In a rare move, some Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to help protect US President Barack Obama at a regional summit have been sent home amid accusations of a sex scandal, officials and reports

A 10-year-old Colombian girl has sparked outrage after becoming one of the world's youngest mothers by giving birth to a healthy daughter, it has been reported.

The girl, a member of the northern ind

Colombia's leftist FARC rebels on Monday freed a group of 10 police officers and soldiers they had held hostage for more than 12 years, a Red Cross spokeswoman said.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of

Seven people were killed and some 70 wounded when suspected leftist rebels detonated explosives near a police station in the southwestern town of Tumaco on Wednesday, Red Cross officials said.

Four p

A poor neighbourhood on the western mountainside of the Colombian city of Medellin has been installed with outdoor escalators to solve the problem of people getting up and down steep terrain.

The esc

In a proverbial battle of the sexes, women of Barbacoas, Colombia, have banned their men from having sex with them until they start construction on a new road.

Over 300 women have joined the protest,

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped at least 23 employees of a subcontractor for Canada's Talisman energy on Monday in Eastern Colombia, according to a spokesperson for the oil firm.

Bogota, Colombia: Colombian soldiers have for the first time seized a fully submersible drug-smuggling submarine capable of reaching the coast of Mexico, authorities announced on Monday.

Last July, a

Miscreants set fire to a Catholic church in the Colombian capital city of Bogota on Thursday, authorities said.

Octavio Mora, the parish priest in the Galan neighbourhood church, said the blaze was a

Colombian authorities say leftist rebels firing home-made mortars killed at least six police and wounded four in a pre-dawn attack at the country's border with Ecuador.

Police Gen Orlando Paez says