The Latest Breaking News from Costa Rica

Costa Rican authorities believe 14-year-old Miller Gardner, son of Yankees star Brett Gardner, may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on a family holiday.

The unexplained death of Brett Gardner's 14-year-old son at a Costa Rican resort has reportedly led to a wave of hotel cancellations in the Manuel Antonio area.

The death of Brett Gardner's 14-year-old son in Costa Rica is under investigation, with officials reporting the preliminary cause of death as asphyxiation.

The World Happiness Index is out now – you did realise that yesterday was World Happiness Day? – and as ever it turns out that the Nordic countries are ahead of the herd. Finland is top, followed by Denmark, then Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands and Norway, with Costa Rica somehow smuggling…

The US fell to 24th place amid a rise in social isolation, while Costa Rica and Mexico break into the top 10.

World Happiness Report finds volunteering more frequent in most regions as Finland tops chart again and Costa Rica and Mexico enter top 10

Nations in the Americas dominated the list, with European destinations among the lowest-ranking

Vincent Losasso, founder of Guanacaste Wildlife Monitoring, is a biologist who works with camera traps throughout Costa Rica

Luis Montilla chose sleeping on a beach in Panama instead of being confined to a migrant shelter on his way home to Venezuela after failing to enter the United States.