Paraguay deployed its army yesterday to resolve a violent land dispute in a remote northern forest reserve, where 17 people have been killed in gunbattles between police and landless farmers.
Brazil's state-led oil company Petrobras is likely to struggle to find the cash to pay the recently announced world's largest corporate investment programme
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, made his first major public appearance since a hospital stay for a bladder infection, attending the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony in central London.
River Plate suffered a major strike to their hopes of promotion as Patronato put Matias Almeyda's men in shock with a 1-0 victory.