Daily Headlines: June 15, 2007

* Gisele Bundchen (53), Ronaldinho (31), Jessica Alba (78), and George Lopez (73) were named to Forbes’ “The Celebrity 100” list.

* Thirteen players from Haiti’s under-17 men’s soccer team who were reported as missing during a layover in new York on Wednesday were all found by Thursday afternoon.

* Ecuador’s legislature is debating over whether or not to create a new province.

* Brazil’s GDP grew by over four percent in the first quarter of 2007.

* Popular Guatemalan fast food chain Pollo Campero opened it’s first establishment in China four months after opening its first Asian branch in Indonesia.

* Follow-up #1: Last month we linked to on an article by Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer on the risks reporters face in the Americas. A correspondent in Colombia from sister newspaper El Nuevo Herald reported that he's received death threats from paramilitaries.

* Follow-up #2: A federal judge refused to obligate U.S. authorities to help search for a mentally disabled man supposedly wrongly deported to Mexico.

Sources- Forbes, Gothamist, Soccer by Ives, People’s Daily Online, Global Voices Online, The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, Earthtimes.org, SignOnSanDiego.com

Image- E! Online (Comedian George Lopez)