American Samoa celebrates first ever football win

November 24, 2011

American Samoa's national football team – ranked by Fifa as the worst team in the world – yesterday won its first ever game. The US protectorate scraped a 2-1 victory over rivals Tonga after an alarming 30 straight defeats across almost two decades. Reporters said the Samoan players and their manager ...

Brazil 2010 census displays changing race balance

November 17, 2011

For the first ever time in history, non-whites make up the biggest majority of Brazil's population, according to preliminary results of last year’s census. Out of around 191 million Brazilians, at least 91 million checked the box that identified themselves as white, with 82 million mixed race and just 15 ...

Ugandan citizen jailed for Kato murder

November 10, 2011

A Ugandan man was today sentenced to at least 30 years in jail for the murder of the African country's leading rights activist for homosexuals, David Kato, in January. Mr Sidney Nsubunga Enoch confessed in court that he bludgeoned Mr Kato with a hammer, although he alleged that he was ...

Argentina convicts drug smuggling beauty queen

November 3, 2011

An-ex Colombian beauty queen was jailed for almost seven years in Argentina after being found guilty of running a drug trafficking ring that operated on an international scale. Angie Sanclemente Valencia, aged 31, had denied assisting her boyfriend in recruiting young women to traffic cocaine to Europe through Mexico. It ...