Peru's inflation index decreased 0,22% in November, returning to the central bank's target range (1-3%), according to the National Institute for Statistics and Information (INEI).

Trade between Peru and the so-called least developed countries (LDc's) rose at average rate of 35% in the last ten years. This number is higher than that recorded with other regions of the world, said Peruvian Production Minister, Gladys Trive�o. 

The industry sector in Peru is likely to record a 6 percent growth the next year, driven mainly by the recovery in exports of the country's garment sector, Peruvian Production Ministry (Produce) has reported. 

Peruvian photographer Mario Testino left his home country for Britain in the seventies, but, increasingly drawn to his roots, is now referencing the country in his latest work. He took High Life on an exclusive tour of Lima.

He's the world's most high-profile photographer, whose career exploded after his 1997 Vanity Fair shoot with Diana, Princess of Wales. He grew up in Peru and arrived in London in 1976 where he quickly fell in love with Britain. But recently Mario Testino has found himself drawn back to his homeland for its culture, food and pace of life. On the eve of his latest New York exhibition, he takes Michael Holden for a trip round Lima exclusively for High Life. 

Legendary photographer Mario Testino talks to High Life about the worldwide influence of Peruvian fashion and photography on today's designers.

By turning his attention on his home city, Testino is doing what he's best at - illuminating a subject to provoke our interest. Just as his models suggest a narrative, so too does this city - and by no means one that is sanitised or straightforward. Testino's Peru is as vivid and visceral as his pictures.

For the second year running, Peru has won the top honor as World's Leading Culinary Destination at the 2013 World Travel Awards held in Doha, Qatar, it has been reported. 

Latin American cuisine is gaining international attention, with Peru leading the charge.

In London alone, at least four Peruvian restaurants have opened in two years.

The Colca Canyon is one of the deepest canyons in the world, it is over twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the US and in places it is over four vertical kilometres from the river bed to the top and is home to one of the sources of the River Amazonas as well as the majestic Condor. It is a spectacular place to visit and is quite a popular tourist destination for those visiting Southern Peru.  

The number of Peruvians traveling overseas totaled two million 485,249 between January and October this year, 5.38% higher compared to the same period a year earlier, reported today the National Superintendency of Migration. 

I once spent a year in South America. Most of it in Peru. Once you've been to that country the rest of the continent almost becomes an irrelevancy.

It is one of the most magical and genuinely awe-inspiring countries on the planet. Or at least it was in 1989, before the era of global get-there-quick travel and know-it-all Trip Advisor online diffidence reduced everything to the humdrum. 

Whenever I take students to visit Lima Peru, one must-see place of visitation is Lima's Museo de La Inquisici�n. (Inquisition Museum). The museum sits in close proximity to Lima's congressional buildings and seems to be saying: "be careful not to repeat the horrors of the past." At the museum visitors see the horrors of the Inquisition, how the inquisitors convicted innocent people, and how in the name of religion humans were tortured and murdered. Visitors go through the museum often in silence and the museum's staff has told me that they hope to show the world how religious fanaticism become the vehicle of personal and cultural destruction. In many aspects the Museo de la Inquisici�n is not that different from Jerusalem's world famous Yad vaShem or Washington DC's Holocaust Museum.  

 Earlier this week, the website DefenseNews.com reported that the nation of Peru has just ordered a pair of C-27J "Spartan" tactical transport aircraft to be built for it by Alenia Aermacchi, a division of Italian defense giant Finmeccanica. Peru will be paying approximately $136 million for the planes.