Footage showed many players falling face first to the ground as lightning struck the field in the 22nd minute of the match ...

A Peruvian amateur soccer player was killed and seven others were injured by a lightning strike during their match in a remote Andean city.

Teams in a local tournament in the Andean highlands east of Lima were leaving the pitch amid a weather delay when lightning ...

Though death is unavoidable in life, it is especially felt in society when a football player dies on the pitch under ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became ...

The verdict marks Peru's first high-profile conviction related to Brazil's continent-spanning Lava Jato corruption scandal. Toledo, a 78-year-old economist who holds a doctorate from Stanford ...