The Buenos Aires World Tango Championships heated up as the qualifying rounds for the Salon style competition kicked off with dancers from around the world showing off their fancy footwork in hopes of moving on to the next round of the competition.

Sultry dancers heat up the stage at Argentina's world tango competition

Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Saturday (April 17) to protest new lockdown measures brought back this week as daily COVID-19 cases surged to record highs.

Argentina: People take to streets in Buenos Aires to protest lockdown

Hundreds of Argentine football fans demonstrated in Buenos Aires to demand Justice for superstar player Diego Maradona.

Argentine Football fans demand justice for superstar player Diego Maradona

Argentines gathered on Wednesday (February 17) in Buenos Aires to express outrage at the latest teen femicide case in the country and demand justice be done to better protect women from violence.

Argentines demand justice after teen femicide shocks the nation

Diego Segura sits just outside the walls of Diego Armando Maradona stadium in Buenos Aires where he paints tributes to the local legend and the global soccer icon who recently passed away.

Argentine street artist immortalizes Maradona

one of the greatest footballer of all time Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires following a heart attack. He recovering from Brain surgery.

Football legend Diego Maradona dies at 60 after suffering a cardiac arrest

Traffic came to a standstill in Buenos Aires on Sunday (November 9) as large crowds turned out on foot and in their cars to protest against the government of President Alberto Fernandez.

Drone video shows massive protest in Buenos Aires against Fernandez's government

Hundreds of Argentine workers took to Buenos Aires streets on Wednesday (October 14) to demand higher wages, welfare plans, and more government action to protect jobs threatened by the coronavirus pandemic.

Angry Argentine workers demand better wages amid pandemic

Argentina has approved HB4 drought-resistant GMO wheat by biotechnology firm Bioceres SA , the company and the government said on Wednesday (October 8), making it the first country in the world to approve a strain of GMO wheat.

Argentina first country to approve GMO wheat

Fans of the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, known as Quino, paid tribute Wednesday after his death at the age of 88. Some visited models of his iconic comic strip 'Mafalda' in Buenos Aires to leave flowers in his honour.

Argentina mourns death of iconic cartoonist Quino

Enraptured faces turned upwards, illuminated by the glare of lights, Argentines on Saturday night (September 6) enjoyed what was billed by its organisers as the first concert of its kind in South America since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

Argentines enjoy first quarantine concert from their cars

The Colombian champion of 2020 Tango World Cup celebrated his victory despite this year's changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Colombia dancer celebrates winning tango world cup

The show must go on, and that was certainly the case for the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires as it moved online on Wednesday (August 26) in keeping with social distancing norms.

Dancing cheek to cheek? World Tango Championship moves online

Mickey, Minnie and Pikachu surprised hundreds of children in a poor neighbourhood in Buenos Aires on Sunday (August 16) to celebrate Children's Day amid coronavirus pandemic.

Mickey, Pikachu, and Minnie bring joy Argentine kids in Children's Day amid pandemic

After more than four months of lockdown, the professional dog walkers of Buenos Aires are back. Since the new coronavirus lockdown was put in place on March 20, dog owners had no option but to walk their dogs themselves without venturing more than a few blocks from their homes.

Professional dog walkers back on Buenos Aires streets

Sebastian Galleguillo, 18, an Argentine paralympic swimmer, has found an unusual way to train during an almost four-month lockdown in and around capital Buenos Aires due to the coronavirus pandemic that saw his local pool close its doors.

Pools shut? No worries. Argentinian paralympic swimmer builds DIY pool with plastic bag

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires on Thursday (July 9) to protest against the national government and the quarantine measures imposed in the city, during Argentina's independence day amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Argentines protest against strict lockdown measures

Joy returned to a nursing home in Tandil, Argentina this week after the installation of a plastic curtain on one of its doors which allows residents to hug their relatives while also preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

Argentine retirement home creates ‘hug curtain’ to embrace grandparents during quarantine

No one can escape Argentina's biggest economic crisis in almost two decades -- not even the dead. The cost of buying, renting and maintaining graves and tombs is so high that many people opt to cremate their loved ones instead.

Cost of maintaining graves hurts Argentinians amid economic downturn

Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales arrived in Argentina on Thursday seeking refuge under the country's new leftist government after he left his homeland last month following a disputed election.

Bolivia's Morales arrives in Argentina, to get refugee status

Alberto Fernandez was sworn in as president of Argentina, vowing to restore growth and redistribute wealth by reversing the austerity policies of his pro-business predecessor, Mauricio Macri.

Peronism returns to Argentina as Alberto Fernandez sworn in as President

In the hard-up neighbourhood of Claypole on the outskirts of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, Elena Escobar makes her way to the local Caritas Felices soup kitchen to serve food to street children who scrape by from meal to meal.

In farm-rich Argentina, hunger cries ring in leaders' ears amid crisis

Argentines reeling from an ongoing economic crisis and a shock election result that wiped out around 25% of the peso's value took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday (August 15) for a demonstration that included a mobile soup kitchen for participants.

"It's getting worse all the time"- Argentines protest even as political talks offer glimmer of hope

About 1,500 Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday (August 08) to mark the first anniversary of a failed bill to legalise abortion in the country, with rival protests celebrating and denouncing the move.

Rival abortion protesters rally in Buenos Aires as issue divides Argentina

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