William Troop

You don’t have to be all that fit to enjoy the TV soap opera that millions of people are watching right now in Colombia. Although, it is about sports. Sort of. “La Seleccion” is a TV series about some star Colombian soccer players.

The government of Nicaragua is fast-tracking a bill that would authorize a company from China to build a new canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The dream of a Nicaraguan canal dates back more than a century.

For some diehard soccer fans, the news that David Beckham is retiring is not a huge deal. But for those who don’t follow soccer, Beckham may have been the one and only name they knew about the sport.

The drug war is on the agenda for President Obama’s visit to Mexico this week, but Obama and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto both have an interest in discussing trade as well.

Fans of the San Lorenzo professional soccer team in Buenos Aires are ecstatic about the new pope. The former Cardinal Bergoglio is a longtime fan of San Lorenzo. Anchor Marco Werman gets the details from The World’s William Troop.