Falkland Islands

• Sunday, May 20th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Of garden gnomes and penguins

  Back in 1983, when I was the FT's Buenos Aires correspondent, I wrote about my 14,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands, two ways across the Atlantic, via the RAF base of Brize Norton in Oxfordshire via Dakar, Ascension Island, and an unscheduled emergency landing in southern Brazil.

• Saturday, May 19th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Governor Mr. Donald Lamont back in the Islands.

• Friday, May 18th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News.

• Thursday, May 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Amazon source discoverer dies

  An eccentric amateur explorer who claimed to have discovered the true source of the River Amazon, Sebastian Snow, has died in England, aged 72.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  FIBS Hot News

• Monday, May 14th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentines catch poachers.

• Friday, May 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News.

• Friday, May 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Agenda Released for 47th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Train Robber Ronnie Biggs back in Britain. Under arrest, in court, and appealing for release.

  Ronald Biggs, the Great Train Robber, who spent many years in Brazil as a fugitive from British justice, is back behind bars in an English jail. Mercopress Correspondent Harold Briley, formerly based in Brazil as a foreign correspondent, knew Ronnie Biggs in Rio de Janeiro.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Punta Arenas: coordinated cruise promotion.