In 2010, Mexico led the way, followed by Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina and ColombiaWhat are those weird ingredients in our favorite packaged foods?Candy lines every inch of the mercado de dulces in Mexico City’s historic center. Tantalizing strawberry-flavored chocolates and Tajín-covered mango gummies pack the narrow aisles of the meandering...

Communities around the Pueblo Viejo mine complain of serious health problems and a diminished environment and have spent years campaigning to be relocatedIn the shadow of El Llagal, a tailings dam that holds waste from one of the world’s largest goldmines in the Dominican Republic, sits the home of Casilda Lima. The roof is corrugated iron and the walls...

Minister lays out details day after damning report found NHS and government culpable for scandalInfected blood scandal compensation details – latest updatesAn estimated multibillion pound scheme to compensate UK victims of the contaminated blood scandal and their families by the end of the year has been announced, the day after a damning report found...

Victims and families have praised former high court judge for his compassion, and willingness to hold those in power to accountUK politics live – latest updatesA lawyer might seem an unlikely hero, but for many infected blood victims that’s exactly how they see the author of the public inquiry’s damning final report, Sir Brian Langstaff.The former high...

Video of fetus in disembodied womb required viewing for students in two states, as classroom becomes latest front in post-Roe abortion warsAwash in soft, peach-colored light, the infant yawns, sticks her thumb in her mouth and flutters her eyes at the camera. As the camera pulls away from her, an umbilical cord and the fleshy tunnel surrounding the...

Mel Stride, work and pensions secretary, says possibility of prosecution will need to be ‘carefully looked at’ as Commons statement due on compensationA cabinet minister has said Ken Clarke has questions to answer after campaigners said he should lose his peerage over his role in the infected blood scandal.Clarke, who was a health minister and health...