MercoPress, en Español

Montevideo, May 13th 2025 - 09:22 UTC

Entertainment

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

    Falklands’ 17 girls’ team will play female international football in Punta Arenas

    Sophie Dalton, recently awarded the players nominated female athlete of the 2025 Junior Falkland Games

    On International Girls and Women in Sport Day, the focus is on the Girls Football Team coached by Troyd Bowles. They are about to embark on their biggest challenge yet with the first ever female international football tournament for the Falkland Islands in Punta Arenas.

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Falkland Islands Cricket team readies for weeklong tour of Costa Rica next March

    Members of the Falklands Cricket team displayed the Costa Rica tour kit and thanked the sponsors for contributing to promote cricket and the Falkland Islands

    Falkland Islands and Costa Rica are pleased to announce that a weeklong tour by the Falklands cricket team to Central America has been confirmed, from 8-15 March 2025 for a five match T20 series.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 12:47 UTC

    Barenboim admits he has Parkinson's Disease

    Barenboim has been a long-time promoter of dialogue between Israel and the Arab world

    Argentine-born conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, KBE, confirmed that he has Parkinson's Disease but nevertheless intends to “maintain as many musical engagements as possible.”

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:19 UTC

    Falklands celebrates Girls and Women in Sport International Day with huge display

    “Fearless and fierce celebrate Girls and Women Sport Day”

    A very active month for sports in the Falkland Islands particularly with the coming Girls and Women in Sport International Day scheduled on 05 February. With this in mind the Falklands National Sports Council, NSC, is coordinating a series of social media posts and events to highlight a selection of the many women in Falkland sport as well as offering some opportunities to have a go at some sports that women might not have considered previously.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 06:08 UTC

    Falklands, ESPN films a documentary on the local football culture

     The football match between Stanley and BFSAI, played for the filming despite the wind (Pic  Cpl Cann and Flt Lt Youngs)

    The US international basic cable sports channel, ESPN, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network was in the Falkland Islands with a crew to gather information on the local football culture. British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, and Falklands Football worked with the Walt Disney channel, ESPN

  • Thursday, January 9th 2025 - 20:20 UTC

    Argentine official wants U-20 Football Championship not played in Venezuela

    Bullrich's fears impliciglh admit Maduro's remaining in power after Jan 10

    Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich insisted Wednesday that the upcoming South American U-20 Football Championship scheduled to be played in Venezuela should be held somewhere else given the insecurity the Bolivarian regime of President Nicolás Maduro would represent to the Argentine delegation as well as others, considering last month's arrest of Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo who was charged with espionage for planning to kill Executive Vice President Delcy Roldríguez.

  • Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 09:43 UTC

    Five suspects arraigned in death of former One Direction's Liam Payne

    Payne is believed to have consumed a mixture of alcohol, pink cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, and the antidepressant sertraline prior to falling from the balcony

    Argentine prosecutors Monday arraigned 5 people in connection with the Oct.16 death of former One Direction's British singer Liam Payne in Buenos Aires, which was ruled not a suicide.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

    Falklands Men’s football team invited to the Orkney Games 2025

    It is summer time in the southern hemisphere and there is plenty of sports activity in the Falkland Islands. And not only has a cricket pitch been inaugurated as well as a club house, pavilion and bar, but also the first match against an MPC team was won by Stanley.

  • Monday, December 23rd 2024 - 10:36 UTC

    Planes, buses, trucks, and automobiles crash during the weekend

    Galeazzi's aircraft fell in a densely populated area

    At least ten people died and 17 others were injured when a private plane owned and flown by businessman Luiz Cláudio Galeazzi, 61, fell in a densely populated area on Sunday minutes after taking off from the Canela Aeroclube bound for Florianópolis, carrying ten passengers onboard, none of whom survived, Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite confirmed. At least 17 people were taken to the Gramado Hospital for smoke inhalation.

  • Thursday, December 19th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Falklands Treasury launches new series of coins depicting the King Penguin

    The coins will depict as its focal point one of the planet’s most unusual and unique species of bird, the King Penguin.

    GreySheet News which covers numismatic, and coins and paper money, information, in an article published by Michael Alexander reports that the Falkland Islands Treasury have announced the launch of a new annual series of gold and silver coins, which should be available beginning mid-January, and the coins will depict as its focal point one of the planet’s most unusual and unique species of bird, the King Penguin.