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At least 382 people died in the fire in central Honduras and there are new questions about exactly what happened that night in the overcrowded prison... Outrage over the fire increased after the president of the country's supreme court admitted that only 40% of the inmates in the prison had been convicted. The majority were awaiting trial or waiting for charges to be filed against them.

A forensic official in Honduras says a fire that swept through a prison has killed at least 272 inmates.

Fourteen people were shot and killed at a soccer field in northern Honduras, a police spokesman said Saturday.

Honduras' military says one of its helicopter has crashed during an exhibition for children and the pilot has died.

Jean Beausejour scored the only goal and Chile beat Honduras 1-0 for its first World Cup victory in exactly 48 years.

The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha is growing, with 123 reported killed in Guatemala, 14 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.

As a new president takes office, toppled leader Manuel Zelaya will leave Honduras on Wednesday for exile after pressure by the United States and Latin American countries failed to reverse a coup that ousted him last June.

Voters in Honduras have elected a new president, but it remained in question Monday whether the international community would recognize conservative candidate Porfirio Lobo Sosa.

Hondurans are going to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, hoping to unlock a political paralysis five months after a coup that ousted the last one.

The country's de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti, forms a new government without the ousted president.