A fishing trip turned into a three-week fight for survival for two men, who drifted under an intense Caribbean sun for hundreds of miles in a small boat with a broken motor.

The US Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding.

A BOEING 737 jetliner with 131 people aboard crashed as it prepared to land and broke into three pieces at a Colombian island in the Caribbean early yesterday. The region’s governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.

Some 130 passengers and crew escaped alive after their airliner crashed and broke into pieces landing on a Caribbean island today.

TROPICAL Storm Beta was last night heading toward an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua, forcing the evacuations of hundreds of tourists and residents in its path.