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Timaru skater Nicole Begg wins World Inline CupMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 1:46PMTimaru speedskater Nicole Begg has proved her class in easily taking out the World Inline Cup marathon in South Korea.

Glavic suffered knee injury against HuskiesSunday, September 5, 2010 @ 6:31PMThe University of Calgary Dinos may be without star quarterback Erik Glavic as they prepare for Week 2 of the Canada West football schedule.

Qantas Airways Considering Flights to Brazil, Sydney Morning Herald SaysSunday, September 5, 2010 @ 6:17PMQantas Airways Ltd. is considering starting flights to either Sao Paulo or Rio de Janiero in Brazil, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, without saying where it got the information. A decision to begin flights to Brazil is likely to result in it dropping services to Buenos Aires in Argentina because of insufficient traffic for two routes to South America, the newspaper said.

Humanitarian activist wins appeal in litter caseFriday, September 3, 2010 @ 2:15AMBy Howard Fischer Herald/Review PHOENIX — Human rights activists can’t be charged with littering for leaving bottles of water for migrants on federal property, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. In a split decision, the majority said there is no question that Daniel Millis put sealed, full-gallon bottles of purified water on trails in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge southwest of ...

Fonterra set to open offices in ArgentinaFriday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:01AMFonterra says reports out of Buenos Aires that it is about to start producing milk in Argentina are not correct, but it will open offices there this year.

Holiday freebiesThursday, August 12, 2010 @ 7:42PMSprinkling some cost-free events into your itinerary can stretch the holiday budget. You just need to know where to look, especially in the big cities.

Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist HeroSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 1:28AMWhen the generals began disposing of thousands of young people in the late 1970s, only one journalist dared stand up for the rights of the "disappeared." And then he seemed to vanish from history.

International Investing Requires Overcoming Bias For HomeTuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 11:29AMAs growth goes global, investors need to follow suit.

Books | Review of No Place for Heroes by Laura RestrepoFriday, July 16, 2010 @ 11:44AMNO PLACE FOR HEROES. Laura Restrepo. Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 273 pages. $25.95. In her latest novel, Laura Restrepo navigates the perilous terrain of a mother-son relationship against the historical backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War, an epoch marked by military rule, a fertile underground resistance and hundreds of thousands of desaparecidos, people plucked ...