Chile's conservatives snatched dozens of mayoralties on Sunday from the governing centre-left coalition, in a boost to former leader Sebastian Piñera, the front-runner to lead the conservative coalition in next year's presidential election.
Uruguay figures among the ten best national teams in the world according to the FIFA rating and has players in some of the top European teams, but back home things are quite different: a Sunday first league match was suspended at half time following shootings among hooligan gangs in one of the stadium's toilets, according to the first official reports.
Large banks are getting ready to relocate out of the UK early next year over fears around Brexit, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) has warned. Writing in The Observer its boss Anthony Browne also says smaller banks could move operations overseas by 2017.