Lima - The entire Peruvian cabinet handed in their resignations en masse to President Alan Garcia on Thursday over corruption allegations.

Jorge del Castillo, head of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, and all the cabinet members offered to resign at a time when Congress is making progress on a vote of no-confidence against them.

A rare union of opposition legislators is likely to allow the no- confidence vote to pass with 70 votes in favour, when only 61 are required, analysts said.

Lima - In the north of Peru a tour bus plunged 150 metres down into a ravine

Peru), September 4 : A scientific expedition, made up of Polish, North American, and Peruvian specialists, discovered tombs, apparently from the Pre-Incan culture, as well as archaeological remains in Peru’s Colca canyon.

According to a report in Living in Peru, the finding was when the team was covering a zone never explored due to its inaccessibility and lack of technology.

The trip allowed scientists to carry out works in the geological, hydrogeological, hydrographical, speleological (study of caves and caverns) ambits, as well as in the electromagnetic field, for which high technology equipment was used to compile exact data on each explored area.

Lima  - At least five university students were injured Thursday and 40 others were arrested in clashes with police in Peru, during protests over the rise in the cost of living in the Andean city of Cusco.

Students from the University of San Antonio Abad in Cusco, some 1,170 kilometres south-east of Lima, took over several public transport vehicles to block access to the university.

Lima - At least 10 people where injured in northern Peru when indigenous people protesting the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest clashed with police.

The violence Wednesday came during the latest of 11 days of protests by indigenous groups, which have organized strikes and roadblocks against new laws facilitating the sale of land in their traditional settlement areas in the Amazon jungle.

Indigenous communities can approve the sale of land with a simple majority vote. In the past, a two-thirds majority was necessary.

Lima - At least 22 people died in a head-on collision between two busses about 80 kilometres north of the capital, local media reported Monday.

The accident, which happened late Sunday night, also injured 71 passengers when one of the busses reportedly strayed into the lane of oncoming traffic.

But the two firms, Flores and Soyuz, which owned the busses engaged in open dispute over the accident.