Entertainment

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Coronavirus upshot: German beer sales down

  

  Beer sales within Germany were down 5.5% in 2020 compared with the year before amid coronavirus pandemic restrictions the Federal Statistical Office has said. In total, German-based breweries and distributors sold 8.7 billion liters (2.3 billion gallons), according to official figures.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 03:38 UTC

  FIFA and WHO promoting fair access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments

  

  FIFA and the World Health Organization (WHO) will team up to promote the need for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics, and to encourage people to keep practicing life-saving, everyday public health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to protect health.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 07:03 UTC

  An enriching year for Falklands Biography Dictionary

  

  2020 was a year of substantial progress for the Dictionary of Falklands Biography website reports its administrators. The average number of hits recorded every day was 40, a yearly total exceeding 13,000.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 02:30 UTC

  The first Pitaluga to arrive in the Falklands: 1838

  

  The 1851 census noted Andreas Pintaluga as a gaucho. The son of Benito and Celestina he was born in Gibraltar in 1822.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:12 UTC

  Uruguayan skipper leads female rowers across the Atlantic in the Talisker Whisky Challenge

  

  All-female four-boat, The Bristol Gulls, including for the first time a Uruguayan skipper, raced into English Harbour, Antigua, completing this year’s Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge on the 27th January 2021.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 13:34 UTC

  Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart

  

  By Christopher Pittard, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth - A hundred years ago, Agatha Christie introduced British readers to a small man with an impeccably maintained mustache who, with the help of his “little grey cells””, was very good at solving crimes. That man, of course, was Hercule Poirot, who made his debut in Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1921.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Tom Hanks will host the “Celebrating America” special for Biden's inauguration

  

  Tom Hanks will host a 90-minute primetime special titled “Celebrating America” ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration this Wednesday.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  A popular Trump blimp has been donated to the Museum of London

  

  Reuters – A blimp depicting US President Donald Trump as a snarling, nappy-wearing orange baby has found a home in one of London's most popular museums.

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 01:33 UTC

  FA admits Cavani is not racist, and blames Manchester United for not offering the player social media training

  

  The English Football Association (FA) panel handed Edinson Cavani a three-match suspension despite acknowledging the Manchester United striker was not deliberately racist and had not known his language on social media was offensive.

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  CONMEBOL supports Cavani and criticizes England's FA for ignoring cultural characteristics

  

  The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) joined the growing criticism of England’s FA on Tuesday with a condemnation of the three-match ban given to Uruguayan Edinson Cavani for alleged racism.