This weekend, a volcano southwest of Guatemala City erupted for the second time in five months, sending a deadly plume of super-heated rock and gas into the rural communities below. 69 people are currently reported dead, and more are missing. Read More >>

This week, some people in Britain and Canada were shocked to learn that their money contains trace amounts of animal fat. The new banknotes use animal byproducts that are found in everything from credit cards and crayons to glue and soap. But We have confirmed that Britain and Canada aren’t the only ones. Read More >>

The John McAfee circus came to a head last night when McAfee was finally arrested in Guatemala. Except uh, now he's blogging from a computer the Guatemalan police gave him in his jail cell. Read More >>

Next in line at the great journalistic jungle buffet is Vice, which sent down two dudes to chat with paranoid/fugitive John McAfee and reprint his various insane thoughts. And more: they forgot to clear GPS data in an uploaded photo. Read More >>

Scientists have bred mosquitoes in Guatemala that will cause mosquito genocide when they mate with normal mosquitoes. The idea is to thwart disease spread by the insects, in this case dengue fever. Read More >>