AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is heading to Haiti on Sunday for his second visit since the devastating earthquake to prepare for the upcoming donors conference to raise money for reconstruction.

AP - Chile may need to spend twice as much as Haiti to recover from its devastating quake and tsunami, but it doesn't have the same desperate need for international aid or generous loans.

Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti on Sunday to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said.

AP - Peruvian officials say they expect train service to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu will be restored March 29.

AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.

AFP - Newly installed Chilean President Sebastian Pinera estimated Friday it would cost 30 billion dollars to rebuild the nation after last month's devastating quake.

AP - The last of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping is facing a new charge.

AFP - Two months after Haiti's January 12 earthquake, aids groups were still scrambling Friday to provide for the 1.3 million people left homeless amid growing insecurity in Port-au-Prince.

AP - Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example.

AFP - Strong aftershocks and a tsunami alert rattled nerves in Chile, as rightwing billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president of the quake-hit nation.

Peru is creating a tsunami-warning system to help protect 1.6 million residents who live along the South American country's Pacific coast.

Portuguese police have arrested a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA in Lisbon as he tried to board a flight to the Venezuelan capital Caracas, Spanish media reported Friday.

A Rio de Janeiro State Judge Thursday ordered Air France to pay $1.15 million in compensation to the family of a state official who died in the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet into the Atlantic.

Amalia Saez is mayor of the industrial city of Barquisimeto in northwestern Venezuela.

Lula Says Brazil In Good Shape RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that his country is in good shape thanks to eight years of efforts to improve the economy.

President Barack Obama is applauding Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for accepting a court decision that prevents him from running for a third term.

The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed by weather conditions and trouble getting a search ship to Brazil, officials said Thursday.

Online vacation rental giant HomeAway this morning announced that it is expanding its global footprint and moving into South America with the acquisition of the publisher of AlugueTemporada.com.br , Brazil's leading vacation rental site.

Charlotte/Douglas International Airport plans to begin design work next month on a 120-foot extension of Concourse E, which will include two new gates for international flights.

The Red Cross has doubled its aid appeal for Chileans made homeless by last month's massive earthquake, saying the costs of the disaster will be greater than anticipated.

The Earth really did move during last month's massive Chile quake, which killed hundreds of people and left two million homeless.

President Michelle Bachelet leaves office on Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins - and her popularity in the clouds.

's presidency Thursday, has sustained the record 84-percent approval rate despite strong criticism of government performance during the nation's earthquake emergency, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Brazil's president says a recent health scare led him to quit smoking - a habit he's had for 50 years.

They may have a better understanding of what we want to do, Bernardo Figueiredo, head of the National Land Transport Agency, known as ANTT, said in an interview from Brasilia.