Spanish and Argentinian media hailed Barcelona's Lionel Messi on Wednesday as 'a living legend' and 'eternal after the striker became the club's highest goalscorer of all time.

"Messi rewrites histor

Around 340 people were injured, some of them seriously, on Wednesday when a train derailed and struck a railway station platform in Buenos Aires, transport and health officials said.

Around a dozen a

A packed commuter train slammed into a retaining wall at a railway terminus in Buenos Aires during rush hour on Wednesday, leaving at least 49 dead, 675 injured, and dozens trapped in the wreckage.

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Britain warned Argentina on Friday that it would 'robustly' defend the Falklands if there was a new clash over the sovereignty of the South Atlantic islands.

The warning came after Argentina's foreig

Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday slammed Britain for its 'militarization' of their conflict over the Falklands, saying she would lodge a formal complaint with the United Nations.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday questioned whether the United States could be giving cancer to Latin American leaders, after Argentina's Cristina Kirchner was diagnosed with the disease.

A top Argentine official was found hanged on Tuesday in his hotel room in Montevideo during a summit meeting of the South American trade group Mercosur, police said.

Ivan Heyn, 33, the undersecretary

Argentina complained on Friday that Prince William's six-week mission as a rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, the object of a 1982 British-Argentine war, is 'a provocative act'.

William, second in

A 6.2 magnitude quake struck northern Argentina on Thursday, centered some 139 kilometers (87 miles) from the city of Salta, US geologists said.

The temblor, which had a depth of some 5.9 miles (9.4

A small commercial plane crashed in an isolated part of Patagonia in southern Argentina late on Wednesday, killing all 22 people on board, officials said.

"We did not find anyone alive. There were no