Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said that there has been progress in creating the conditions for Britain to discuss the ownership of the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands. "We are advancing towards creating political and diplomatic conditions so that finally the United Kingdom understands that it should comply with United Nations mandates and sit down to negotiate with Argentina," Taiana said ...

South America's most famous opera house will reopen May 24, nearly four years after it shut down for a monumental restoration that has run two years over schedule. Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri set the date in a Wednesday announcement revealing that the Teatro Colon ...

Alfredo Astiz, a former naval captain who earned the nickname the Blond Angel of Death during Argentina's 1976-1983 military rule, was defiant in his first remarks in his trial Wednesday for crimes against humanity. Astiz, 58, and 16 other naval staff are on trial for the killings of opponents of the government, real and perceived, at the Naval Mechanics ...

International Rugby Board (IRB) president Bernard Lapasset is backing Argentina's integration into the Tri-Nations tournament by 2012. In September, Argentina were "conditionally" invited to join the Tri-Nations by SANZAR, the organising body representing South Africa, New Zealand and Australia that runs the tournament. "A number of problems arise with the integration of Argentina into this competition," Lapasset said in ...