A look at what it's like living in the murder capital of the world, where roughly 24 people are killed everyday.

Chile's capital is an unsung city. Unjustly, says Paul Clements, who took a bicycle tour of its liveliest localities.

Books can take you places, but Steve Braunias wants to go for real to the exact place he's been reading about.

It's a little after 10pm, and I'm standing somewhere in the middle of the Andean cloud forest in the Choco region of northern Ecuador, with six others.

Stadiums, including the Aquatics Stadium and Future Arena are in the finishing stages, and the tottering remains of a favela, or slum, are being torn down.

There's an awful lot of wildlife in Brazil. Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.

Brazil's economy will contract more than previously forecast and is heading for the deepest recession since 1901.

Air New Zealand wants to move New Zealand into the top ten destinations for Argentine tourists.

Air New Zealand has signed a deal with an Argentine Government tourism body and both will now work together to promote tourism and trade.

Air NZ's first South American route has been years in the planning, reports Grant Bradley.

Pamela Wade finds Peru a country of wonders - from the natural to the man-made, the ancient to the everyday.

Sao Paulo's clubbing scene has something for everyone, writes Bella Ann Townes.

Mark Muckenfuss follows in the footsteps of Darwin by travelling to the most plentiful and lush marine species environment on Earth.

An Antarctic explorer who died while travelling with his wife in Machu Picchu has been remembered as a “remarkable and lovely man”.

It's like Noah's Ark on the world's greatest flood plain, writes Lorraine Brown.

Paul Rush feels the beating heart of an electric city of uninhibited charm.

Buenos Aires heaves with history, architecture, a thumping nightlife — and crazy passionate football fans, as Emma Land discovers.

This is the incredible moment a volcano erupts in Nicaragua - but the tourists standing right by it carry on filming even as a huge plume of smoke and ash fills the air.

Simon Willis tries to keep up with the horsemen of Los Llanos.

Air New Zealand will shut down Dreamliners completely every three months after tests by Boeing exposed problems.

During a trip up the Amazon, John Borthwick discovers people and wildlife largely untouched by civilisation.

LAN is optimistic about growth prospects at home and in Australia, despite sluggish economic conditions in both places.

A river safari to a remote Amazon animal sanctuary is magical, writes Lorraine Brown.

Chile's LAN Airlines has launched the Dreamliner on its services through Auckland as looming competition on flights to South America promises to bring down fares.

Steven Joyce has begun a 10-day visit to South America to try to drum up more interest in New Zealand as a study destination.

In the Argentinian capital, Winston Aldworth finds that meat and mating are on the brain.

Winston Aldworth checks in to a traditional hotel in the Argentine capital.