Entertainment

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 08:24 UTC

  UK the second top market for Argentine wines

  

  Argentina's Grape and Wine Growing Institute, INV, reported that in November the sale overseas of fractioned wine climbed 21% over a year ago, reaching 200.336 hectoliters, representing 75,3 million dollars. The United States is the main client followed closely by the United Kingdom.

• Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Statue of Diego Maradona unveiled at Ezeiza airport

  

  A real-life statue of former Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was unveiled Wednesday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport.

• Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - 20:31 UTC

  Best Latin American Stars In The History Of NFL

  

  The National Basketball Association is one of the sports where you can find players from different nationalities that compete for the same goal. The NFL continuity makes an effort to improve player diversity, and over the last couple of years, the sport has made a huge leap forward making it a competition for every nationality, color, or race.

• Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 21:49 UTC

  Brazil: Pele hospitalized for further cancer treatment

  

  Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, has been admitted Wednesday into the Albert Einstein Clinic in São Paulo for further treatment of a colon tumor. He was said to be “stable.”

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Tennis player Peng Shuai mystery: WTA suspends all WTA tournaments in China and Hong Kong

  

  The president of the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, Steve Simon announced on Wednesday “the immediate suspension of all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong,” as a result of the situation with Chinese ex-player Peng Shuai who had been disappeared for weeks and later confirmed she was “fine” in what seemed an official tailored statement, following on global interest about what happened to the former number one player of the world.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 03:06 UTC

  Messi wins 7th Ballon d'Or of his career, thanks Argentina teammates

  

  Argentine football star Lionel Messi has won his seventh Ballon d'Or award Monday and offered it to his national squad teammates with whom he achieved his first major professional title at country level.

• Monday, November 29th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Former British Ambassador to BA to take over as Scotch Whisky Association CEO

  

  Former British Ambassador to Buenos Aires has been chosen to head the Scotch Whisky Association, something which was no surprise at all in the Argentine capital, where he proved to be quite a connoisseur on the subject.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands member of the Table Tennis Federation, despite Argentina's objection

  

  Argentina lost to the Falkland Islands at the International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF, where overwhelming support had the Islands registered as an independent member. This despite the strong allegations from the Argentine Table Tennis Federation president Fernando Joffre, at the ITTF annual assembly.

• Friday, November 26th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Conmebol names a star after Maradona on the first anniversary of his death

  

  South America's Football Confederation (Conmebol) Thursday announced a star had been named after Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona on the first anniversary of the former player's death.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 15:46 UTC

  Argentine art collector pays US$ 35 million for an emblematic feminist icon painting

  

  Argentine businessman and art collector Eduardo Constantini paid 35 million dollars for an iconic painting of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at Sotheby's in United States. The record-breaking sum for a Kahlo masterpiece is a self-portrait, “Diego and me”, was painted in 1949 and was dedicated “to Florence and Sam with love from Frida”.