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We asked if you could recognise this secret city on Twitter, and your guesses were as varied as they come. Here is the answer ...

s joyful reaction to the French revolution – "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!" – , which he fondly believed threatened the ancien regime across all Europe, shows how lasting, powerful – and illusory – is the idea of ubiquitous, socially-levelling, personally liberating rebellion. Following this deceptive formula, the revolts that roiled the Arab world, starting...

Association of diplomats considers criticising the giving of posts to donors who had little or no knowledge about assigned countries Dan Roberts ...

s every need. A man in his late 30s and two slightly younger women walk through the lobby and are seated for lunch in the centre of the adjacent panoramic sun-room. They never notice me – they are too self-absorbed. Their dress is typically Argentinian – neat, but not stylish. He and one woman exchange glances through their dark sunglasses, while the other (likely his sister) looks on. White wine is...

Heatwaves killing Magellanic penguin chicks in Argentina, and Adelie penguins in Antarctica are finding it harder to feed ...

s roads in 2013. "I wasn't prepared for her death," says her sister, Lilian Suárez. "They were coming home at around eight at night in her car, and they got a flat tyre as they drove on to a bridge. They fell into the Aroa river, at a spot where the water is deep and turbulent." It was not the first time that a vehicle fell into the river from that bridge, near the town of Tucaras in the western state...

s difficult for conservative candidates to move forward because inequality is such an entrenched issue," said Ana Quintana, a Latin America expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "And it's hard to implement free-market, institutional reforms when you need to make sure a significant portion of the population can get enough to eat." Latin America's right could once identify itself as pro-business...

s emerging markets amid concerns that the withdrawal of monetary stimulus by the US will add to the turmoil caused by the sudden slump in Argentina. The IMF believes that the next phase of the gradual removal of stimulus to the US economy by the Federal Reserve, due later this week, could be the trigger for fresh turbulence in countries seen as vulnerable to capital flight, such as Turkey and Indonesia....

The Aussie dipped below 87 US cents after RBA member said it could go as low as 80 ...

s government seems at a loss how to proceed, with observers blaming populist policies for woes Following the sudden collapse in the peso this week, some Argentinians fear their country may be lurching into a new episode of the crises that seem to hit the country's economy almost every decade. Scrambling to protect the country's perilously low central bank reserves, which dropped 30% last year and fell...

s major developing economies triggered turmoil on international stock exchanges on Friday. The FTSE 100 fell more than 100 points, or 1.6%, and the US Dow Jones dropped 1.2% as traders reacted to concerns that Argentina, Turkey, South Africa and several vulnerable Central American nations might be on the brink of a currency crisis. Political instability in Ukraine and the nose-diving Venezuelan economy...

s repressive regimes and the 'dirty war' The life of the Argentinian poet Juan Gelman, who has died aged 83, was a vivid, often harrowing, reflection of the times in which he lived, encompassing as it did revolutionary zeal, state-sponsored murder and long years of dealing with the consequences. Gelman's Jewish family went to Argentina early in the 20th century to avoid pogroms in tsarist Russia. They...

Currency falls at fastest rate since 2002 collapse as central bank runs out of reserves to enter market ...

Dollar dips to three-and-a-half-year low as China worries hammer global markets and emerging market currencies  ...

s central bank to stop intervening in the markets to defend the currency. The policy was proving extremely costly, draining Argentina of its foreign currency reserves. With high inflation already a problem, Christina Fernandez's government has been trying to prevent a fall in the value of the peso from pushing up the cost of living by raising the cost of import. The government even imposed restrictions...

The president, previously unstoppable in public utterances, had been silent for 42 days, leading to speculation about her health ...

Ethereal shots of South American landscapes taken by the light of the moon, and ancient Scottish standing stones from the Outer Hebrides, reveal Darren Almond's beautiful interactions with fragile landscapes ...

s images expose what happens when 'you give the landscape longer to express itself' At least two guiding spirits hover around To Leave a Light Impression, the new show by British artist Darren Almond at White Cube, Bermondsey . The most obvious is Charles Darwin , in whose footsteps Almond followed to make several of his images. The other is the lesser-known Scottish nature writer, Nan Shepherd, whose...

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