It took Ian Lacey 452 days to travel from the northern most road of North America to the southern most road of South America, reports Megan Specia

The death toll in the earthquake that struck Peru’s southern desert has risen to 450 with about 1,500 injured, a senior UN official said today, quoting figures from the National Disaster Management Authority in Peru.

Twenty people have been killed after a passenger bus collided head-on with a lorry on Peru's Pan American highway.