A man armed with a rifle took walked into a Workers Compensation Board office in the Western Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, on Wednesday and took several people hostage, police said. As many as nine people were being held captive in the downtown...

Dawn in the Amazon rainforest, and even through the early morning mist the scars of deforestation can be seen. In the Amazonian state of Para, years of destruction have left their mark, with land cleared by loggers or for use by cattle. Travel in this...