Ireland’s Mainstream Renewable Power and Chinese wind turbine maker Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co have formed a 50-50 joint venture to build a 70 megawatt wind farm in Chile, the firms said yesterday.

A 10-year-old stowaway travelled 620 miles in the wrong direction in Bolivia.

Miners trapped for more than two months deep underground in northern Chile were greeted with hugs, cheers and tears today as they were pulled to the surface one by one by rescuers using a missile-like escape capsule.

Chile’s mining minister acknowledged tonight that a problem has stalled the most advanced of three tunnels being drilled to 33 miners trapped underground and said officials might have to restart the bore hole in another location.

Former rugby players who survived more than two months after a plane crash in the Andes today met relatives of 33 trapped Chilean miners and urged them to stay strong.

A huge drill began digging a planned escape route today as 33 men stuck half a mile underground in Chile became the longest-trapped miners in recent history.

A NEW video of 33 miners trapped under Chile’s Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food and breaking into tears as they mention loved ones.

A new video of 33 men trapped in San Jose Mine under Chile's Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food and breaking into tears as they mention loved ones.

MINERS trapped deep in a Chilean mine have sent video footage showing them in good spirits, as their families filed the first of potentially many lawsuits against the shaft owner.

Three groups of rescuers are searching for 34 miners trapped since Thursday in a collapsed gold mine in northern Chile.

Seismologists say a strong earthquake has hit in northern Chile.

A magnitude-6.0 earthquake has rocked northern Chile.

Chile’s police chief and 10 others were killed when the ageing Panamanian government helicopter in which they were travelling crashed into a three-storey building in Panama City.

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.

A MAJOR earthquake struck northern Chile last night, toppling power lines, closing roads and sending terrified residents into the streets.

A bus carrying tourists from a cruise ship plunged more than 100 yards into a mountain ravine in northern Chile, killing 12 Americans and seriously injuring two others.

A TEAM of European and American astronomers said over the weekend that they had for the first time directly observed a planet outside of our solar system.

Six police officers have died after their small plane crashed while they were on their way to investigate a road accident that claimed 22 lives in northern Chile.

A bus carrying workers to a copper mine collided head-on with a truck in northern Chile today, killing 22 people.

At least 47 people were killed as a powerful earthquake shook southern Peru, sending dozens of homes, churches and buildings tumbling to the ground.