The Latest Breaking News from Costa Rica

Many of the ocean’s most charismatic animals spend their lives swimming, flying or gliding thousands of miles, from the coasts to the high seas. Arctic terns, humpback whales and sea turtles are examples. Scientists have spent many years documenting and studying these magnificent journeys.

Surging interest rates and depreciating currencies may force some to cancel their travel plans.

German millionaire Rainer Schaller is believed to have been travelling from Mexico to Limon with his partner and two kids when their private jet flight disappeared off the coast of Costa Rica.

San José (AFP) - A man in Costa Rica who killed his pet cat Ochi by hurling it out a 6th-floor window received a two-year suspended jail term on Monday. 

German millionaire Rainer Schaller, 53, was understood to be on a flight from Mexico to Limon with his girlfriend, Christiane Schikorsky, and their children Aaron and Finja, last night when the plane disappeared off the coast of Costa Rica.

Authorities in Costa Rica have found two bodies in the search for six people, apparently including the German businessman behind Gold’s Gym, who went missing when their small plane disappeared from radar just off the country’s Caribbean coast

Six people, including the German businessman behind Gold's Gym, are feared dead after a small plane crashed into the Caribbean off the Costa Rican coast

German millionaire Rainer Schaller, 53, was understood to be on a flight from Mexico to Limo with his girlfriend and two children when the plane disappeared off the coast of Costa Rica

Authorities survey wreckage after aircraft carrying German gym entrepreneur and five others went missing