SAO PAULO (AP) -- Palmeiras goalkeeper Fernando Prass was injured when team fans frustrated by a defeat in the Copa Libertadores confronted players at an airport in Argentina on Thursday. Prass had to be treated for a cut in his head, but no one was seriously hurt in the altercation before the team's return to Brazil, according to Brazilian media with the team. The supporters, wearing jerseys from the team's biggest fan group, faced the players while they were waiting to board their flight back to Read more [...]

Newcastle United captain Fabricio Coloccini could face up to seven weeks on the sidelines after breaking two bones in his back. The center back suffered the injury while acrobatically clearing the ball during Newcastle's 4-2 win over Southampton at St James' Park on Feb. 24 and has not featured for the club since. Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has confirmed the 31-year-old Coloccini has returned to Argentina to be assessed by the national side’s medical team, and he could be out until May. "Colo Read more [...]

The centre-back has returned to Argentina to be assessed by the national side's medical team after he broke two bones in his back during an acrobatic clearance Read more [...]

A court in Buenos Aires began hearing a case on Tuesday that charges top South American officials in power during the 1970s and 1980s with carrying out a coordinated killing campaign known as Operation Condor. The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had launched the transnational conspiracy in an effort to rid neighboring countries of leftist opposition. Argentina's former junta leader Rafael Videla, 87, (pictured above, second from the right) and Reynaldo Bignone, 85, are scheduled to stand trial. Read more [...]

A court in Buenos Aires began hearing a case on Tuesday that charges top South American officials in power during the 1970s and 1980s with carrying out a coordinated killing campaign known as Operation Condor. Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had launched the transnational conspiracy in an effort to rid neighboring countries of leftist opposition. Argentina's former junta leader Rafael Videla, 87, (pictured above, second from the right) and Reynaldo Bignone, 85, are scheduled to stand trial. Read more [...]

Argentina began a long-awaited human rights trial Tuesday focused on Operation Condor, the 1970s conspiracy launched by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to enlist South America's dictators in a combined effort to leave no refuge for their leftist critics. The 25 defendants include former Argentine junta leaders Rafael Videla, 87, and Reynaldo Bignone, 85, both already serving life sentences for multiple human rights violations during the 1976-1983 Read more [...]

All Blacks and their supporters are treated like royalty in soccer-mad Argentina, writes James Ihaka We are heading to Quilmes on the southern fringes of Buenos Aires for an All Blacks training session and on the way, we're the subject of the kind of attention normally afforded to rock stars. A cavalcade of the city's special armed police force ride in pairs on motorbikes that duck in and out of traffic, sirens blaring, lights flashing, and using large rubber batons they whack on tardy cars that Read more [...]

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would be the first Jesuit pope if chosen, has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests. Leonardo Sandri, who left for Rome 42 years ago, is a Vatican insider who has run the day-to-day operations of the global church’s vast bureaucracy and roamed the world as a papal diplomat.The election of either of them as pope might help to reconcile two conflicting trends in the papal election: the push to return to the tradition Read more [...]

LONDON: Carlos Tevez is determined to win back the hearts of Manchester City fans who still resent the way he walked out on the club last season. Tevez, 29, returned home to Argentina to be with his family for several months after slapping in a transfer request and only returned when it was clear there were no bidders for his services. But he claims he is a changed man, now that his wife and children are back in England with him and he has worked his way back into contention for a regular first Read more [...]

BRITAIN’S man in the Falklands launched an outspoken attack on Argentina last night as the Islanders prepare to decide their fate. Governor Nigel Haywood accused Buenos Aires of “making stuff up” in its relentless verbal assault on the UK and the Islands. And with a referendum on whether the Falklanders want to remain British just seven days away, he vowed to keep “pushing back” against the “extraordinary” sabre-rattling. Speaking to The Sun in his official Read more [...]