CHILE Summer News, Jan 01, 2012

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Barcelona's Alexis Sanchez aims to emulate 'best player in the world' Lionel Messi Goal.com The Chile star joined Barcelona from Udinese in the summer of 2011 in a £33 million deal, and insists that he is keeping his feet on the ground despite his meteoric rise. “At Barcelona I am going step-by-step,” Sanchez was quoted as saying by ... See all stories on this topic »

COMMENT: The gathering storm —Lal Khan Pakistan Daily Times The Arab Spring, the European Summer and the American Fall was an upheaval that traversed the planet. For the first time in history there were demonstrations in more than 900 cities across the world in support of the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in ... See all stories on this topic »

Rumor Central: Backe shoots down Arsenal stay for Henry Major League Soccer 28, 2011) CHILE ENOUGH FOR YA IN CANADA?: If reports out of Chile are correct, one of the Canadian MLS clubs is about to sign a new left back: Miguel Aceval. The 28-year-old is currently with Universidad de Concepcion in the Chilean first division, ... See all stories on this topic »

Sanchez looking forward SkySports The 23-year-old Chile international moved to Camp Nou from Udinese lastsummer in a €26 million deal after five successful years in Serie A. He has made 12 appearances for the Catalan giants so far this season, scoring five goals - four of those coming ... See all stories on this topic » SkySports

World welcomes 2012 Nation News In 2012, London will host the Summer Olympics and pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee marking her 50 years on the throne. England was relatively late to the party, which began 14 hours earlier (at 5 am ET) in Samoa, Tokelau and the ... See all stories on this topic » Nation News

Before Posthumous, he was just Bolano MiamiHerald.com Born in Chile, raised in Mexico, a resident of Spain, he straddled the Spanish-speaking world, flouted its assiduously guarded boundaries. His peripatetic characters — obsessed geeks who played, read and wrote as if it were their last day on Earth ... See all stories on this topic » MiamiHerald.com

Looking back at sports stories of 2011 that left mark on region Times Herald-Record This summer, Dolson scored a game-high 15 points to lead the US Under-19 women's national basketball team over Spain to win the gold medal at the FIBA World Championships in Puerto Montt, Chile. Still young, still developing, only a sophomore Dolson ... See all stories on this topic »

Ebb and flow portfolio Buffalo News The stock market plunged during the summer when those problems erupted, but rebounded in the fall when it appeared that deals were in the works that could resolve the crisis, at least for the moment. At the sametime, US companies had a good year, ... See all stories on this topic » Buffalo News

2011 was a big year for the arts Las Cruces Sun-News Rokoko Gallery, site of some imaginative new group shows by Mitch and A.me Alamag, including the well-received "Summer Salute to Snakes," celebrated a grand opening in May. But the Preston Contemporary Art Center decided to call it quits and announced ... See all stories on this topic »

Let's talk about the anti-revolutions Daily News & Analysis ... Spain, France, Hong Kong, UK, Chile, Turkey, the Philippines. In India as we know, an anti-government, anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare captured the national imagination for several weeks in 2011, not to mention TRPs and broadcast time. ... See all stories on this topic »

Top 5 of 2011: Breakers New England Soccer Today By the time DiCicco left the national team, he had amassed a very successful record of 103-8-8. In 2008, DiCicco re-joined the national coaching fold to coach the U-20 team at the World Cup in Chile. DiCicco won the tournament with that team as well. ... See all stories on this topic »

Riding the 2011 wave into the Year of the Dragon Juneau Empire Other countries from Turkey to Chile are retreating from the nuclear solution. We should be doing the same. Instead we seem to be once again relying on our technological ability to rescue us. According to the Obama Administration, the Gulf of Mexico is ... See all stories on this topic »

100 facts about New Mexico as it marks 100 years of statehood Carlsbad Current Argus Summer 1950 — Paddy Martinez of the Navajo Nation discovers uranium on Haystack Mountain near Grants. The ensuing mining boom would last 30 years, spurred by the world race to develop atomic en-ergy. 35. Oct. 17, 1950 — Miners in Grant County begin a ... See all stories on this topic »

  

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