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Argentine president poised for re-election: polls

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has a massive lead over opponents two weeks before a presidential election and looks set to win more than 50 percent of the vote, two polls showed on Sunday.

Eva Peron ‘kept Nazi treasure taken from Jews’

Eva Peron, the former Argentine first lady, is believed to have kept Nazi treasures taken from wealthy Jewish families killed in concentration camps, according to a new book.

Argentina's Fernandez hand strengthened by primary

Hilary Burke and Luis Andres Henao Reuters 08/15/2011

Argentine lab clones cow to produce human-like milk

David Paul Morris Yahoo! News California 06/10/2011

Center-left Argentine President Cristina Fernandez looks set to win a second term in October and deepen her interventionist policies after thrashing rivals in a primary election, results showed on Monday.

Argentine lab clones cow to produce human-like milk

An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk.

Woman Survives 23-Story Fall from Hotel

A 33-year-old woman leaped from a 23rd floor hotel restaurant in Buenos Aires, landed on a taxi cab parked on the street below ... and survived, according to reports Monday.

Report: Thieves entered through tunnel in Buenos Aires bank heist

Authorities in Argentina's capital are searching for at least three people who allegedly broke into a bank through an underground tunnel, state media reported.

Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner dies

Argentina's former President, Nestor Kirchner, has died at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack.

Doctors remove world's largest malignant tumour weighing FOUR STONE from woman, 54

Doctors have removed a tumour weighing nearly four stone from a woman in Argentina. It had been growing inside her body for 18 months.

Argentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote

MICHAEL WARREN My Way News 07/15/2010
Argentina Has Colder Winter Than Antartica, Spurring Record Power Imports

Argentina is importing record amounts of energy as the coldest winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co. and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back production.

Argentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote

Argentina legalized same-sex marriage Thursday, becoming the first country in Latin America to grant gays and lesbians all the legal rights, responsibilities and protections that marriage gives heterosexual couples.


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