The jury of the IV Tango Dance World Championship crowned a Colombian couple with the top award for the Stage Tango category, while Argentine dancers were honoured with the accolade for the Dancehall Tango style.
Guarani Indians threatened yesterday to take control of Bolivia's largest gas and oil fields, interrupting exports to the gas-hungry Brazil market.
China will invest around US$5 billion in energy projects in Venezuela by 2012 as part of a plan to boost Venezuela's oil output, the country's energy minister told state television yesterday.
María Esther de Capovilla, the oldest person on Earth according to Guinness World Records, has died of pneumonia at 116, her granddaughter said.
Brazilian biofuel company, Tecbio, has linked up with NASA and US aerospace firm Boeing to develop a biokerosene aviation fuel, Tecbio's President Expedito Parente told a seminar yesterday.
President Evo Morales reshuffled Monday Bolivia's embattled energy sector by naming new heads at the government owned oil company YPFB and at the oil and gas regulatory office with the purpose of consolidating the nationalization process.
Regional airlines in Spain are considering the viability of operating flights to and from Gibraltar reports the Gibraltar Chronicle. Apparently at least two regional airlines have made preliminary inquiries with outside authorities.
Uruguay experienced a trade deficit of 273 million US dollars during the first half of this year according to a release from the Central Bank. Imports soared 25.1% reaching 2.15 billion US dollars and exports 16.2% totalling 1.87 billion.
Local residents in Richmond United Kingdom, next to the Thames River joined Chilean nationals Tuesday to celebrate the 228th birth anniversary of Chile's national hero Bernardo O'Higgins.
Mercosur and associate member countries Finance ministers are scheduled to meet next Friday in Rio do Janeiro to address among other issues the possibility of issuing a common trade currency, which would eventually replace the US dollar.