Lucuma is the fruit of the Pouteria lucuma tree native to South America. It has a hard, green outer shell and soft, yellow flesh with a dry texture and sweet flavor that’s often likened to a mix ...

Peru’s blueberry harvest is just beginning, and Ivan Jauregui, an agronomist, looks excited. At a farm he oversees about 100km north of Lima, the capital, workers are gently twisting the fruit ...

The remains of two children, perhaps a boy and a girl, rest beside each other at a mass burial site of Pampa la Cruz on the arid coast of northern Peru. They are among the 269 children who were ...

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Cities such as Arequipa and the sprawling capital, Lima, are the centre of artistic, cultural and culinary scenes that help Peru more than match its larger neighbours. Much like Brazil or Colombia ...

LIMA, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of the ...

Peru’s agriculture minister on Wednesday announced he would receive a Chinese delegation in September to finalise an agreement to expand the South American country’s fruit exports to the mainland.

LIMA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The fossilized remains of three mastodons from the Ice Age have been uncovered in the Peruvian Andes, raising questions as to how the behemoths arrived in the area.

Katya Batchelor, of Tonbridge, died of a cancer at the age of 49. Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru with an iron fist during the 1990s, died aged 86 on Wednesday. The ex-president, who was ...

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori - who was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption - has died of cancer aged 86. His death on Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was announced by his ...

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, whose complicated and painful legacy included stabilizing the country’s economy before being jailed for human rights violations and corruption ...