Argentina News

Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah won the third stage of the Dakar Rally on Monday, edging former world rally champion and overall leader Carlos Sainz of Spain. Al Attiyah, who also won the rally's first stage, finished the 342-mile ride in 4...

Salta A British tourist fell to his death after his safety harness failed when paragliding in northern Argentina on New Year’s Eve. David Mather, 29, was on his first paragliding lesson with an instructor while visiting his brother near the...

Al-Attiyah claimed a narrow triumph in the third special stage of the Dakar Rally to close on overall leader Carlos Sainz. Al-Attiyah (BMW), who won on day one, completed the 695km Puerto Madryn-Ingeniero Jacobacci stage in four hours 29 minutes...

Diego Armando Maradona, the Argentine idol who almost died of drug and alcohol abuse and obesity a year and a half ago, is a heartbeat away from becoming his country's national team head coach. It beggars belief, but even so...

Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah, driving a BMW, clinched the opening stage of the 2009 Dakar Rally on Saturday as defending champions Mitsubishi struggled. Al-Attiyah, the reigning world rally-raid champion, dominated the 371km special stage from Buenos Aires, winning in a time...

Argentina's lower house of parliament has approved a government plan to nationalise private pension schemes worth $30bn (£19bn). President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said the move would protect the funds in the face of the global economic crisis.

But the allegedly skewed numbers should have minimal impact on the confidence of investors, who tend to rely on independent numbers crunched by private firms. "I don't think (investors) even take these figures into account," said economist Carolina Schuff, an...

River Plate coach Diego Simeone resigned on Friday and he will coach his last match with River on Sunday against Huracan club during the opening local tournament. Simeone informed his decision to River's directors in Guadalajara, Mexico, after River was...