South America

FIFTEEN years after he patented caller ID technology, Brazilian inventor Nelio Jose Nicolai is still waiting for his millions.

THE death toll from the January nightclub fire in Brazil is now 240, after another victim died of his injuries in hospital.

VENEZUELA’S foreign minister has demanded that President Hugo Chavez be allowed to recover in peace.

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez is fighting for his life in a Caracas military hospital 10 days after returning from cancer treatment in Cuba.

A FIRE has killed at least four people in a neighbourhood near Chile’s capital and a 2-month old baby is missing amid the rubble.

A MODERATE 5.7 earthquake has struck off Chile, but there are no reports of damage or a tsunami.

THE Catholic World Youth Day festival will be held in July in Rio as scheduled despite the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

FOUR people died when a float at the end of a Brazilian Carnival parade ran into a power line and caught fire

REGULATORS in Brazil reject tech giant’s application to register iPhone trademark, having already recognised a local claim to name.

A MAN has gone to extraordinary measures to protect his car from a freak hail storm in Argentina.

HOURS after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1000 people, locals in California and Cuba witnessed unusual flashes of light.

CARPETS soaked in urine, sewerage leaking down the walls, no air conditioning. This wasn’t the cruise 98-year-old Sian Tjia was expecting.