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Footage emerges of British gap year student Henry Miller moments before he took hallucinogenic drug that cost him his life ...

Hundreds of waiters take part in an annual race in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires where they have to try and walk as fast as possible without knocking over drinks and glasses on their trays ...

Gunfights and killings in shanty towns have escalated just weeks before the World Cup begins in Brazil ...

British national Henry Miller reportedly found dead on side of the road by police after taking the hallucinogenic yage in Colombia ...

Henry Miller, a 19-year-old from Bristol who was due to start university in September, died after taking hallucinogenic drugs as part of a tribal ritual in South America ...

A trainee police officer in Brazil sends classmates scrambling for cover as she practices ...

Protests continue in Copacabana beach neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro after the burial of Douglas Pereira, whose shooting death sparked clashes with police and residents of the Pavao-Pavaozinho favela ...

An ex-Mexican football commentator shares his football miscellanea ...

From One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Alchemist ...

The World Cup trophy arrives in Brazil to begin a national tour after travelling around 88 countries ...

The latest unrest to threaten this year's World Cup began after slum residents blamed police for the death of a dancer ...

Footage of a shadowy figure running quickly through the stands during a football match in Bolivia spooks fans and goes viral ...

Violent scenes as riot police clash with protestors in Rio de Janeiro ...

Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana neighbourhood is stricken with gunfire, vandalism and burning trash as residents blame police for the death of a neighbourhood dancer ...

Copacabana is due to welcome hundreds of thousands of tourists in less than two months when Brazil hosts the World Cup ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's home in Colombia has become a site of pilgrimage, following the death on Thursday of the much-loved author ...

Colombian author praised as a literary giant who changed Latin Americans' thinking, after his death at the age of 87 ...

Increased activity of Ubinas volcano in southern Peru leads to state of emergency with 4,000 people and their 30,000 animals told to evacuate ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author, is remembered fondly in the Colombian city of Cartagena, where he began his career as a writer and kept a home ...

Master of 'Magic Realism' whose bestsellers included One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera ...