Entertainment

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez again considered the most influential Argentine

  

  After eight years in office, back in 2015, when ex-president Cristina Fernandez left office, she ranked ninth among the most influential Argentines, according to an ongoing national opinion poll from Giacobbe & Associates which was started in the nineties.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Rare 1937 Edward VIII sovereign coin sold for one million pounds

  

  A rare 1937 Edward VIII sovereign coin has been bought by a private collector for 1 million pounds (US$1.31 million), making it the most expensive British coin ever. The coin was one of six prepared by the Royal Mint when Edward became king in 1936 and was due to be mass produced for general circulation from Jan 1, 1937.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Tourists arrested for damaging Machu Picchu deported to Bolivia

  

  Five tourists arrested for damaging Peru's iconic Machu Picchu site will be deported to Bolivia on Wednesday, police said. A sixth was released from custody and ordered to remain in Machu Picchu pending trial after paying bail of US$910.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Mexican drug kingpin has its own beer, “El Chapo Mexican Lager”

  

  Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman may be serving a life sentence in prison, but the Mexican drug kingpin can now boast to having his own beer. El Chapo Mexican Lager was launched by Guzman's daughter Alejandrina, who runs a fashion and lifestyle company built around her father's brand.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro says documentary on the downfall of ex president Rousseff is rubbish

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday dismissed an Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary about the 2016 impeachment of leftist ex-leader Dilma Rousseff as “rubbish.”

• Wednesday, January 15th 2020 - 09:34 UTC

  Australian Open tennis qualifying disrupted by poor air quality as smoke blankets Melbourne

  

  Australian Open qualifying was disrupted for a second successive day due to poor air quality on Wednesday as smoke from bushfires continued to blanket Melbourne in an acrid haze. Organizers of the year's first Grand Slam said practice had been suspended at Melbourne Park until 11am and qualifiers would not get under way until 1pm.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Barcelona overtakes Real Madrid as top of the Deloitte Football Money League

  

  Barcelona have overtaken Real Madrid to top the Deloitte Football Money League for the first time and become the first club to break the 800 million Euros revenue barrier. The 23rd edition of the table shows an 11% rise in combined revenues, excluding transfer fees, for the top 20 clubs who between them enjoyed turnovers of a record 9.3 billion euros for the 2018-19 season.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Uruguay becoming a premium olive oil production and exporting country

  

  Olive oil producers in Uruguay enjoyed a record-setting harvest in 2019, according to a new report compiled by Uruguay’s Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries. In effect Uruguay produced 2,775 tons of extra virgin olive oil, according to the report, an increase of more than 360% over the rolling five-year average.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Iran's only female Olympic medalist abandons the country fed up with oppression and forced to follow orders

  

  Iran's only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used by its authorities as a propaganda tool. Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, implied in an Instagram post that she had moved to Europe. She wrote on an account she has used for some time, but it was not immediately possible to verify her location.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazilian judge orders Netflix to stop showing a movie depicting Jesus as gay

  

  A Brazilian judge ordered the streaming entertainment service Netflix to stop showing a controversial movie depicting Jesus as a gay man, according to court documents made public. In the ruling against Netflix, the state court judge said: “The right to freedom of expression... is not absolute.”