Rosalba OBrien

Highways have been blocked, hundreds of prisoners have escaped from a penitentiary and five people have died after an earthquake struck Chile.

Cristina Fernandez (Kirchner) begins a second four-year term as Argentina’s President with the country’s economy shadowed by the financial crisis.

BAE Systems will pay about $450-million in fines in the United States and Britain, settling long-running corruption investigations.