Brazil’s loss of their star player has dented their chances of winning a record sixth World Cup as they go on to face Germany in the semifinals.
Dilma Rousseff was placed first in Brazil’s election on Sunday but will face a run-off after some voters were turned off at the last minute.
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/ 9 November 2008
The world’s leading economies, including emerging powers like China, agreed on Saturday on the need to take measures to stimulate growth.
Vilma Espin, the wife of acting Cuban president Raul Castro and one of the most powerful women in Cuba long before her husband took over office from his convalescing brother Fidel Castro, died on June 18. She was 77. State-run television said Espin died from complications from a long illness.