Sept 18 (Reuters) -

GENEVA/BRUSSELS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Five candidates from Nigeria to South Korea are bidding to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organization to replace Roberto Azevedo, who stepped down at the end of August.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Three women and two men bidding to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organization advanced to the second round of the selection process, the Geneva-based body said on Friday.

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Juventus have terminated the contract of Gonzalo Higuain by mutual consent, the Serie A champions have confirmed, with the Argentine forward closing in on a switch to David Beckham's Major League Soccer (MLS) side Inter Miami.

NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's honeymoon with the International Monetary Fund is about to be tested as it looks to update a $57 billion agreement struck two years ago that failed to prevent a slide into recession and the country's ninth sovereign default.

SAN JOSE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Costa Rica on Thursday proposed privatizations, tax increases and additional austerity measures ahead of a negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a package to help the Central American country's struggling economy.

(Reuters) - Tropical Depression Twenty-Two is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm on Friday as it moves northward over the western Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican environmental committee on Thursday delayed for one year rules that would have obliged the country to manufacture, import and use only trucks and buses that run on ultra-low sulfur diesel, the environmental ministry said.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's conservative interim president, Jeanine Anez, pulled out of next month’s general election on Thursday, a move that should strengthen other candidates running against the front-running socialist party of ex-leader Evo Morales.