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Uber supporters say court case could legalize ride-hailing service in Costa Rica

While the Sala IV analyzes the complaint, drivers for unlicensed transportation services like Uber essentially have free reign to do business.

Sea Butterfly Evolution Reveals Underwater Flight Patterns

The aptly-named Arctic "sea butterfly" (Limacina helicina), a species of sea snail, uses the same biomechanics as animals that fly through the air.

UPDATE: Suspect in slaying of US-Costa Rican family captured in Nicaragua

Nicaraguan police presented a handcuffed Michael Adrián Salmerón Silva -- the principal suspect in the killing of five members of a family in Guanacaste, Costa Rica -- at a Saturday news conference.

Costa Rica women’s Olympic hopes dashed in 3-1 loss to Canada

The Costa Rican women's football team fell one win short of reaching the Olympics for the first time in its history with a 3-1 loss to Canada Friday.

Mosquito spreading Zika has long been one of the world’s ‘most efficient killers’

It fits easily onto a single fingernail, and yet has tormented armies and obliterated the population of entire cities.

Special home financing offered at Construction and Housing Expo this week

Several financial institutions have announced their terms and conditions for financing options they are offering this week at the Construction and Housing Expo at the Pedregal Events Center in Belén, Heredia, on housing projects ranging from $45,000 to more than $1 million dollars.

Fishing industry, conservationists both wary of Solís stance on shark protections

President Luis Guillermo Solís was forced this week to defend his administration's record on shark protections before a group of international shark experts.

Costa Rica court convicts U.S. investor of fraud

The long, strange ordeal that Cyrus Sepehr refers to as "something out of a movie" took a turn for the worse Thursday when a San José court convicted him on five counts of fraud in a failed real estate deal.

World Bank: Zika will cost Latin America $3.5 billion in 2016

Most of the projected losses to the region take the form of foregone income from tourists — especially pregnant women — who might cancel their trips out of concern that contracting the virus could lead to birth defects.

With abortion banned in Zika countries, women beg on web for abortion pills

"I want to ask for help because I'm overcome by fear that my baby will be born sick."

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