Stories for July 19th 2011

Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:48 UTC
British Airways: ‘World’s favourite airline’ grows in South America

Over sixty five years ago, British South American Airways (BSAA) began flying to South America. The flights, which began in March 1946, were via Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal, Rio de Janiero and Montevideo, before landing in Buenos Aires, 35 hours later. The aircraft: an Avro Lancastrian. How times have changed.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:38 UTC
Falklands’ third appraisal oil well results should be known by end of August

Falklands’ Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas explorer, pressed ahead with its hunt for oil in the North Falklands with the drilling of its third appraisal well on the Sea Lion Discovery feature last week.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:12 UTC
Paraguay wants Argentina to pay better prices for power from shared dam

The presidency of the Paraguayan delegation at the Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur called on Argentina to improve the ‘reduced’ price it currently pays for surplus power from the shared hydroelectric dam of Yacyretá.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:06 UTC
Parliament to question PM Cameron on links with the Murdoch empire

British PM David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and will fly home on Tuesday to defend himself from a scandal that has battered Rupert Murdoch's media empire, forced British police chiefs to resign and raised doubts about the prime minister's judgment.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:01 UTC
Jewish community complains lack of progress in AMIA bombing investigation

Seventeen years after 85 people died and hundreds were injured in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:56 UTC
Organized crime and authoritarian rulers, main threat for journalists in the Americas

Organized crime and authoritarian governments have become the main enemies for freedom of expression in the Americas said Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter American Press Association.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:49 UTC
First aircraft lands in Bariloche over a month after the Puyehue volcano eruption

Over a month after the eruption of the Caulle-Puyehue volcano in Chile, a first flight landed in the airport of Argentina’s ski resort Bariloche. The chartered flight arrived from Sao Paulo with 120 Brazilian tourists.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 02:13 UTC
Coin recalls the centenary of the legendary “race to the South Pole”

The centenary of the legendary ‘Race to the South Pole’ between Britain’s Robert Falcon Scott and Norway’s Ronald Amundsen is marked by a new SGSSI coin just released by Pobjoy Mint, announced the June edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 02:06 UTC
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge thank Falklands for wedding gifts

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have thanked the Falkland Islands Government and the people of the Falkland Islands for their recent wedding gifts.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 01:26 UTC
Chilean rescued miners file 16 million dollars compensation lawsuit

Thirty-one of the 33 Chilean miners rescued last year from the bottom of the San José mine filed a lawsuit late last week against the government agency that was supposed to have monitored the safety of the mine. The 33 miners were miraculously rescues after surviving nearly two months underground.