Entertainment

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 02:32 UTC

  Malvinas/Olympic ad Argentine hockey player left out of Games warm-up in Malaysia

  

  The Argentine hockey player filmed training on the Falkland Islands in a controversial video that caused a furor in Britain last week has been dropped from Argentina’s final Olympic Games warm-up event.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2012 - 17:46 UTC

  Argentine Olympic Committee releases watered down statement on Malvinas spot

  

  The Argentine Olympic Committee has responded for the first time to an advertisement on state-run TV that links a dispute with Britain about the Falklands/Malvinas Islands to the London Games.

• Monday, May 7th 2012 - 07:21 UTC

  Malvinas spot could ruin Argentine Olympic team spirit, warns athletes’ delegate

  

  The controversial Malvinas/Olympics advert promoted by the Argentine government ahead of the London Games not only has had negative reactions worldwide but has also triggered deep concern among members of the Argentine Olympic team.

• Monday, May 7th 2012 - 03:31 UTC

  Controversial Malvinas/Olympics advert was aired Sunday during soccer matches

  

  Argentine state-run television aired the controversial advert on Sunday linking the London Olympics to a dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, opening itself to further criticism from the International Olympic Committee.

• Saturday, May 5th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  FIFA concerned with the pace of preparations for the 2014 Brazil World Cup

  

  FIFA president Sepp Blatter has expressed concern about the slow pace of preparations for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and said he wanted the delays to be made up as soon as possible.

• Saturday, May 5th 2012 - 01:38 UTC

  IOC criticizes Argentina for involving the Games with politics and Falklands’ dispute

  

  The International Olympic Committee, IOC, criticized on Friday an Argentine television spot that links the London Games to Argentina's sovereignty dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, calling it a blatant attempt to use the games for political purposes.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 16:52 UTC

  Falklands’ spot: UK regrets Argentina’s attempts to exploit and politicise Olympic Games

  

  The British Foreign Office criticized a controversial spot showing an Argentine athlete training for the London Olympic Games in Port Stanley, in the Falklands as an attempt to exploit and politicise the Games.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  Olympic Games joins Falklands’ dispute: “To compete in English soil, we train in Argentine soil”

  

  As was somehow anticipated by Ambassador in UK Alicia Castro’s attitude, Argentina is determined to take advantage of the London Olympic Games global exposure to press for its claims over the Falklands Islands, as part of a plan allegedly called “Sowing for the Malvinas claim”.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 03:06 UTC

  “The Scream” sets new record as most expensive work of art at 120 million dollars

  

  Norway’s Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream,” one of the world's most recognizable works of art, sold for 120 million dollars at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 03:50 UTC

  Former Beatle Paul breaks all records in Uruguay including with the taxman

  

  Former Beatle Paul McCartney paid almost 2.3 million dollars in national and municipal taxes during his only performance in Uruguay last April 15, which was considered by far the most spectacular concert in recent times in the country.