Brazil's Supreme Court voted to legalize abortions of severely brain-damaged fetuses, loosening the law in the world's biggest Catholic country and a region where the spread of evangelical denominations in recent decades has maintained fierce opposition to abortion rights.
A strong earthquake hit Mexico on Wednesday, shaking buildings in the capital and sending people running out of offices onto the streets, though there were no early reports of major damage.
The nine miners who were trapped since last Thursday in the Cabeza de Negro mine in Ica, southern Peru, were successfully rescued today, Peruvian media informed.