Pope Francis has decreed that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was killed in 1980 out of hatred for his Catholic faith, approving a martyrdom declaration that sets the stage for his beatification.

Twelve critically endangered iguanas seized from Romanian smugglers at Heathrow Airport have been returned to their native Bahamas.

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President Michael D Higgins has arrived in El Salvador for the second leg of his South American trip.

President Michael D. Higgins is continuing his 11-day trip to Central America where he has been making a number of links with the business community.

IF Savita Halappanavar had been pregnant and in difficulty in El Salvador, doctors would have been legally obliged to leave her die.

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Flooding and landslides from the season’s first tropical storm have killed at least 150 people and left thousands homeless in Central America, officials said today.

The death toll in Central America from landslides and flooding triggered by the year's first tropical storm surged to 99 as authorities struggled to clear roads of debris and reach cut-off communities.

Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Guatemala and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides and killing at least 12.

Rescuers dug through rock and debris today in hope of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide, part of a wave of floods that killed at least 124 people in El Salvador.

Mud and boulders loosened by days of heavy rain swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people.

EL SALVADOR’S interior minister said the death toll is now 91 from floods and landslides touched off by three days of heavy rains.

A LEFTIST television journalist made history by bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since the end of a bloody civil war and promised yesterday to unite the country after a bitter presidential campaign.

A leftist television journalist won El Salvador’s presidential elections, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule.

Tropical Storm Hanna roared past the edge of the Bahamas today before a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti.

Tropical Storm Hanna roared along the edge of the Bahamas today, ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 61 dead in Haiti.

Gun fragments, photos, combat plans and mountain hideouts. These are the latest tourist attractions in formerly war-torn El Salvador.

Authorities in El Salvador said today they had evacuated 90 people near the Guatemalan border after 193 small earthquakes caused minor damage to homes and widespread panic.

Vodafone Derby-winning rider Martin Dwyer opened his seasonal account in Dubai at the fourth attempt when partnering Gabanna to victory over stable companion Tri Another Cat at Nad Al Sheba this evening.

A strong earthquake rocked El Salvador tonight.

Rescue workers in Guatemala say they have pulled at least 40 bodies from a massive mudslide and found 20 more dead in a swollen river, raising to 246 the number of people killed from five days of pounding rains in Central America and Mexico.

Rescue workers today searched for victims of a mudslide near a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists in Guatemala, as the death toll from flooding sparked by heavy rains climbed to 79 across the country and 65 in neighbouring El Salvador.

Hurricane Stan knocked down trees, ripped roofs off homes and washed out bridges in south-eastern Mexico – but the storms it helped spawn proved far more destructive, killing more than 65 people in Central America.

Hurricane Adrian slammed into El Salvador's coast today, President Tony Saca said, cutting off power and forcing officials to close schools and evacuate 14,000 people.

A bus crashed off a mountain road and toppled into a ravine in eastern El Salvador today, killing 34 people and injuring 24 others, officials said.

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Paul McCartney wants McDonald’s restaurants to apply their British animal welfare standards to its outlets worldwide.

The people of El Salvador gathered to mark the first anniversary of a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on January 13, last year, killing 844 people.

Another earthquake has hit El Salvador, forcing people panicked by two earlier quakes to flee into the streets.

The death toll in El Salvador's earthquake has reached 255 with at least 2,261 reported injured

More than 200 people have been killed and 2,000 injured in the second earthquake to hit El Salvador this year.

At least 173 people have died following the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings in El Salvador.

At least two people have been killed in an earthquake in El Salvador just weeks after more than 800 died in a January tremor.

A strong earthquake has hit El Salvador.

El Salvador has asked people to evacuate their homes after three small earthquakes shook the country.

El Salvador has asked people to evacuate their homes after three small earthquakes shook the country.

Helicopters have lowered rescuers into the crater of a volcano in the continuing search for survivors of the El Salvador earthquake.

A child is one of the latest survivors to be found by rescuers following El Salvador's earthquake.

Europe is sending to £1.27m in emergency aid to provide shelter, clean water and sanitation to victims of the El Salvador earthquake.

Strong aftershocks have sent rescuers fleeing from the search for survivors of the El Salvador earthquake.

As a massive rescue operation continues in the wake of Saturday’s earthquake in Central America, the President of El Salvador has made an international appeal for coffins.