Buenos Aires, Argentina News

You can't help but notice that the skin of Buenos Aires is heavily tattooed: not just with graffiti, but by large and vivid murals, and spray-on stencil art.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Millions of Argentines stayed home from work, churches in Bolivia canceled Mass and Ecuador announced its first fatalities from swine flu on Friday, as the virus continues its spread during the South American winter season.

Buenos Aires province governor, Daniel Scioli, said "I have been to Berazategui's, Malvinas Argentinas', Cauelas', Florencio Varela's and Merlo's Hospitals and their authorities told me that H1N1 consultations decreased," since the pandemic outbreak.

Self-Ventilated Envelope and Thermoformed Interior Partitions at Pampas House, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, is trying to give her a boost with his own campaign for Congress, a run he has used to remind voters of his success in bringing Argentina back from economic catastrophe during his 2003-2007 administration.

By JEANNETTE NEUMANN BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Global warming is not taking a toll on at least one glacier.

A worker cleans the entrance of a closed bingo hall in Pergamino, Argentina, Wednesday, July 1 2009.

Efforts by some state senators and Republican Party activists to oust Gov. Mark Sanford lost steam Monday: There were no plans to collectively call for the governor's resignation.

A man, wearing a face mask as a precaution against swine flu, is seen through a glass window as he seeks medical attention at a waiting area of a hospital in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina She is a 43-year-old, divorced mother of two teenage boys who wants to believe she can still experience true love.

Grade 1 winner Stormello , who has stood his first two seasons at stud at Dr. Tom Simon's Vinery in Lexington, will shuttle to Alberto Stein's Haras La Leyenda in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere season.

Myanmar's highest court has rejected an appeal by lawyers of Aung San Suu Kyi to reinstate two key defense witnesses in a trial that has sparked global outrage.

Sex, Lies, and Gov. Sanford The news media is abuzz with the revelation of South Carolina Governor Mark Stanford's infidelity.

Maria Belen Chapur, in an image taken from a 2001 video on YouTube. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina The mystery of who revealed Gov.

Glass of wine leads to arrest Associated Press - June 26, 2009 6:53 PM ET BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The leading newspaper in Argentina is apologizing for publishing the e-mails by an Argentine woman who became South Carolina Gov.

Although Sanford described the visit in a statement Thursday as "an entirely professional and appropriate business development trip," Argentina has been a financial pariah since it defaulted on its international debt after its decade-long effort to peg its currency to the U.S. dollar collapsed in late 2001.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Swine flu has been detected in numerous pigs at a farm near the Argentine capital, but the virus has not shown itself to be any deadlier to the animals than a normal flu, the government said Friday.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina TV camera operators and photographers camped Thursday outside the apartment building where Argentina's mystery woman lives.

New Nixon insights A A June 25: On a new batch of Nixon audiotapes, the former president can be heard discussing the Vietnam War, the release of P.O.W.s, abortion and the safeguarding of these very White House tapes.