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El Salvador said a quarter of the rain that the country normally receives in a year fell in 70 hours.
The 21-year-old said “it was hard the whole time I was inside.”
An image of Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter went viral last week.
Evelyn Hernandez was accused of murdering her baby after she gave birth in a makeshift bathroom in her home.
The Brazil captain felt he was harshly booked during his side’s rout of El Salvador in Washington
The Brazilian great is set to wipe out Real Valladolid’s €25m debt and become club president.
She had served 15 years of her sentence, imposed when she was 19 years old.
Pope Paul VI will also be sainted.
Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz faces a 30-year sentence.
A number of people entered his enclosure and stabbed him a number of times.
The human rights group has said more must be done to tackle what is fast-becoming another out-of-control refugee crisis.
“We have our grandson – and he looks like his father.”
The Central American country of El Salvador is experiencing tidal changes, freak weather and economic disruption because of climate change, forcing activists and social movements to respond, writes Paul Dillon.
16 other women remain in jail, accused of having abortions.
The country has one of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the world.
In El Salvador, one of only nine countries in the world that has a total ban on abortion, suicide accounts for 57% of all deaths of pregnant girls aged under 19.
The man washed up on Thursday and said he has been floating in the Pacific since September 2012.
Her fellow nuns say they are “very surprised”.
A yellow alert has been issued an investigators are looking for signs of fresh and lava.
President Michael D Higgins brings the curtain down on a landmark tour of Central America with some final meetings in Costa Rica today.
As President Michael D Higgnins arrives in El Salvador today, Paul Dillon writes a profile of the Central American Republic.
Higgins departed from Dublin Airport yesterday morning as he embarks on an official visit to Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica.
President Higgins left this morning for his official visit to Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica.
A 22-year-old critically ill pregnant woman, whose foetus has been given no chance of surviving, has been denied an abortion after judges rejected her lawyers’ appeal that the pregnancy was life-threatening.
Dr Oliver Moore travelled to the Latin American country with Trócaire to see local communities becoming empowered to fight for a clean environment, and for sustainable development.
Dr Oliver Moore travelled to El Salvador with Trócaire to see how rising sea levels have affected this coastal community – and how they can be helped.
The warning affected parts of many Central American countries, but the biggest wave registered a mere four inches.
The Irish team’s group rivals, Germany, are in action, as they take on Argentina.
The scandal-plagued Secret Service is probing fresh allegations about agents’ actions on another Latin America trip last year.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the globe.
El Salvador and Nicaragua declared natural disasters yesterday, as landslides and floods continue to devastate the region.
Denis O’Brien’s Honduras and El Salvador telecommunications businesses are to be acquired by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim – recently named as the world’s richest man by Forbes.
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