Terry Wade

Chile’s 33 newly rescued miners recovered from their ordeal on Thursday while also pondering the celebrity status they have gained.

Chilean rescuers hoisted 33 trapped miners to safety on Wednesday as millions watched around the globe.

The first of Chile’s 33 trapped miners were pulled to safety in a capsule barely wider than a man’s shoulders early on Wednesday.

An extract from <i>M&G</i> Centre for Investigative Journalism associate partner Adriaan Basson’s book on defeated former top cop Jackie Selebi.

Rescuers successfully tested a capsule to hoist Chile’s 33 trapped miners to freedom and aim to start evacuating them on Tuesday night.

Aftershocks rattled Chile on Friday, panicking residents nearly a week after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record devastated coastal towns.

Aftershocks rattled south-central Chile on Friday, seven days after one of the strongest earthquakes on record ravaged the area.

Chilean rescue crews fanned out with sniffer dogs on Wednesday around quake-ravaged cities and villages, still hoping to find survivors.

The Shining Path rebel group, which led a bloody civil war in the 1980s, has expanded its foothold in Peru’s cocaine trade to run lucrative drug labs.

Rescue planes found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger jet on Saturday, a day after it disappeared with 155 people on board over the Amazon jungle, Brazil’s airport authority…