

Colombians turned pedigree puppies into drug couriers by surgically implanting them with packets of liquid heroin, US authorities said tonight.

A leader of Colombia’s smaller rebel group has been released from prison today in hopes that he will be able to persuade his fellow guerrillas to hold peace talks.

The man who directed hit teams against the Colombian cocaine cartel’s Pablo Escobar fingered a disgraced politician yesterday as being behind the 1989 assassination of leading presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.

A grenade exploded in a small plaza in Colombia’s second-largest city, killing at least four people and injuring 15, police said.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams last night welcomed news the three Irishmen held in Colombia were to be released and called on the Government to “ensure the men get home safely to their families”.

A humanitarian commission today took a firsthand look at impoverished villages in northern Colombia, meeting a key demand of a rebel group holding seven foreign backpackers.

A lawyer for three Irishmen accused of helping Colombian rebels has accused a key prosecution witness of lying.

The trial of the three Irishmen accused of training anti-government rebels in Colombia is due to resume in the city of Medellin today.

One of the star witnesses in the case against three Irishmen accused of training Colombian rebels in terrorist techniques refused to testify today because he said he feared for his life.

Prosecutors in the trial of three men accused of training rebels in Colombia are set to present more witnesses this week to try to prove the men trained rebels in the jungles of southern Colombia.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe abruptly cancelled his appearance at a hotel today and was rushed to a military base by helicopter amid reports that rebels planned to assassinate him.

Gunmen on motorcycles have killed the new chief of secret police as he drove his car in Medellin, Colombia.

Colombian police have arrested a top drug dealer allegedly responsible for sending more than 30 metric tons of cocaine to the US last year.

Suspected rebels rained mortar shells onto downtown Bogota and the presidential palace as hard-liner Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as president of Colombia.

Rescuers have evacuated more than a dozen wounded people from an isolated corner of Colombia after battles between rebels and rival paramilitaries killed 68 civilians, among them 38 children, authorities said.

Clashes between Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitaries have killed as many as 60 people, many of them civilians caught in the cross fire, authorities said.

Three children were among the 16 people killed when a small plane crashed in Colombia.

Two bombs exploded in Colombia’s third-largest city, the latest in a wave of blasts that have unnerved the nation.

A car bomb has exploded in Medellin, Colombia, killing six people and injuring 82 others.