Argentine customs found 30kg of cocaine hidden in a way they had never seen before, absorbed in of rice headed for Europe via Africa. It was detected by dogs.

England 35 Fiji 11: The trains weren’t running, the bars were overflowing, the stewards were next to useless and yet, at around 7pm yesterday evening, something rather strange happened in south-west London.

Argentina’s tax agency charged HSBC bank with helping more than 4,000 Argentines evade taxes by placing their money in secret Swiss accounts.

Top Gear’s number plate row looks set to rumble on after a top Argentine diplomat accused Jeremy Clarkson of “fabricating” his version of events.

Talks aimed at averting Argentina’s second default in 13 years has ended with bitter recriminations as the South American country said it could not accept a deal with US hedge fund creditors it dismisses as “vultures”.

Argentina’s government is to make another effort to reach a deal with US. creditors before a looming deadline that risks sending the country into its second default in 13 years.

Lucas Bazan Pontoni rifled through his pockets for the 45-cent lunch fee as he stood in line at a downtown soup kitchen. When he came up short, an acquaintance sprang for the government-subsidised meal.

Thousands of Argentine football fans gathered on the golden sands of Copacabana beach gasped and then fell into silence when Germany scored a stunning extra-time goal to claim the World Cup title.

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President Cristina Fernandez spoke publicly for the first time in more than 40 days yesterday, ending a long silence that had Argentines speculating about her health following head surgery.

Argentina’s second largest city has been rocked by waves of looting and robberies after police went on strike for higher pay .

Doctors have begun operating on Argentina president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s skull to siphon out blood that is pressuring her brain two months after she suffered an unexplained head injury.

POPE Francis surprised crowds of Catholic faithful who waited through the night for his inaugural Mass with a telephone call from the Vatican to the cathedral in Buenos Aires where he used to be archbishop.

The first South American, the first non-European in more than a millennium and the first Jesuit, a new era in the Catholic Church was ushered in as Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was last night elected Pope Francis I.

The last of the 1,650 voters in the Falkland Islands were casting their ballots today in a referendum aimed at showing Argentina and the rest of the outside world that they are determined to remain a British overseas territory.

Thousands of people flooded the streets of Argentina's capital in one of the country's biggest anti-government protests in more than a decade.

Recovery teams removed the last charred bodies from the wreckage of a plane which went down in mountainous central Cuba, as officials vowed today to get to the bottom of what caused the crash and said they have the capacity to do it alone.

Thousands of shocked Argentines gathered early today to pay tribute to former president Nestor Kirchner, who died suddenly of a heart attack.

FORMER Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a heart attack yesterday.

More than 120 passengers and crew had to be rescued today from a cruise ship that hit rocks off Antarctica.

England legend George Cohen has described the withdrawal of several senior players ahead of tonight’s friendly with Germany as “too much of a coincidence”.

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters today that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers lift road blockades that have caused food shortages across Argentina.

Prosecutors have accused five Argentines with falsely implicating a group of Iranians in the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre, Iran’s state news agency said.

Argentina’s first lady closed her presidential campaign by praising her husband’s achievements as the country’s leader.

The first Roman Catholic priest to be charged for killings and kidnappings under Argentina’s former dictatorship has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

TWENTY-FIVE years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez rallied thousands of leftist sympathisers after a South American trade summit at Cordoba, in Argentina, railing against the US-backed free market policies they blame for many of Latin America’s woes.

THERE were actually two World Cups taking place over the past four weeks: the one in Germany and the one Germany were in.

AND then there were 16… After all the joy, pain, controversy and cracking goals of a hugely entertaining sequence of group games, the World Cup today goes into knock-out mode, as Germany and Sweden in Munich, and Argentina and Mexico in Leipzig, play for all or nothing in the opening clashes of the second round.

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The Brazil beach gig was far bigger – but Argentines filled a soccer stadium and clashed with police on the streets outside as the Rolling Stones rocked Buenos Aires with their A Bigger Bang tour.

Diego Maradona headed a ball with fellow soccer legend Pele as his top guest, hobnobbed with movie stars and entertainers and made a splashy debut as a TV talk show host.

BRAZIL and Argentina may have stumbled along the way but they eventually lived up to their star billing by making it through to this evening’s Confederations Cup final.

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More than 100,000 people marched through Argentina's capital Buenos Aires in a protest over crime, shouting “Justice! Justice!” in one of the country's largest demonstrations in years.

A judge asked Spain’s government to seek the extradition from Argentina of 25 former military officers and a civilian indicted for crimes committed during that country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

Former President Carlos Menem has quit Argentina’s presidential race, clearing the way for Nestor Kirchner to become the country’s next president.

FROM the icy reaches of Patagonia to tropical jungles in the north, Argentines began voting yesterday for a new president to rescue Latin America’s number three economy from a crisis that plunged millions of middleclass Argentines into poverty.

Heavy winds and high seas in the South Atlantic today forced explorers to abandon their search for an Argentine warship sunk by a British nuclear submarine during the 1982 Falkland Islands war.

Paul Scholes has admitted he is worried about his lack of action going into the new season.