Italy mourns. 'The last great master is dead,' headlined the newspapers. Bernardo Bertolucci, known worldwide as the director of the films The Last Emperor and Novecento, died in Rome after a long illness.
Francisco Tejón, leader of the dreaded Castañas drug gang in southern Spain, pulls a long nose to the Spanish police. He appears together with the singer of Latin group Clase A in a video clip of the reggaeton song 'Candela'. The video was published last week and has been viewed more than 50,000 times.
The Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has declared himself to the police. He is taken to a cell in the city of Curitiba in the south of Brazil.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has passed the deadline to report to the Brazilian police. According to the media, the former president is negotiating about this.
Two skiers have been killed by an avalanche in the Italian Abruzzo. Both victims were buried on Sunday when they were off the slopes of the ski area Campo Felice, rescue workers reported.
Italian talk show Parliamone Sabato (Let's talk about Saturday) was shut down following a riot like a challenge sexist statements about Eastern European and Italian women. The boss of the state broadcaster RAI, Antonio Campo Dall'Orto, announced Monday that the program on the channel RAI1 to stop it, the ANSA news agency reported.
An Italian wild Wednesday so eager to see how Juventus took on Crotone, he decided to invent a disease. The stadium with 16,000 seats were sold out stiff, but the nearby hospital has a good view of the field.
For the second time in a year this week became a young dolphin suffered the selfie-drive tourists to the Argentine beaches. This time it was a group of tourists in San Bernardo, just south of Buenos Aires, which lifted a young animal out of the water for them to be photographed.
A spectacular crop circle west of Munich attracts these days an almost endless row of spectators. Near a Grindgat in Mammendorf one can marvel in a cornfield on an artistic creation that resembles a giant flower.
The Italian Mafia boss Bernardo Prevenzano deceased in prison. Provenzano, who used the 'boss of bosses' was called, was 83 years old.
Brazil's ex-Minister of Planning and Communications, Paulo Bernardo, was arrested Thursday in the long-running investigation into corruption around the state oil company Petrobras. Bernardo was names the Workers Party (PT) minister in the government of President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rousseff has been provisionally suspended by the parliament as head of state in May this year.
A crash of a small plane in a northern suburb of Sao Paulo Saturday afternoon (local time) come seven people dead. The victims include the former president of the mining company Vale, Roger Agnelli, his wife and two children as well as the pilot of the unit.
Panic in Argentina. Near Buenos Aires are some beaches flooded with millions of beetles. Social media is prompting speculation about the origin of the animals.
An Argentine referee handing out a red card must pay with their lives. The arbitrator directed according to Argentine media Sunday a young player on the field after a foul during a local soccer match in Campo de la Ribera. The footballer indeed stepped on the field, but then grabbed a gun from his backpack and shot the 48-year-old clerk of death.
The two families of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this week have been arrested for drug trafficking and transferred to the US, do not enjoy diplomatic immunity. That said a spokesman for the US State Department Friday.
Two relatives of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have been arrested in Haiti and moved to the United States. The pair is Thursday charged with cocaine trafficking and the laundering of drug money.
A cousin of Venezuela's first lady was arrested and transferred to the United States on charges of drug trafficking. That said an unnamed source told Reuters Wednesday.
