A wealthy Venezuelan businessman went on trial on charges that he was part of a scheme to conceal the source of cash for political spending that was carried in a suitcase into Argentina.

The National Electoral Court has annulled a decree by President Evo Morales to hold a referendum Dec. 7 on a proposed new constitution.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil dipped his hands on Tuesday in the first oil from vast new reserves.

The Defense Department said it transferred one prisoner to Pakistan and two to Afghanistan.

Landowners campaign to change a provincial law that allows anyone who pays the equivalent of $23.50 to dig for pretty much any mineral on private property in much of rural Ontario.