Peru
LIMA, Peru - Peruvian mountain rescue police brought the body of acclaimed freeskier Arne Backstrom down off 5,752-meter (18,780-foot) Pisco mountain Saturday, two days after he died in a high-altitude fall.
LIMA, Peru - "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru.
PARIS - One story about Diego Maradona is that when he was a toddler, squeezed with his large family into a three-room shack in a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires, he fell one dark night into their cesspit and had to be rescued by his uncle Cirilo.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - On the streets and in Buenos Aires' pubs, a great mystery is baffling almost everyone.
