The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
The Sofía Vergara vehicle paints a sympathetic picture of the cocaine queen,but her story is as brutal as it is,at times,bizarre.
Police thought they were responding to a break and enter at a Sydney unit complex. Instead,they stumbled across an alleged kidnapping attempt and a 722kg drug haul.
When Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar died,most of his exotic animals died or were transferred to zoos. Not his four hippopotamuses:they thrived ... Perhaps a little too well.
Luis Manuel Diaz’s kidnapping on October 28 in the small town of Barrancas by members of the National Liberation Army drew international attention.
The incident has captured Colombia’s attention,but it also has stoked fears of increasing insecurity in a nation where such kidnappings were becoming less common.
The wave of both short- and long-term visitors in Colombia’s Medellin is creating unique challenges because it happened virtually overnight.
The killing of the seven suspects happened a little more than a week before Ecuador holds a presidential run-off election and as officials struggle to explain how this was possible.
Colombian artist Fernando Botero,whose sculptures and paintings of playful,rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world’s richest artists,has died at 91.
Six Colombian nationals with gang links have been arrested over the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
Numerous studies have indicated that further deforestation would transform the Amazon into a net emitter of greenhouse gases and be disastrous to the planet.