Entertainment

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 19:03 UTC

  Brazilian singer Gal Costa dies aged 77

  

  Brazilian iconic singer Gal Costa passed away Wednesday morning in Sao Paulo at the age of 77, it was reported. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:34 UTC

  Lawmaker criticized that Argentine national team travels to Qatar with Uruguayan yerba mate

  

  Argentine opposition Congressman Luis Mario Pastori of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a party forming the Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) coalition, Tuesday noted on social media that the Argentine national football team taking part in the upcoming World Cup finals in Qatar had not prioritized home-made products.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  World record lottery jackpot, one billion US dollars. The US$ 2 ticket was sold in California

  

  A single ticket-holder from California has won the largest lottery jackpot in world history, a US$ 2.04 billion prize (with an estimated cash value of US$ 997.6 million), officials announced of Tuesday. The winning ticket was the only one to match all five white balls as well as the Powerball.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:17 UTC

  Royal Yacht Britannia to be replaced by an ocean surveillance ship

  

  A £250m scheme to create a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia has been scrapped – with the Defense Secretary telling MPs the procurement of a new Royal Navy vessel is being prioritized instead.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Female team, with descendants of whaler families, reopening the South Georgia Museum at Grytviken

  

  An all-female team from Dundee in Scotland has travelled some 8,000 miles to South Georgia to help reopen the island's South Georgia Museum at Grytviken on time for the coming summer and cruise season.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  First 50p coins with King Charles III portrait will be circulating next December

  

  Britain's 50p coin has started to be struck at The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, and will enter tills, wallets and purses in December, reports BBC. Sculptor Martin Jennings, who created the portrait of the King, said that witnessing the coin being produced was a “quite remarkable experience”.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Maradona world's biggest mural unveiled in Buenos Aires

  

  On the day football legend, Diego Maradona was to have turned 62, thousands gathered Sunday in the Constitución neighborhood in Buenos Aires to see a mural dedicated to him unveiled.

• Saturday, October 29th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis dies aged 87

  

  Rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis, of Great Balls of Fire fame, has died of natural causes, it was reported Friday.

• Friday, October 28th 2022 - 20:21 UTC

  Football World Cup trophy lands in Uruguay

  

  The World Cup trophy that will be at stake later this year in Qatar landed Friday at Carrasco airport, where it was welcomed by Brazil's 2002 world champion Lucio, Vice President Beatriz Argimón, and Montevideo Mayor Carolina Cosse, together with Uruguayan Football Association authorities.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Several Falklands' fauna pictures at the Comedy Wildlife Photography awards

  

  The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards just released a gallery of their 2022 Finalists, and the list is as wholesome and heartwarming as can be for a conservationist competition. The 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists provide a brief respite from the horrors of a politically unstable post-plague world, but they also carry an important message of conservation--.