Five people died and nine went missing - including several minors - in the overflowing of a river and reservoir in the town of Periban in the southwestern Mexican state of Michoacan as the result of powerful downpours, the state government said.

Libraries are motors for social change, but they need professional staff with increasing awareness of the changing environment we live in, the president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions told EFE on Monday.

Representatives from some 450 Latin American food and drink producers were in the Chilean capital on Monday for the opening of the 10th LAC Flavors trade fair, which gives them the chance to contact some 120 buyers from 35 countries

Uruguay's Nacional is hosting Argentina's San Lorenzo this week at Gran Parque Central in Montevideo in the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 and faces a tough challenge, needing to score at least two goals and not give up any.

Chilean engineer Daniel Hurtado, the creator of a mathematical model to study respiratory diseases, was selected as one the world's 10 most promising scientists by the World Economic Forum.