Joran van der Sloot, the young man suspected in the case Natalee Holloway, the blonde American teenager from Alabama who went missing in Aruba in 2005, has been formally charged in Peru with murder in another case.

First Catalonia outlawed bullfighting, which the Economist likened it to a German state banning wurst or a French region condemning berets.

Now Peru's minister of culture has said the sport is "terrible" and that it causes excessive suffering for the animals.

So is bullfighting on the way out? Is it a "tradition of tragedy," as PETA claims, that kills 250,000 bulls annually?

Officials from Brazil’s Indian affairs agency, Funai, say they have confirmed the existence of a previously unknown indigenous group in the western Amazon, one of the remotest corners of the rainforest. The tribe was first discovered by examining satellite images to look for rain forest clearings and then it was confirmed by aerial reconnaissance flights earlier this year, National Geographic reported.

Update: Protesters in Peru's Puno region agreed to halt demonstrations until after Sunday's presidential run-off.

As North African countries can attest, revolts tend to drive away tourist dollars.

Thousands of protesters in Peru have shut down an international border with Bolivia. They've blocked roads into the regional capital of Puno, where they torched cars and looted buildings.

The protesters, who are mostly members of the Aymara indigneous group, oppose plans to build a silver mine near Lake Titicaca.

And hundreds of tourists remain trapped in Puno, a tourist town on the shores of the lake.