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/ 8 November 2008
Looking to take the first steps toward revamping a global financial system ravaged by crisis, leaders gather on Saturday seeking common ground.
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/ 4 November 2008
Timo Glock has denied he let Lewis Hamilton get by him on the final lap of the decisive Brazilian Grand Prix.
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/ 3 November 2008
Lewis Hamilton roared into the record books as Formula One’s youngest champion on Sunday when he snatched the title at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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/ 2 November 2008
Lewis Hamilton qualified in a disappointing fourth place for Sunday’s Brazilian GP, but insisted he felt under no pressure.
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/ 1 November 2008
Briton Lewis Hamilton on Friday shrugged off racial abuse and other stunts aimed at damaging his chances in Sunday’s showdown Brazilian Grand Prix.
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/ 31 October 2008
This time last year, Lewis Hamilton was within one race of becoming the only driver to win the F1 title in his first year.
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/ 30 October 2008
Lewis Hamilton and his sole remaining rival, Felipe Massa, race to settle the outcome of the Formula One drivers’ world championship on Sunday.
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/ 29 October 2008
For the second year in a row, Lewis Hamilton heads to the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix heavily favoured to win the Formula One title.
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/ 10 September 2008
The boom in biofuel production in Latin America, particularly Brazil, is benefiting corporations but not local people, said environmentalists.
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/ 2 September 2008
Britain’s Observer has apologised for a ”misleading” article about dramatic images apparently of a ”lost” Brazilian tribe.
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/ 1 September 2008
Officials from the G20 group of nations wrapped up a weekend meeting on Sunday that examined the effects of slowing world economic growth.
Vast swathes of the western Amazon are to be opened up for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet’s most biodiverse forests at risk.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is working to salvage world trade talks that recently collapsed.
Even Dr Rhonan Ferreira da Silva, an experienced Brazilian forensic expert, was shocked when the body of British teenager Cara Marie Burke arrived.
Housekeeper Leonides de Moraes is part of the emerging middle class fuelling Brazil’s economic revival — but try telling her that.
São Paulo puts on a display of Japanese culture for visiting Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito.
With a plasma TV, a DVD player, 000 in cash, gym equipment, two refrigerators and a couple of guns, Genilson Lino da Silva had everything he needed for a luxurious life — in his Brazilian prison cell.
Dramatic images of an isolated Brazilian tribe believed never to have had contact with the outside world were published by officials on Friday to draw attention to threats posed to their way of life. The pictures showed alarmed Amazon Indians pointing bows and arrows at the aircraft carrying photographers.
A Rio de Janeiro tour company could be in trouble for giving tourists too intimate a view of life in the city’s notorious slums, including photo opportunities with drug gang leaders. The Brazilian city’s tourism chief said on Monday that the company, Private Tours, could be stripped of its licence.
Brazilian star striker Ronaldo revealed on Monday that he was ”incredibly ashamed” over last week’s encounter with a trio of transvestites, which he believes will mark him for life. ”I’ve cried a lot. I was incredibly ashamed,” Ronaldo (31) said in an interview with TV Globo published in the press on Monday.
Ronaldo went into hiding on Tuesday after an encounter with cross-dressing sex-workers that prompted police to investigate whether to charge one with trying to extort money from the three-time Fifa player of the year. The AC Milan striker, in Brazil recovering from a knee surgery, cancelled two TV appearances, and local media said he will continue physiotherapy at his home.
An earthquake measuring 5,2 on the Richter scale shook southern Brazil overnight, scaring many but causing no significant damage or casualties, officials and media said. It was the strongest temblor to hit the region in a century, the news group Globo said. The epicentre was 270km off Brazil’s south-east coast.
A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing on Monday off the southern coast of Brazil. Rescuers in helicopters and small fishing boats were searching off the coast of Santa Catarina state, where pieces of balloons were found.
At least 33 people have died in two weeks of flooding in north-east Brazil, and more than 77 000 people have been left homeless, with officials warning on Wednesday that the heavy rain would continue. The state of Paraiba was the worst-hit, according to the national Civil Defence service. Twenty-six of the fatalities occurred there, and 76 towns are under water.
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/ 4 February 2008
Gargantuan animal effigies and honed dancers wearing nothing but a bit of glitter between their legs turned Rio into a fantasy land overnight as the city’s world-famous carnival parades got under way. The processions are the high point of Brazil’s five-day pre-Lent celebrations.
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/ 29 January 2008
A Carnival float with a pile of model dead bodies commemorating the Holocaust is causing unease before the lavish parades in Rio de Janeiro this weekend. The Viradouro samba organisation plans to feature the display when it marches in the Sambadrome parade strip on Sunday, despite objections from a local Jewish group.
The Amazonian rainforest and the Andes mountains could replace the African desert as South America vies to stage the Dakar Rally. Argentina, Brazil and Chile are looking into the possibility of hosting the race later this year and there are also talks about a race through several South American countries and climate zones.
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/ 18 December 2007
The 2007 Formula One season went down as one of the most thrilling to date, with a three-way race for the title that ended with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen edging McLaren teammates Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the tightest race for the drivers’ championship in 21 years.
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/ 27 November 2007
A stadium collapse that killed seven people highlighted the crumbling state of Brazil’s soccer arenas less than a month after the country was chosen to host the 2014 World Cup, architects said on Monday. The victims fell 15m through a 3m wide hole that opened in the concrete stands of the Fonte Nova stadium in Salvador.
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/ 27 November 2007
People around the world are preparing for floods, droughts and other natural disasters in ways largely dictated by wealth and poverty as evidence of climate change mounts, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. Even if countries took steps to cut greenhouse gases, temperatures would continue to rise until 2050 due to accumulated carbon emissions.
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/ 26 November 2007
At least eight people were killed in Brazil when a section of the stand at a football stadium collapsed as fans were celebrating minutes after a match ended. Dozens of people were also injured, some of them seriously, in the accident late on Sunday in Salvador, the capital of the north-western state of Bahia, media reports said, citing authorities.
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/ 25 November 2007
A Brazilian psychic who set officials in Indonesia scrambling after he predicted a huge quake would hit Sumatra island next month reaffirmed on Wednesday that the disaster is indeed coming. "The danger of this earthquake exists, there is no doubt," Jucelino Nobrega da Luz (45) said by telephone from his home in south-east Brazil.