Drill nears escape shaft breakthrough for Chile’s 33 miners as a world awaits their rescue

A way out, at last, for Chile’s 33 trapped miners

5.9-magnitude earthquake shakes Costa Rica; no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage

5.9-magnitude earthquake shakes Costa Rica

Excitement and anxiety in Chile as escape shaft drill nears 33 trapped miners

Escape shaft nearly reaches Chile’s trapped miners

Chile anticipates ‘great day’ as escape shaft nears 33 miners trapped underground since August

Chile sees ‘great day’ with escape shaft near done

Haitian students to arrive in Senegal to take up offer of new home for quake survivors

Haitian quake survivors to arrive in Senegal

Hurricane Otto forms in the Atlantic; on track that will take it farther out to sea

Hurricane Otto forms in the Atlantic

MIAMI — Otto has reached hurricane strength over the Atlantic on a path that’s expected to take it farther out to sea.

Otto expected to become hurricane after drenching Caribbean islands as it whirls toward Azores

Otto gaining strength, could become a hurricane

Chile list suggests which miners should be rescued first and last based on health, character

Chile list says which miners should go first, last

Tropical Storm Otto drenches Caribbean islands as it whirls toward Azores

Otto becomes tropical storm on mid-Atlantic track

Report: Over 1 million Haitian quake victims in 1,300 camps where sexual violence is rampant

Report: 1 million Haitians in 1,300 squalid camps

Bill Clinton says US aid coming to Haiti, criticizes donor delays in meeting pledges

Bill Clinton lobbies for earthquake aid to Haiti

Subtropical Storm Otto forms in Atlantic; heavy rain possible in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Subtropical Storm Otto forms in Atlantic

MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Otto has formed east of the Turks and Caicos Islands and is heading farther into the Atlantic.

Engineers debate risks involved in pulling Chile’s miners up through “live rock” or steel pipe

Chile mine engineers weigh risks of encasing shaft

Subtropical depression forms in the Atlantic; getting better organized

Subtropical depression forms in the Atlantic

Jamaica PM says it will take $125 million to repair damage from Tropical Storm Nicole

Jamaica PM: $125 million to fix storm damage

High surf from thunderstorm grounds tanker in St. Kitts harbor; no reports of spilled fuel

Storm grounds tanker in St. Kitts, no spill

Storms unleash heavy rains, wind in Caribbean; flash floods possible

Heavy rains, winds, across Caribbean

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands — Schools and government offices in the British Virgin Islands are closed due to heavy rains from a cluster of thunderstorms that threaten to form a tropical depression.

Chile’s president: ‘We are very close to rescuing’ the 33 trapped miners

Chile president sees miners rescued before Oct. 15

5.1-magnitude quake rattles eastern Cuba; no reports of injuries or damage

Moderate 5.1-magnitude quake shakes eastern Cuba

Blast at plaza in Mexico injures 15, authorities blame drug cartels trying to create ‘chaos’

Explosion at plaza injures 15 in northern Mexico

IOM: Engineer supervising shelter-building killed outside Haiti relocation camp

IOM: Engineer killed outside Haiti relocation camp

Peru police say plane carrying British tourists crashes near famed Nazca Lines, 6 dead

Peru: Tourist plane crashes near famed Nazca Lines

Another hill collapses in southern Mexico, as death toll from landslides climbs to 32

Death toll in southern Mexico mudslides up to 32

Deaths in Jamaica at 5 as rains dumped by Tropical Storm Nicole trigger mudslides, floods

Death toll rises to 5 in Jamaican floods, slides

Another hill collapses in southern Mexico, raising death toll from landslides to 23

Death toll in Mexico mudslides up to 23; 9 missing

Mexico resumes search for 11 missing in collapsed hillside as slide kills 16 in another town

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 16 people

Mexico resumes search for 11 missing in collapsed hillside as slide kills 12 in another town

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 12 people

2 confirmed dead, 12 more missing after Tropical Storm Nicole causes floods, slides in Jamaica

2 known dead, 12 missing after storm soaks Jamaica

Tropical Storm Nicole causes deadly floods, slides in Jamaica; breaks up in Florida straits

‘Nicole’ sparks deadly floods, slides in Jamaica

Rescue efforts resume for 11 missing after hillside collapses in southern Mexican town

Search resumes for 11 missing in Mexico mudslide

US names special coordinator for Washington’s reconstruction effort for Haiti earthquake

US names special coordinator for Haiti response

Tropical Storm Nicole forms, may skirt Florida and head for Bahamas

Tropical Storm Nicole forms, may skirt Florida

Tropical Storm Nicole forms over Cuba; all warnings, watches for Florida canceled

Tropical Storm Nicole forms over Cuba

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Nicole has formed over Cuba after soaking the country with downpours as a tropical depression.

Tropical depression brings downpours to eastern Cuba, heads toward Florida Keys

Tropical depression soaks Cuba, heads for Florida

Tropical depression blows up in Caribbean, heads for Florida after crossing Cuba

Tropical depression heads to Fla. after Cuba hit

Tropical depression blows up in Caribbean, heads for Cuba and on to southeastern Florida

Tropical depression aims at Cuba, then Florida

Huge mudslide smashes into Mexican mountain town, but only 11 missing after disaster

Mexico: Mudslide proves less deadly than feared

Mexican authorities backtrack on landslide, say no deaths are confirmed and only 11 missing

Mexico: No confirmed landslide deaths, 11 missing

Chile mine drilling advances rapidly, cheering families as officials hope for earlier rescue

Chile rescue speeds up, cheering miner families

Rain hampers rescue work after mudslide kills several, destroys homes in southern Mexico

Rain hampers rescue efforts in Mexican mudslide

AP IMPACT: US pledged $1.15B to rebuild Haiti; 6 months later, none of it has arrived

AP IMPACT: Haiti still waiting for pledged US aid

Tropical depression forms south of Cuba; warnings also in Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Florida

Tropical depression in Caribbean heads for Cuba

Drenched Mexican hillside collapses on sleeping residents; at least 7 dead, 100 missing

Drenched Mexico hillside collapses; at least 7 die

Disaster officials say at least 8 dead, 100 missing in southern Mexico landslides

Mexican authorities: 8 dead, 100 missing in slides

Colombians officials: recovering 30 bodies from mudslide will take a week

Colombian officials put mudslide death toll at 30

Tropical depression forms; tropical storm warnings in Cayman Islands, Cuba, Bahamas, Fla.

Tropical depression forms south of Cuba

MIAMI — Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Cayman Islands and parts of Cuba, the Bahamas and the southern Florida coast as a new tropical depression approaches.

Mexican governor says hundreds feared dead as hillside collapses on homes.

Mexican governor: hundreds feared dead in slide

Cuban state TV airs purported confession by Salvadoran charged in 1990s Havana bomb attacks

Cuba TV airs hotel bombing suspect confessing

Mudslide sweeps over Colombians changing buses on mountain road, at least 20 people missing

At least 20 missing in Colombian mountain mudslide

Small-town mayor, assistant stoned to death in drug-plagued western Mexico state

Small-town mayor stoned to death in western Mexico