Tico Times

In step with others in the self-help genre, Zeledón brands her heartbreaking travails in the most didactic way possible.

Latin America's first pope also urged Catholics to reject the "ephemeral idols" of money, power and success.

The new report from the U.N. Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean adjusted its growth estimate down to 3 percent from 3.5 percent last April.

No fewer than six British kings have borne the name "George."

"In Love," by Alfred Hayes, recently reissued; "Light Years," by James Salter; and Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair."

Results bolstered the view that Apple can withstand increased competition and saturation in the smartphone market.

When the Taliban was toppled nearly 12 years ago in Afghanistan, a small number of biologists saw an opportunity on the margins of the war effort. The country's far reaches had barely been examined and were thought to contain some of the world's least understood species. But studying them would require complex, and sometimes tense, negotiations with some of the world's most isolated people.

Interpol: More than 6,000 people around the world were arrested in a two-month anti-counterfeiting sweep that netted tens of millions of dollars worth of fake shampoo in China, phony cigarettes in Turkey and bogus booze in Chile.

President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday rejected the involvement of a leftist mediator in the handover of Sutay, potentially complicating his release.

The new third in line to the British throne was born at the central London hospital at 4:24 p.m. on Monday.