MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro became the highest seed dumped out of the Australian Open on Saturday when he was stunned 6-3 6-3 6-7 3-6 6-3 by France's Jeremy Chardy in their third-round clash.The sixth-seeded Argentine, the only player outside of the 'Big Four' of men's tennis to have won a grand slam in the last eight years, had come into the match in ominous form, conceding only 13 games to his first two opponents, Read more [...]

Home Agriculture News Article Jan 19 2013 more articles from JEDDAH - Grains supply and demand estimates for 2012/13 have been revised up slightly, but output is still seen sharply lower, down 4 percent year-on-year (y/y,) at 1,777 million tons (mt), the International Grain Council said Thursday in its Grain Market Report. The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop Read more [...]

NEWCASTLE: Ameobi rejects comparisons with relegation campaign 8:00am Saturday 19th January 2013 in Sport By Scott Wilson NEWCASTLE: Ameobi rejects comparisons with relegation campaign Read more [...]

Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta insisted this week MotoGP will race in Argentina in 2014 and may also add a round in Brazil next year, creating a double-dip in South America. The Argentine race, at the remote new Autodromo Rio de Hondo circuit, was scheduled for this season but postponed due to political strife between the governments of Spain and Argentina due to the Argentine government nationalizing Repsol YPF, the country's subsidiary of the Spanish oil giant that has deep, long sponsorship ties Read more [...]

BERLIN: German football legend Gerd Mueller has said he was was “proud to have the shirt of the best player in the world” after receiving a jersey from Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi. “I am very grateful and proud to have the shirt of the best player in the world,” said Mueller in Munich on Thursday, as he handed the shirt over to club boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge so it could be placed in the Bavarian club’s museum. Messi, the reigning four-time Ballon d’Or winner, sent Mueller, Read more [...]

The mayor of Bariloche in Argentina is out of a job after a wave of shop-looting in the Andean resort town. The city council voted 10-1 on Friday to remove him for malfeasance, ineptitude and negligence related in large part to a looting spree that broke out just before Christmas. Mayor Omar Goye accepted his suspension but refused to resign, setting up a popular referendum in April that he says he hopes to win. Goye was a loyal supporter of Read more [...]

Scandal broke a recently in Argentina, when Justice Minister Alak was accused of having hosted an "end-of-the-year" barbecue at the premises of the former clandestine detention center Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA) -- currently the Museum of the Memory. Part of the opposition and several human rights organizations condemned the celebration: some did it with a high degree of opportunism, while others took the opportunity to make more substantial complaints about Read more [...]

Telecom Argentina SA posted its biggest weekly gain since 2009 as investors were attracted to its cheap valuation and high dividend yield relative to Latin American peers. Shares rose 3.3 percent to 20.65 pesos at the close in Buenos Aires as trading surged to more than five-times the three-month daily average. Today’s gain pushed the weekly five- day advance to 15 percent, the best weekly performance since June 2009. Telecom Argentina, the country’s largest Read more [...]

The mayor of Bariloche in Argentina is out of a job after a wave of shop-looting in the Andean resort town. The city council voted 10-1 on Friday to remove him for malfeasance, ineptitude and negligence related in large part to a looting spree that broke out just before Christmas. Mayor Omar Goye accepted his suspension but refused to resign, setting up a popular referendum in April that he says he hopes to win. Goye was a loyal supporter of Read more [...]

Man dies in Victoria bushfire As many as five homes are feared lost in the eastern Victorian town of Seaton, where a man's body was found in a burnt-out car. Read more Read more [...]