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Montevideo, March 23rd 2026 - 09:11 UTC

Entertainment

  • Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

    Falklands' 14 strong team takes on the challenge of the Commonwealth Games

    This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falklands have participated in and this time will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials

    Wednesday marked the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games which are being held from 4 -15 April at the Gold Coast in Australia. This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falkland Islands have participated in and this time they will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Falklands' veteran supports Everton Argentine player Funes Mori: “he is entitled to his opinion”

    Edward Denmark, who fought in the Falklands war, said it showed “integrity” for Ramiro Funes Mori to support his country

    A Falklands war veteran has said that Everton’s player Ramiro Funes Mori is “entitled to his opinion“ after a controversial tweet went viral. The Argentine defender posted, “Las Malvinas son argentinas” which translates as “the Falkland Islands are Argentine” on the anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands, April 2nd.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

    Commonwealth Games program: England listed as part of Africa

    Both England and Gambia had taken it in good humor, he said. England had also declined the offer of a complete re-print.

    England have been listed as an African nation with capital Banjul in the official program for the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony, leaving Gold Coast organizers red-faced. The program, being sold at newsagents and merchandise tents around the Queensland resort, has England’s population listed at just over two million and their first Commonwealth Games appearance in 1970.

  • Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 03:31 UTC

    Stephen Hawking laid to rest alongside Newton and Darwin

    As the funeral procession arrived at St. Mary the Great church, bells rang 76 times -- once for each year of Hawking's life

    People gathered by the hundreds in the English city of Cambridge Saturday to pay their last respects to famed British scientist Stephen Hawking as his remains arrived at St. Mary the Great church where some 500 guests had been invited to the private funeral.

  • Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 09:03 UTC

    Falklands promotes sports challenge with “Road to Gold Coast 2018”

    The Falkland Islands athletes team will be participating in the Commonwealth Games to be held in Gold Coast Australia

    With the Commonwealth Games around the corner, what better way for the Falklands community to get involved than, “a sporting challenge of our own,” asks Infant/Junior School teacher Daniel Harrison.

  • Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

    “Malouines to Malvinas” exhibition in Ushuaia Museum

    The “End of the World” museum in downtown Ushuaia will be hosting the exhibition which is expected to remain open for several months

    Next Thursday the Ushuaia museum in Tierra del Fuego will open an exhibition titled “From Malouines to Malvinas”, depicting history since the French occupation of the Falklands in the XVIIIth century to the first Argentine governor of the Islands.

  • Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

    Video Assistant Referee will be used at the World Cup in Russia

    VAR was first used at the Club World Cup in December 2016, and trialed in the 2017 Confederations Cup.

    Video assistant referees will be used at the World Cup for the first time after Fifa formally approved the technology for this year's tournament. VAR has been trialed in some domestic English cup games this season, and has been used in Germany and Italy.

  • Monday, March 12th 2018 - 16:34 UTC

    Falkland Islands: It's Time for Adventure!

    The Falkland Islands...one of the last great wilderness destinations on the planet, where your trip becomes an adventure. Four wheel drives are our mode of transport, and our little planes will take you to islands abundant with penguins, albatrosses and petrels that are there for you alone to discover and enjoy.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

    Coca Cola plans to launch a canned alcoholic drink in the Japanese market

    “We're also going to experiment with a product in a category known in Japan as Chu-Hi,” Jorge Garduno, president of Coca-Cola Japan said

    Coca-Cola announced plans to launch a canned, alcoholic drink in Japan later this year which is an innovative approach in a market that it regularly launches new products in. In its news release announcing the planned product, Coca-Cola touts Japan as a market that has “stood out as an almost truly unique market.”

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

    Oscar winning Fantastic Woman Chilean actress speaks of transgender inequalities

    Vega said that, in Chile, “I have a name on my identity card that is not my name”. “I do not have the possibility of having my own name on my official documents”

    Chilean actress Daniela Vega made history by becoming the first transgender presenter at the Oscars ceremony. But, at a news conference after meeting Chile's President Michelle Bachelet this week, she spoke of the inequalities transgender people face in her home country.