Entertainment

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 20:52 UTC

  HMS Protector rescues cruise liner at risk of becoming trapped in Antarctica ice

  

  A Norwegian cruise liner at risk of becoming trapped in thick ice off the coast of Antarctica was guided to safety by the Royal Navy in a two-hour operation, an incident which occurred a week ago and has only emerged.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2013 - 19:40 UTC

  Brazil prepares to be a great World Cup host: sensual sexy words, in English pls

  

  Taxi drivers and bellboys aren't the only ones going back to school to learn a little English ahead of the 2014 World Cup to be hosted in various cities across Brazil.

• Friday, January 4th 2013 - 23:23 UTC

  Pure adrenaline: world’s most extreme 15-day competition takes off in Lima

  

  Competitors are putting the final touches to their motorcycles, quad bikes, cars and trucks ahead of the start of one of the world’s most extreme races. The Dakar Rally returns once again to South America, beginning in Lima, capital of Peru on Saturday January 5, before making its way to Santiago de Chile for a grand finale outside La Moneda on January 20.

• Friday, January 4th 2013 - 22:09 UTC

  Argentina implements strict rules and controls on the soccer industry

  

  Every soccer team from the Argentine First and Second Division will as of this week have to open a bank account where they will deposit the total sum of money generated from soccer player transfers. Financial rights will now solely belong to the entities involved.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  Uruguayan famous striker holds football training camp in the Falklands

  

  Footballers both young and old, in the Falkland Islands have had the opportunity and rare privilege this last week of being coached by one of the game’s legends.

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  Blatter warns Brazil about security in football fields and the coming World Cup

  

  The abandonment of last Wednesday's South American Cup final following shocking accusations police had pulled guns on players should serve as a warning for Brazil's World Cup organizers, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said this weekend.

• Friday, December 7th 2012 - 05:41 UTC

  Falklands cricket team on sports and PR tour visit Jamaica

  

  The Falkland Islands cricket team on a tour in Jamaica presented the local Courtney Walsh Foundation with a cheque of 1.500 dollars during a reception to welcome the players, reports The Gleaner from Kingston.

• Thursday, December 6th 2012 - 21:26 UTC

  Gibraltar will be competing in UEFA 2013 Euro Futsal and U17 and U19

  

  The Union of European Football Associations, UEFA, has included Gibraltar in the Futsal qualifiers for the Euro 2013 Cup to be played in France next month and in the U17 and U19 tournaments to be disputed beginning next autumn. This is considered a remarkable step for Gibraltar’s football on the Uefa/GFA ‘road map’

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 19:27 UTC

  Brazil confident for 2014 Cup but recalls the “national tragedy” of 1950 when defeated by Uruguay

  

  Brazil must not repeat the “national tragedy” of losing the 2014 World Cup as it did when it hosted the event in 1950, the country’s Minister of Sport Aldo Rebelo said. “We cannot repeat the national tragedy of 1950 when we lost to Uruguay” Rebelo told foreign journalists visiting Brazil as part of the build up to the finals. “It was like losing to your younger brother.

• Tuesday, December 4th 2012 - 05:41 UTC

  Brazil pays tribute to sexiest female bottom and crowns Miss Bumbum 2012

  Carine Felizardo, a curvy exuberant model from the northern state of Para was crowned Miss Bumbum 2012, a title rewarding Brazil’s sexiest female derriere. A jury of six women and five men picked the 25-year-old Felizardo among 15 finalists in the second annual edition of the contest, held in a Sao Paulo hotel.