DR to Haitians: get lost

Discrimination gets worse for Haiti's earthquake victims.

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Some Haitians would rather return to what they left behind. Above, an impromptu street market in the Haitian capital after the earthquake. (Chris Hondros/AFP/Getty Images)

Haitians have worn out their welcome in the Dominican Republic.

Hurricane Irene barrels toward Florida (VIDEO)

News DeskAugust 23, 2011 06:48

Hurricane Irene heads for Haiti after direct hit on Puerto Rico

News DeskAugust 22, 2011 09:02

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Haiti — where hundreds of thousands of people still live in tents after an earthquake last year killed up to 230,000 people — is directly in Irene's path.

Haitian camps brace for massive storm

News DeskAugust 4, 2011 02:48

Cyclone Emily is headed towards makeshift camps in Haiti when around 300,000 impoverished Haitians are living following the January 2010 earthquake.

Displaced Haitians protest evictions in capital

News DeskAugust 1, 2011 19:29

Several dozen people set up tents and even laid down in the street.

5.5-magnitude aftershock hits New Zealand (VIDEO)

News DeskJune 6, 2011 08:43

The Canterbury Quake Live website reported the shake was the sixth largest since a 7.1-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand last September, the BBC reports.

Stephanie GarlowMay 25, 2011 12:28

World peace, mapped

Want to know the world's most peaceful countries?

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(David Silverman/Getty Images)

The Global Peace Index is out today. Its modest goal: rank the nations of the world by their peacefulness.

Iceland came in first, knocking off New Zealand. And Somalia took last place, with Iraq moving up to second-to-last.

Overall, the world is slightly less peaceful than last year.

The index uses 23 indicators, including military expenditures, prison population, potential for terrorist acts and level of violent crime.

Here's how some of the Latin American countries fared:

Stephanie GarlowMay 17, 2011 14:49

Cholera alert in Dominican Republic

An outbreak that began in October grows worse.

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A boy walks before a facility where trash and waste from a hospital that treats cholera victims is burned near Port-au-Prince, March 23, 2011. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)

An upsurge in new cholera cases has prompted the Dominican Republic to declare a state of alert in areas of the capital.

Sixteen people have been hospitalized with suspected cholera cases, and there have been two deaths in recent days, reports the BBC.

More than 4,500 have died in neighboring Haiti from cholera since last October, according to the United Nations.

Monitoring has been increased in 17 mainly poor neighborhoods in Santo Domingo. The health ministry is urging people to take extra care with hygiene.

Neither Haiti nor the Dominican Republic had had a confirmed case of cholera in more than a century until the outbreak began in October.

Swiss banks holding $1 billion in assets of Gaddafi and Co.

News DeskMay 3, 2011 16:20

Switzerland has been trying to combat the reputation of being a haven for stolen assets of autocrats.