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• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  GOL Leadership in Internet Ticket Sales for 2005

  Brazil's low cost, low fare airline finished its second consecutive year as one of the largest e-commerce companies in Brazil.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina glacier breaks apart

  Huge chunks of ice have tumbled off Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier - a rare spectacle that prompted a vigil by hundreds of tourists.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile passes anti-smoking law

  Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on Tuesday in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 percent of the people smoke.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  President Uribe posted for an easy re-election next May

  The six coalition parties which support Colombian president Alvaro Uribe managed a comfortable majority in Sundays' congressional elections which forecasts a significant boost for the president's re-election bid next May and his promised fiscal and political reforms in his second four year mandate.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Antarctica loosing 36 cubic miles of ice annually

  University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have used data from a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth in tandem to determine that the Antarctic ice sheet, which harbours 90% of Earth's ice, has lost significant mass in recent years.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  “Good Ilex season” reports Argentine press

  Jiggers operating in Argentina's EEZ are currently reporting significant Illex squid catches, with Puerto Deseado in Santa Cruz province, the main unloading port reports Diario de Madryn.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian Army outfoxed by favelas' drug dealers

  The Brazilian Army withdrew Monday from several Rio de Janeiro favelas, shantytowns, after having failed in recovering sophisticated weapons stolen from the Armed Forces by drug dealers.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil “exported” a billion US dollars in football players

  Between 1994 and 2005 Brazil exported football players to foreign clubs valued in over a billion US dollars reported the Sunday edition of O Estado de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's main newspapers.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Peru's next president could be a nationalist populist

  Peruvian radical populist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala appears neck to neck with conservative candidate Lourdes Flores in the run up to April 9 presidential election, according to the latest public opinion poll.

• Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Armored presidential airliner for Fidel Castro

  Cuba is buying one of Russia's most up-to-date airliners, carefully crafted for President Fidel Castro's personal comfort. The purchase is part of an initial Cuban order for two brand new Ilyushin planes worth 110 million U S dollars which Russian officials say is a shot in the arm for their struggling airline industry.