Entertainment

• Tuesday, November 27th 2012 - 22:25 UTC

  FIFA warns Brazil on Sao Paulo crime and insufficient infrastructure for 2014 Cup

  

  FIFA general secretary, Jerome Valcke has warned Brazil of the increasing crime rate in cities like Sao Paulo and also stressed on the need of more infrastructure ahead of the 2014 football World Cup.

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 19:54 UTC

  “Fuleco” will rule over the 2014 Brazil World Cup

  

  FIFA has named the mascot for the 2014 Brazil World Cup “Fuleco,” a word which organisers say transmits a message of environmental awareness, Football plus ecology.

• Sunday, November 18th 2012 - 02:55 UTC

  'New Falklands horse racing book attracts record sales'

  

  Falklands Governor Mr. Nigel Haywood CVO receiving a copy of the newly published book 'The Christmas Sports' from the author, during a reception hosted by the Governor and his wife at Government House to celebrate the official launch of the book which was researched and written by Patrick Watts MBE - the official race commentator for the past 40 years.

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 06:22 UTC

  BBC celebrates 90 years of broadcasting with a “snapshot of the airwaves”

  

  A composition by Blur front-man Damon Albarn has been played to radio listeners around the world to mark 90 years of BBC broadcasting. 2LO Calling, a “snapshot of the airwaves”, featured iconic sounds from radio over the past 90 years.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:43 UTC

  BAS contractors’ team shoot horror movie ‘South of Sanity” in Antarctica

  

  A fictional feature film has been shot in Antarctica for the first time. Scottish climbing instructor and documentary-maker Kirk Watson filmed South of Sanity while working for British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

• Saturday, October 20th 2012 - 04:40 UTC

  Middle class Brazil looks itself in a soap opera and breaks audience records

  

  A soap opera which depicts the recent upsurge of Brazil into a consumer society has trapped the country breaking audience records and even forcing President Dilma Rousseff to modify her agenda.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 18:54 UTC

  “Angry Indec” video game to make Argentine more furious about prices

  

  An Argentine video game allows players to compare the prices used by the National Statistics and Census Institute, Indec, to measure inflation with those consumers say they pay, a pastime that has caused angry reactions among players when they see the gap.

• Friday, October 5th 2012 - 06:06 UTC

  Brazil mocks Argentina after “super-match” was cancelled because of power failure

  

  Chaco Governor Jorge Capitanich publicly regretted and apologized on Thursday for the major embarrassment caused by the suspension of an Argentina-Brazil friendly match scheduled for Wednesday night when the stadium floodlights failed.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Miss Bumbum contest will choose the most anatomical perfect buttock of Brazil

  

  They came from all over Brazil, from the tropical, jungle north, from the flourishing manufacturing bustling megapolis, from the agriculture strong south and from every possible beach: they all converged to participate in the Miss Bumbum pageant, which will choose the best bottom of the country.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 09:06 UTC

  Film to re-edit Shackleton’s odyssey and project to recover “Endurance”

  

  Bob Chartoff and Lynn Hendee of Chartoff Productions announce plans for “Ice”, an epic action-adventure feature film based on the true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition. Shackleton’s remarkable rescue of his 27 men when their ship, the Endurance, went down in the pack ice off the Antarctic coast is internationally regarded as the greatest adventure in history.