Entertainment

• 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.

• Friday, April 20th 2012 - 21:51 UTC

  Barcelona vs Real Madrid: a derby with 1.5bn dollars on the field

  

  Saturday’s derby between Spain’s top teams Barcelona and Real Madrid is more than a soccer match, not only because it will most probably decide who is the next champ of La Liga but also because the field will see a display of 1.474 billion dollars in players.

• Friday, April 20th 2012 - 21:45 UTC

  Two English, two Spanish and one German in the billion dollars plus clubs league

  

  The piles of cash handed out by Europe’s top tournaments continue to drive team values higher for the best teams on the pitch, according to the latest report from Forbes.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 20:30 UTC

  Cruise sent to collect passengers from stranded M/V Plancius docked in South Georgia

  

  The Panama flagged cruise vessel M/V Ushuaia is expected to arrive early next week in South Georgia to pick up the stranded 114 passengers and crew of a similar small cruise M/V Plancius which after experiencing serious propulsion trouble took shelter at King Edward Point Research Station in Grytviken.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 17:20 UTC

  Brazil Senate won’t consider controversial World Cup bill unless Blatter shows up

  

  FIFA President Sepp Blatter is trying to schedule a trip to Brazil to speak at a public hearing about a controversial World Cup bill FIFA wants approved as soon as possible.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 05:42 UTC

  Montevideo ready for Paul McCartney’s On the Run show next Sunday

  

  Former Beatle Paul McCartney begins next Sunday in Uruguay his On the run tour of Latin America that ends next 8 May in Mexico City. Montevideo authorities have announced Sir Paul, in his first visit to Uruguay, will be declared ‘illustrious citizen’.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 05:33 UTC

  FIFA ranks Uruguay among the world’s three best football national teams

  

  Uruguay’s national football team makes history and for the first time climbs to third position in FIFA’s listing, behind Spain, which continues to lead and Germany that replaced Holland and is now in position four.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  Wild Viking being held in Puerto Williams

  

  Norwegian rogue yachtsman Jarle Andhøy, 34, along with four other crew members on the 54-foot yacht steel yacht Nilaya - who were arrested last week by the Chilean Navy - are being held at the Chilean Naval base in Puerto Williams, after apparently after giving a false name for the vessel when hailed by the Chilean Navy according to press reports from Chile and New Zealand over the weekend.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 02:25 UTC

  Brazilian Senate will only deal directly with FIFA president Blatter

  

  A panel of the Brazilian Senate on Tuesday canceled a planned meeting with FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who last month caused uproar with his outspoken criticism of the country's 2014 World Cup preparations.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:06 UTC

  Three players (and the tax man) share largest lottery jackpot in US history

  

  The largest lottery jackpot in US history, 656 million dollars, will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday.