Entertainment

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

  UK's The Grand Tour motoring program call Argentina “God's cesspit”

  

  The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond has reignited the trio’s feud with Argentina by calling the country ‘God’s cesspit’. Jeremy Clarkson famously managed to rile millions of Argentines back in 2014 when he drove through Patagonia for an episode of Top Gear with a license plate number which read H982 FKL, sparking complaints the vehicle was referring to the Falklands War.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:24 UTC

  Argentina's greatest basketball player with four NBA titles retires from the San Antonio Spurs

  

  Emmanuel ”Manu” Ginóbili would have been happy to retire quietly without his team retiring his jersey, but San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said the humble Argentine has no choice but to accept with the same passion he gave to the game.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:22 UTC

  Messi reacts to critics: “it's my family that suffers; my son asks me why are they killing me in Argentina”

  

  Leonel Messi revealed on Friday how he struggles to deal with criticism of his performances for Argentina's national team in an exclusive interview with a local radio station, saying that even his six-year-old son was questioning why he was judged so harshly in his home nation.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:14 UTC

  Shame on NASA: Lack of proper sized spacesuit impedes the first all female spacewalk

  

  What should have been a giant leap for womankind has turned into a stumble on the path to equality after U.S. space agency NASA canceled the first all-female spacewalk due to a lack of a spacesuit in the right size. Anne McClain and Christina Koch had been due to step into history books in a spacewalk Friday, during the final week of Women's History Month.

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Vessel linked to Falklands' history and turned into Bristol museum competing for the EU Museum of the Year

  

  A vessel closely linked to the Falkland Islands' history and which was later to become the heart of the SS Great Britain in Bristol museum, is one of three British museums nominated along with the British Motor Museum and the D-Day Story at Portsmouth which have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 European Museum of the Year, (EMYA) Award. Last year’s EMYA winner was London’s Design Museum.

• Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 08:22 UTC

  South Georgia issues commemorative coins on Queen Victoria's bicentenary anniversary

  

  The government and treasury of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands have issued on Thursday 21st March new crown coins and gold £4 pieces which are in celebration of the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria.

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay re-launch bid for 2030 World Cup

  

  Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay re-launched their bid to host the 2030 World Cup following a meeting of their presidents in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The four national presidents committed to creating a local organizing committee with a representative from each country to coordinate with CONMEBOL, South American football's governing body.

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Ocean sunfish washed up on an Australian beach becomes viral

  

  Pictures of a giant, odd-looking fish have gone viral after it washed up on a beach in South Australia. Identified as an ocean sunfish by experts, the 1.8m-long specimen was first spotted by a group of fishermen driving along the sand.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Armando, a Belgian star racing pigeon, auctioned for 1.25 million Euros

  

  A star racing pigeon named Armando has fetched a record 1.25 million Euros in an online auction, Belgian media reported. The prized bird -- Belgian's best long-distance racer of all time according to those in the know -- was snapped up by a Chinese buyer for a princely sum that caused a flutter of excitement among fanciers.

• Friday, March 15th 2019 - 18:59 UTC

  A sea lion, the star of Punta del Este that rests on sports cars (Watch Video)

  

  In the Uruguayan port of Punta del Este there are a large number of sea lions that are used to people. There is a reason for this: the fishermen in the area have been feeding them for years, so the specimens are used to human presence and also to feed in this way, although it is always recommended not to get too close to these animals on land due their dangerous behavior.