Strong winds blowing across Costa Rica this week have downed power lines, blown over trees and sparked maritime warnings over high winds and rough seas.
Top research institutions, funders and publishers said Wednesday they would make all scientific findings on the Zika virus assailing Latin America available speedily and free.
Costa Rican authorities busted a ring Wednesday that used speedboats and fishing vessels to smuggle in cocaine from Colombia and Ecuador, officials said.
The bound body of journalist Anabel Flores Salazar was discovered on Tuesday with her head covered in bags in the state of Puebla. She was a 32-year-old mother of two, snatched from her home in the middle of the night.
Embattled former head of Costa Rican football Eduardo Li saw his bail request denied in a New York courtroom Wednesday morning. Prosecutors want him to pay at least double what his legal team offered.
Costa Rica vehemently denied rumors in Cuban migrant camps that the government was involved in a price-fixing scheme to increase the price of the tickets.
Scientists will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss the latest in their hunt for gravitational waves, whose existence Albert Einstein predicted in his theory of general relativity 100 years ago.
Early projections showed political novice Donald Trump and self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire's presidential primaries Tuesday.
