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Brazil miniskirt student will parade in Carnival
São Bernardo do Campo :: Brazil | 9 days ago
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Brazil — Brazilians may be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades. Geisy Arruda, who became an instant celebrity after being...
Tags: Geisy Arruda, Carnival Brazilians, Sao Paulo, willing parade, Brazil, São Bernardo do Campo, Sￃﾣo Bernardo do Campo, Rio de Janeiro, Carnivals, Sￃﾣo Paulo, Samba, Samba school, Parades, Brazilian Carnival
Brazilian youths treated to Japanese 'anime' posters
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 11 days ago
Credibility The academy's president, Cicero Sandroni, praises the quality of Japanese anime and manga creations, saying they have developed creativity among young people. A 13-year-old junior high school student said, ''Moves of main characters as well as colors...
Tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Education, Manga, Anime, Costume design, Cosplay, Fandom, Otaku
New blackout hits Rio's glitzy beach neighborhoods
Brasília :: Brazil | 11 days ago
Credibility Brazil — Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send their employees home. The outage came two weeks after a massive blackout...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, beach neighborhoods, Ipanema, Brazil, Brasília, Copacabana, Leblon
Rio does away with coconuts on beaches
Brisbane :: Australia | 12 days ago
Credibility The environment secretariat of the host city of the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games has decreed that the big green fruit beloved by thirsty residents and tourists alike is an unhygienic eye-sore and its sale by vendors will be banned...
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Fruit juice, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Environment, Coconut, Tropical agriculture, Coconut water, Hospitality Recreation
BRAZIL: Crack Epidemic - Yet another Tough Nut to Crack in War on Drugs
Brazil :: IN :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility J. ran away from home - a shack in a "favela" or shantytown in Brazil - when he was just eight years old, after he realised that the money he begged for in the streets was spent by his violent father on alcohol and drugs...Frequent beatings by his father...
Tags: Brazilian northeast, Rio de Janeiro, crack addicted, Carlos Salgado, Brazil, Local anesthetics, Stimulants, Crack cocaine, Crack epidemic, War on Drugs, Cocaine, Dopamine reuptake inhibitors, Drug addiction, Social Issues
Sydney bags rights to live World Cup
Sydney :: Australia | 13 days ago
Credibility Around 30,000 fans are expected to gather in Darling Harbour each night from June 11 to July 11 next year to watch the matches being played in South Africa. "We get to host one of the seven live sites around the world," NSW Premier Nathan Rees told Fairfax...
Tags: world cup, Danny Jordaan, Sydney, Australia, Rio de Janeiro, New South Wales, allnews, FIFA World Cup, Jordaan, Gold coins, Summer Olympic Coins, Krugerrand, Bullion coins, Coins, Silver coin, Australia national association football team, Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill, Australia national football (soccer) team, Brett Emerton, FIFA, Sandton Johannesburg, Fan
Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work
Niterói :: Brazil | 15 days ago
Credibility Brazil — Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor. The daily newspaper O Globo reports that Niemeyer is working on a collection of buildings in the...
Tags: Brazil, Niterói, Niterￃﾳi, Rio de Janeiro, O Globo, Oscar Niemeyer, Niemeyer, Brasￃﾭlia
Madonna in-vests in Brazil
São Paulo :: Brazil | 16 days ago
Credibility Having just recently broken ground on a girls’ school in Malawi, Madonna is wasting no time in taking her Raising Malawi organization international. On a recent trip to Brazil, Madonna took time out to tour the Dona Marta shantytown in Rio. Accompanied...
Tags: Dona Marta, Madonna Wore Bullet-Proof Vest, Brazil, proof vests, Rio de Janiero, São Paulo, Marta Vieira da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Homework, Human Interest, Madonna (entertainer), Raising Malawi, Malawi, Education, Bulletproofing, Ballistic vest, Leather jacket, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Jackets, Law Crime, Favela, Poverty, Trackback, Overkill, Slums, Brazilian society
South America's drugs frontline
Pedro Juan Caballero :: Paraguay | 17 days ago
Credibility Candido Figueredo sits on his bullet-riddled porch holding the tools of his trade: a reporter's notepad, a mobile phone and a black 9mm submachine gun. "I'm a rare species of journalist," admits Figueredo, the regional correspondent of Paraguay 's largest...
Tags: Tom Phillips Candido Figueredo, Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguayan, South American, Brazilian, Mariano Baez, Paraguay, Slums, Amambay Department, Drug lord, Brazilian society, Favela, Poverty
Brazilian oil giant announces new offshore find
Campos :: Brazil | 18 days ago
Credibility The light crude was found near the existing Marimba field and the proximity of installed infrastructure will make it possible to begin production at the new site by August 2010, the company said Monday. Petrobras is on track to invest more than the 60...
Tags: Petrobras, Brazil, Campos, Petrobras 36 Oil Platform, Environment, Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Business Finance
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