Place: South Atlantic ocean

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general

No man left behind in the story of James Caird

A new book tells the story of the 23-foot open lifeboat that completed the greatest feat of

world

City-sized iceberg drifting away from Antarctica

news

Falvey: Ian was an inspiration

news

Irish climber McKeever killed by lightning on Mount Kilimanjaro

world

Undersea quake hits South Sandwich Islands

business

Three-week chase ends in trawler capture

Former Argentine dictator dies

GENERAL Leopoldo F Galtieri, the former Argentinian dictator who ordered the 1982 invasion of the Falklands Islands and touched off a 10-week war, died yesterday of heart failure. He was 76.

Mon, 13 Jan, 2003

Former dictator Galtieri arrested in Argentina

GENERAL Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentina's de facto president during the 1976-83 dictatorship, has been arrested on the orders of a judge prosecuting human rights abuses of that era.

Sat, 13 Jul, 2002