News: North and South America

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Police say two men are dead and another is wounded after a gunman fired shots at a car dealership in Western Canada.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a stinging rebuke to Israel over new settlements in East Jerusalem.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti on Sunday to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said.

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A Brazilian judge has ordered Air France to pay the equivalent of more than $1 million in damages to the family of one of the victims of last year's crash that killed more than 200 people, officials said Friday.

A US woman is charged with murder over the killing of a truck driver's assistant who won $17m in a lottery in 2006.

HAVANA (AP) -- A Cuban hunger striker was receiving fluids and medical care in a government hospital Friday, a day after passing out at home, and has refused requests by other dissidents and religious leaders to abandon his protest.

Five same-sex couples tie the knot in Mexico City under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage.

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SAO PAULO (AP) -- Nearly 50 passengers aboard an international cruise ship docked in Brazil have been stricken with vomiting and diarrhea, a health official said Friday. It was the same ship that last week was briefly placed under quarantine after hundreds of people came down with gastroenteritis.

US retail sales showed a surprise rise in February as consumers braved extreme bad weather to get to the shops

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example.

A report into the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers criticises senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses.

Speculation is growing that Tiger Woods will make his return to competitive golf within the next month.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen burst into a wake in the border city of Ciudad Juarez on Thursday and opened fire, killing 5 young men and wounding five others, including a 10-year-old girl.

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The first Mexican opera to deal directly with the country's drugs conflict stages its premiere in Mexico City.

New York City agrees to pay up to $657m (£437m) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers at the 9/11 attacks site.

The Vancouver Games forecasting system is part of a program to improve the accuracy of short-term, winter storm forecasting.

Former US President George W Bush's advisor, Karl Rove, says he is proud of waterboarding as he believes it prevented attacks.