Buenos Aires

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Oct. 16.

Buenos Aires police said in a statement that Payne fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighborhood of Argentina's capital, resulting in "extremely serious injuries." Medics confirmed his death on the spot, the statement said.

The 31-year-old singer fell to his death under unclear circumstances from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina.

The global music scene was in shock early Thursday after the news of Liam Payne’s death, former One Direction member, who tragically lost his life after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.

BUENOS AIRES - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Buenos Aires ATP tournament after a 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 victory over Chilean Alejandro Tabilo on Wednesday.

Lajovic, who won after 96 minutes of play, will next face the winner of the all-Argentine tie between Facundo Diaz Acosta and Francisco Cerundolo.

BUENOS AIRES - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic is through to the second round of the Buenos Aires ATP tournament after a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Frenchman Arthur Fils last night.

World number 58 Lajovic, who won after 90 minutes of play, is now 1-1 head-to-head against Fils, who is 36th in the ATP rankings.

A complaint of "anti-Semitism" was filed against Roger Waters in Argentina on Nov. 15 as the former Pink Floyd frontman, on tour, accused "the Israeli lobby" of barring him from hotels in South America.

Waters, just off several concerts in Brazil as part of his "This Is Not a Drill" tour, is scheduled to perform in Montevideo today, followed by Buenos Aires next week.

Buenos Aires Yunus Emre Institute has brought together Argentine artists in a project to commemorate highly-regarded Turkish folk poet Aşık Veysel with his poems on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Within the scope of the project carried out by the institute, musicians performed the work of the great artist "Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım" with their local instruments.

Argentines took to the streets on Wednesday to demand what they say is justice for Diego Maradona after the soccer icon's death in November sparked investigations into how he died and whether there had been any negligence in his care.

Diego Maradona's surgeon responded to the launch of an investigation for involuntary manslaughter by saying he did "everything he could, up to the impossible" for an "unmanageable" patient.

Earlier in the day prosecutors in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, said they were investigating Leopoldo Luque while Argentine television showed police raiding the doctor's surgery and home.

Huge crowds bade a grief-filled adieu on Nov. 26 to Argentina's favorite son Diego Maradona before he was buried on the outskirts of the capital after a farewell that at times descended into chaos.

As darkness fell, the football legend was laid to rest after a ceremony attended by family and close friends in the leafy surrounds of the Bella Vista cemetery outside Buenos Aires.

Millions of fans paid tribute and Argentina was sent into mourning on Nov. 25 as Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died aged 60 after years of drug and alcohol problems.