The only predictable thing about Emelec’s late winner against Olimpia in the Copa Libertadores last week was that it was a Quinonez who scored it.

An Aerosmith concert in Paraguay was postponed after singer Steven Tyler fell in his hotel bathroom, hitting his face and breaking two teeth.

Spain is claiming an end to four decades of bombings and shootings after the Basque separatist group ETA announced it would lay down its arms and try to negotiate its demand for a separate nation.

FIFA presidential challenger Mohamed Bin Hammam claims he is "well placed" in the contest against Sepp Blatter and has denied he is attempting to buy votes by increasing financial help for national associations.

Two people died in a fire that destroyed a supermarket on the outskirts of Asuncion in Paraguay.

PARAGUAY stunned visitors Brazil in Asuncion in their South American World Cup qualifier last night.

Chelsea defender Alex has been withdrawn from the Brazil squad for the next month’s World Cup qualifiers against Paraguay and Argentina with an undisclosed injury.

Brazil have will face Canada and Venezuela in two international friendlies ahead of the crucial World Cup qualifiers against Paraguay and Argentina in June.

Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won a historic victory in Paraguay’s presidential election today, ending more than six decades of one-party rule with a mandate to help the nation’s poor and indigenous.

Alfredo Stroessner, the canny anti-communist general who ruled Paraguay with a blend of force, guile and patronage for 35 years before his ousting in 1989, died in exile today. He was 93.

Dublin has reportedly dropped five places in an annual survey of the world's most expensive cities.

A global survey has reportedly found that Dublin is continuing to get more expensive than other cities throughout the world.

DUBLIN is moving up the ranks of the most expensive cities in the world in which to live, according to a new report.

The Royal Mail mistakenly sent Christmas post bound for a south Atlantic British colony to Paraguay and the Caribbean, it emerged tonight.

Locked doors at a Buenos Aires nightclub – some padlocked, others tied shut with wire – blocked or slowed the escape of many concert fans who fought to escape a fire that killed 175 people and injured hundreds, survivors and officials said.

A fire swept through a crowded Buenos Aires nightclub during a rock concert, killing at least 174 people and injuring more than 410 as young concertgoers scrambled for the exits, officials said today.

At least 149 people were reported to have been killed and more than 300 injured after fire tore through a crowded Buenos Aires nightclub during a rock concert early today.

The co-owner of a Paraguayan supermarket and five others have been charged with manslaughter for a fire that killed 464 people, after a security guard testified he was ordered to lock the burning store’s doors to prevent looting, trapping shoppers inside.

A SHOPPING centre owner, his son and four guards were indicted for manslaughter after allegedly locking the crowded store in Paraguay to prevent theft during a blaze that left 346 people dead, court sources said yesterday.

Locked doors prevented or slowed the escape of supermarket shoppers in Asuncion, Paraguay, from a fast-spreading fire that killed well over 300 people and injured hundreds more, survivors said.

SURVIVORS of an inferno in a crowded supermarket said locked doors slowed their escape from the fire that killed at least 311 people in Paraguay's worst disaster in more than half a century.

Survivors of an inferno in a crowded supermarket said locked doors kept them from escaping the fast-spreading fire that killed at least 296 people in Paraguay’s worst disaster in more than half a century.

An exploding gas canister in a food department may have fuelled a fire that killed up to 340 people in a crowded supermarket in Paraguay’s worst disaster in more than half a century.

Dozens of people were killed when fire swept through a supermarket on the outskirts of Paraguay’s capital Asuncion today.

TOKYO has replaced Hong Kong as the world’s most expensive city, according to a lifestyle survey that also showed the gap between the world’s costliest and cheapest cities narrowing for a sixth straight year.

"DEAR old Dublin", living up to its costly reputation, is named in a new report as the third most expensive capital city in the EU.

ORGANISATIONS from Burundi and Sweden working to overcome ethnic hatred, a Paraguayan torture victim and an Australian scientist have been presented with Right Livelihood awards, known as the “Alternative Nobel” prizes.

A prison riot in Paraguay touched off a fire that burned out of control, killing at least 25 inmates in their cells and injuring about 200 others, authorities and local reports said today.