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PERU
Three members of an alleged cult accused of sacrificing a baby to save the world ahead of December's supposed Mayan apocalypse have surrendered.
At least 33 people have died and 10 others were injured after a bus plunged 200m down a ravine in northern Peru.
Police in Peru say a passenger bus has plunged off an Andean highway into a river, killing at least 27 people.
A helicopter with 13 people aboard, headed to a Perenco oil production facility, has crashed into a jungle in north-eastern Peru, and there were no signs of survivors, the company says.
At least 24 people, most of them mine workers, have been killed when their bus plunged into a ravine in southern Peru, local police say.
Record rain in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa has caused serious flooding that authorities say has killed at least 6 people and inundated hundreds of homes.
Strapping a giant condor to the back of a raging bull is a central part of an Andean festival celebrated in Peru but some people worried about the endangered vulture's future.
A report says that Joran van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima.
The South African adventurer who survived an attack by two armed bandits in Peru has arrived home and is recuperating in Durban.
A woman who discovered her boyfriend had been cheating on her sliced off his penis with a kitchen knife as he slept and tossed it down the toilet, reports local media.
Doctors in Peru have decided against operating to remove a shotgun pellet lodged in the heart of a Durban adventurer who was shot by bandits in the Peruvian jungle.
Peruvian doctors are waiting for test results to decide if they will operate on a Durban man who was shot by jungle bandits while paddling the Amazon.
Two American mountaineers who went missing on a climb in Peru earlier this month have been found dead.
Rescue teams are searching for two 29-year-old US mountaineers who have not been heard from since mid-July when they set off to climb a mountain of northern Peru.
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a sundial, an underground tunnel and a reception room in a complex dating back to the Wari civilisation.
