An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off Chile’s coast on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but local authorities said there was no immediate report of any damage. Continue reading →

Hundreds of thousands of tourists scattered across the north Chilean desert on Tuesday to experience a total eclipse of the sun viewed from beneath the world’s clearest skies. Continue reading →

Six Brazilian tourists were found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning Wednesday inside an old apartment where they were staying in central Santiago. Continue reading →

Halton police say the investigation kicked off in early May after a tip from Montreal Police. Continue reading →

Cermaq Canada says the Nova Scotia government has granted the company four options to lease sites in the Chedabucto Bay region along the eastern shore, and in the St. Mary’s region south of Digby. Continue reading →

The ‘proto-supercluster’ of galaxies nicknamed Hyperion has a mass 1 million billion times greater than the sun and is so distant that it is viewed from earth as it looked billions of years ago. Continue reading →

The new claims are included in a memo by Carol Merchasin, a lawyer who oversaw a preliminary investigation into the initial claims against Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Continue reading →

Pope Francis dug deeper into the roots of Chile’s sex abuse scandal by meeting with a group of priests who were trained in a cult-like Catholic community and suffered psychological and sexual abuse there. Continue reading →

Pope Francis became the first pope to publicly denounce a “culture of abuse and cover-up” in the Catholic Church. Continue reading →