Chile launches new base in Antarctica

President Pinera plants another Chilean flag in Antarctica, at site of planned air force base

• Fiennes sets off for South Pole crossing
• Life where you'd least expect it
• Antarctic crossing: Do or die

Chile mourns plane crash victims

Chile has declared two days of mourning as officials say some bodies from the 21 people on board an air force plane that crashed off an island in the Pacific may never be found.

• Body found after plane crash
• Passenger survives plane crash
• 7 killed in US plane crash

Looting, unrest as Chileans strike

The Chilean government says dozens of shops, supermarkets and gas station kiosks have been looted and buses damaged in a two-day strike in that country.

• Chile strike erupts in violence
• Chile police, students clash in protests
• Chile president rebuffs student protests

Chile president rebuffs student protests

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has rebuffed demands by students who have mounted mass protests for free university education, telling them "nothing is free in this life".

• Chile police, students clash in protests

Protests in Chile a year after quake

Reconstruction protests greeted Chile President Sebastian Pinera on the anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history.

• Trauma lingers a year after Chile quake
• Village swallowed by Tsunami
• Devastation deepens in Chile

Chile miner: Suicide not an option

Chile's 33 rescued miners never considered suicide in the dark days before they were found alive, says one of the miners.

• Chile miners wanted to evacuate
• Chile miners to wed - again
• SLIDESHOW: Chilean miners' ordeal

Author: Trapped people everywhere

After the rescue of 33 trapped miners, Chilean author Antonio Skármeta says the world should help other suffering people with as much empathy.

• TIMELINE: 69 days of darkness
• Families: Miners must never go back
• How did the miners survive?

TIMELINE: 69 days of darkness

Take a look at a timeline for the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in a mine in the Atacama Desert for 69 days.

Piñera: Chile rescue incomparable

The rescue operation to free 33 miners after 10 weeks trapped underground is "without comparison in the history of humanity", Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has said.

• Miners' rescue grips world audience
• Who are these heroic Chile miners?

Chile miners argue over who leaves last

The Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for 66 days, are squabbling about who should be last to leave.

• Chile miners reinforce rescue shaft
• Chile mine rescue closer
• Bore hole reaches trapped Chilean miners

Chile: 3rd rescue shaft under way

Drilling work has begun on a third tunnel designed to extricate 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean mine, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has reported.

• Drilling operation reaches miners
• Miners could be free by November
• Miners' rescue ahead of schedule

Trapped Chile miners anxious

Some of the miners who will be trapped for months in Chile are falling prey to anxiety, as angry relatives mounted the first legal action.

• Advice for Chile miners: Laugh
• Miners may be stuck until Christmas
• Miners: Save us from this hell

Quake hits as leader sworn in

Strong aftershocks and a tsunami alert have rocked Chile and rattled nerves as right wing billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president.

• Panic as Piñera sworn in
• Chile: New tsunami warning

Bachelet is proud of Chile

Chile's outgoing president says she's leaving office proud of what her government has accomplished and is convinced the country will rise from the tragedy of the earthquake.

• Threatened looters return goods
• Stars raise $57m for Chile
• Chile to swear in new leader

Chile searches, plans rebuild

Rescue crews have fanned out with sniffer dogs around Chile's earthquake-ravaged cities and villages searching for survivors inside the mountains of rubble.

• Struggle to find quake victims
• More troops for quake-hit Chile