Cinco de Mayo is Monday, May 5. Cinco de Mayo — Spanish for “Fifth of May” — commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be ...

People attending a traditional Easter Sunday parade in southern Spain shot and burned an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump during the celebration.  The “Quema de Judas” (“Burning of Judas”) ...

IT’S the zombie drug that has left parts of American cities looking apocalyptic. Homeless drug addicts living in makeshift ...

Pope Francis is currently lying in state at a private viewing at the Vatican, with a public viewing at St Peter's Basilica to ...

In a region packed with historically important cities, few can claim to have played such a long and pivotal role as Puebla.

The 22-year-old singer from Spain blends modernity and castanets at the Californian festival as part of a lineup that also ...

Leo Beenhakker, who has died aged 82, was one of the leading football managers of the 1980s, notably steering Real Madrid to ...

People often forget the Panhandle part of the Sunshine State - but they are missing out. A roadtrip along the route where Europeans left their first traces - plus two cities with a lengthy colonial ...

Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima at age 89, was a protagonist of the Latin American Boom, a chronicler of his time, and a ...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday ...

From dyes to additives and more, there are certain ingredients - and therefore American foods - that are banned in other ...