Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.
An Argentine judge ruled ex-president Cristina Kirchner, who began serving a six-year sentence for fraud under house arrest earlier this week, can continue greeting her supporters from her balcony.
Myanmar's deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving a raft of sentences set to last the rest of her life.