ARGENTINA

When major economic and social problems arise, it’s almost always preferable for the stakeholders to reform the existing economic system.

Argentina's biggest energy firm YPF has announced that it had found nearly a billion barrels in unconventional energy resources in Patagonia. YPF is the Argentine unit of Repsol YPF SA, Spain's largest oil group.

La Mancha Resources Inc. posted a record third quarter on a big jump in gold prices and more efficient operations, the Canadian gold miner said Tuesday.

Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva, 19, is on the list of FIFA's Players to Watch in 2011.

Airlines such as Delta, JetBlue and United Continental have begun offering more flights to Cuba through licensed charter companies.

The collapse of BP's planned sale of a $7 billion stake in an Argentinean unit has renewed investor concerns about its strategy, a fortnight after Chief Executive Bob Dudley said the group had reached a turning point after its Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

With the January transfer window close at hand, Merseyside heavy weight Liverpool will make an attempt to land dissatisfied Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez at Anfield as Reds manager Kenny Dalglish will look to bolster his currently faltering attacking line.

Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's most expensive player, boosted up his bid to grab the Golden Boot again with yet another sparkling performance. At 83,000-seat Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Ronaldo struck a hat-trick as Spanish leader Real Madrid crushed 10-man Osasuna 7-1 on Sunday.

BP's $7 billion deal to sell its stake in South America's Pan American Energy has collapsed because of legal issues, the would-be Chinese and Argentine buyers said on Sunday.

World number one Novak Djokovic was surprisingly beaten by unseeded Kei Nishikori of Japan in the semi-finals of the Basel Open on Saturday, suffering a new injury setback in the process.

Factbox on the Breeders' Cup meeting, to be run at Churchill Downs on Friday and Saturday.

This year's Paris Masters will miss World number two Rafael Nadal who pulled out of next week's tournament so as to concentrate on the ATP World Tour Finals in London and the Davis Cup final.

A fossil of a sabre-toothed squirrel has been found in Argentina.

Multiple Fortune 100 companies were the victims of a coordinated series of cyber attacks dubbed Nitro, says security firm Symantec Corp. At least 48 firms - all of which are involved in the chemical and defense industries - were subject to the attack, which has been traced back to a computer system owned by a man in his twenties working out of northern China.

Here is the list of the nominees for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d’Or World Player of the Year.

The nondescript stretch of asphalt is an unlikely symbol of Brazil's attempt to lift its economy into a new high-tech era.

American oil and gas company Apache Corp plans to increase investments in its Egypt operations by $1.5 billion starting in 2012, Egypt's General Authority for Free-zones and Investments said on Saturday.

Vancouver-based Argentex Mining Corp. said Friday that Argentina's new decree tax repatriation law will not affect the company in the near term.

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler said on Thursday he was sober when he fell in the shower in his Paraguay hotel room earlier this week.

Alfredo Astiz, Argentina's infamous Blond Angel of Death, and 11 other death squad members from the 1970s were jailed for life on Wednesday

Argentina's oil, gas and mining companies must start repatriating all export revenue, according to an order by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration, which is struggling to halt capital flight from the inflation-plagued economy.