Latest from South America

Buenos Aires: Over-run by the furry masses

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.

Having a ball as soccer clubs take off

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.

Soccer: Fifa work for officials

Mainfreight dips toes into Chile

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

What price NZ? Land bid tests limits

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

Wellington Zoo puts down peccaries

Pharmac still a good model for NZ: Key

Patagonia: Rounding the Horn, the Everest of sailing

It's a 5.30am wake-up call this morning and until we get up on deck there's no way to tell if we're going to be able to take the zodiacs and land on Horn Island, Cape Horn.

Club rugby wrap

Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

Family: NZer cocaine accused was duped

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

Want to eat at one of the world's best restaurants? You'll be lucky

A place on the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants has become one of the most sought-after honours for restaurateurs.

Patagonia: Excrement-flinging birds and other wildlife

Jill Worrall finds some 19th century parallels with New Zealand history in South America's deep south.

Patagonia: Glacial beauty

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.

Pen-pincher mocked on Facebook

Book Review: <i>In The Company Of Angels</i>

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.

Don't shoot, children beg

Crocs snaps back from feared death roll

Ecuador ejects US ambassador