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/ 26 September 2005
The new champion in formula one wears blue and yellow, not red. He is young, not old. He has one title, not seven. Next year, Alonso’s blue and yellow Renault will wear the number one instead of Michael Schumacher’s red Ferrari, which has owned it for the past five years and two other times with Benetton.
Thieves spent three months tunneling under a busy city avenue in northeastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off one of the world’s biggest heists. The robbery netted 156-million reals (,8-million) from a vault at the Central Bank in the city of Fortaleza, 2 500km northeast of São Paulo.
A telephone card bearing an image of deposed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein was pulled off the Brazilian market by Telefonica after São Paulo prosecutors threatened the telephone company. The card, featuring a Hussein in the custody of soldiers, was issued by the company in June as part of its ”World History” series.