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The history of Argentina and England transforms every match into something more than a game – a World Cup semi-final raises the stakes even further.
Sovereignty isn’t up for debate, but there might there be other reasons to find a more collaborative approach in the South Atlantic.
Convention suggests wars are named after the participants or the place it which fighting takes place. But who chooses − and why?
Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.
As the ball that Maradona’s fist helped on its way to the back of the net – with some divine help – goes up for auction, a scholar of soccer explains why that goal means so much.
Four decades after it’s invasion was defeated by a UK ‘task force’, Argentina remains committed to ‘recovering’ the Falkland Islands.
Meet the unsung aid workers who put their lives on the line during war and natural disaster to make sure the dead are treated with respect – and that their grieving families get closure.






