If you're a football fanatic or travelling with one, top of the sightseeing list in Buenos Aires is La Boca.

The bald, short hotel receptionist in Buenos Aires was having a bad day, or if he wasn't he was certainly determined to make sure all his guests did.

With the All Whites' surprise World Cup success, it seems soccer awareness is on the rise. And kids and parents alike are loving it, writes Gill South.

The latest Chinese bid for the Crafar dairy farms is a key test for new rules on foreign ownership, reports Karyn Scherer

Status as true global player closer now company has a foot in most world markets.

The All Blacks and Wallabies are set to play a third Bledisloe Cup test match every year, starting next year.

Rising at dawn is something I know more about in theory than in practice.

The Hotel Caoca is an unlikely hangout for an accused drug smuggler. But this is where Sharon Armstrong spent much of her seven days in Buenos Aires...

An Argentinian paper has revealed fresh details of how a NZ woman was tricked into smuggling cocaine out of the country...

Sharon Armstrong, former Maori Language Commission deputy chief executive, has been detained in Buenos Aires.

This isolated area of South America is home to majestic glaciers, Magellanic penguins, elephant seals and cormorant... as well as some 50,000 beavers, a handful of which were introduced in the 19th century.

Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

The jewels in Brazil's crown range from opulent beaches to colourful slums, writes Geoff Cumming.

Rio de Janeiro balances the dreamy opulence of sunny beaches with the reality of life in the favelas.

Justin Newcombe pays tribute to an icon of the New Zealand garden, one that is just coming into season.

Jill Worrall embarks on a cruise through Patagonia from Chile's southernmost city.