Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist.

La denuncia internacional que el gobierno colombiano prepara contra Venezuela por la voladura de dos puentes fronterizos es "una nueva provocación'' y una "manipulación más'' de las autoridades del país vecino, declaró el vicepresidente venezolano y ministro de Defensa, Ramón Carrizalez.

A Mexican once put forward for the title of world's oldest woman has died at 119, government officials said Thursday.

It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay.