Colombia slowly recovering from flooding, mudslides
Flooding and mudslides in central Colombia have killed at least 11 people, the Red Cross said Wednesday, causing alarm in a country still recovering from mudslides that killed hundreds.
Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun Colombia, flooding, mudslides, weather
Flooding and mudslides in central Colombia have killed at least 11 people, the Red Cross said Wednesday, causing alarm in a country still recovering from mudslides that killed hundreds.
Caroline Pate 0 Comment Americas, World Christmas, Colombia, holidays, Latin America
Locals light candles at the “Jardines de la Aurora” cemetery in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on December 7, 2016, during the celebration of the Day of the Candles — one of the most important religious holidays in Colombia which marks the beginning of the Christmas holidays.
Quinn Kelley 0 Comment Sports, World Brazil, Chapecoense soccer team, Colombia, plane crash, soccer
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) — A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match in its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces, killing 71 people and leaving six survivors, officials said Tuesday.
Matt Bracken 0 Comment World Colombia, hippos, Pablo Escobar
More than 20 years after drug lord Pablo Escobar died in a gunfight with police, a strange legacy survives him: his pet hippos. Escobar bought four hippos from a zoo in California and flew them to his ranch in the early 1980s. Left to themselves on his Napoles Estate, they bred to become supposedly the biggest wild hippo herd outside Africa — a local curiosity and a hazard. Estimates put them at about 35 in the area nowadays.
Matt Bracken 0 Comment Americas, The Baltimore Sun, World Colombia, Tomatina festival, tomato fight
People participate in the 10th annual tomato fight festival, known as “tomatina”, in Sutamarchan, Boyaca department, Colombia.
Matt Bracken 0 Comment Americas, The Baltimore Sun, World Colombia, weight loss
Oscar Vasquez Morales, 44, weighs about 880 pounds and is considered the fattest man in Colombia. He is expected to lose 660 pounds in the next three or four years after to a medical procedure.
Christina Tkacik 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun Colombia, lion airlift, Peru, South Africa
Animal Defenders International organized the largest airlift of lions ever this week, flying 33 former circus lions from Peru and Colombia to a sanctuary in South Africa. The lions will spend their golden years at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater, South Africa.
Quinn Kelley 0 Comment World Christianity, Colombia, Easter, Good Friday, India, Italy, Kenya, London, Pakistan, Pope Francis, religion
Christians across the globe will celebrate Easter throughout this weekend, including Good Friday, when according to Christian tradition Jesus Christ was crucified and died.
Steve Earley 0 Comment Daily Brief, World art, bikes, biking, boxing, Catholicism, Colombia, Cuba, cycling, England, fashion, Florida, France, Hungary, Islam, Japan, lighthouse, lighthouses, London, Mecca, migrants, Panama, Paris, Pope Francis, rain, religion, Saudi Arabia, sports, United Kingdom, water, weather
The day in photos around the world.