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  • Real Madrid sign Casemiro

    Spanish football club Real Madrid has exercised its option of signing Sao Paulo loanee Casemiro on a permanent deal. The 21-year-old joined the Spanish giants on loan in January and made his Liga debut in a 3-1 victory over Real Betis at the Santiago Bernabeu April 19, reports Xinhua. A series of impressive performances for Real Madrid Castilla in Spain's second tier convinced club president ...

  • Ferdinand happy to sign new contract with Man U

    Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has signed a one-year contract extension and expressed his delight over the deal on Twitter. He said that he is living his dream of working with the club for the next season. Ferdinand, whose contract was due to expire this summer, signed the deal to play under new United manager David Moyes, The Mirror reports. Ferdinand said he felt happy to continue ...

  • Mexican woman gets first transplant of ovaries in Latin America

    A Mexican woman received Latin America's first transplant of ovaries in a hospital in the western city of Guadalajara, the director of the Mexican Infertility Institute, Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba, announced. Ruvalcaba told EFE by telephone that the patient is a 32-year-old women who had developed cervical and uterine cancer that was detected and treated in France. "The ethics committee of the ...

  • Brazil to hold oil auction

    Brazil's first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government said Thursday. The government's National Council for Energy Policy authorized the change. Rights to develop blocks in the Libra field, which is estimated to hold between 8-12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, will be ...

  • Brazils Santos decide to sell Neymar - club

    RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Santos said it had agreed sell striker Neymar to one of two unnamed soccer clubs, according to the club's official Twitter ...

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Steven Soderbergh is a tough director to put your finger on. He exploded onto the scene in 1989 with the indie groundbreaker "sex, lies, and videotape," and his career since then has been a journey of stylistic experimentation across numerous genres. In 1998, he made a bold move toward the mainstream with the uniformly excellent "Out of Sight," in which he energized what could have been a routine ... ...

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  • Brazils Santos Decide to Sell Neymar-Club

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  • Bolivia Describes as Failure DEA Anti Drug Fight in LatAm

    La Paz, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian government described today as a failure the anti-drug fight of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Latin America. In a press conference, the minister of the government, Juan Ramon Quintana, accused that organization of being responsible for thousands of fatalities, and the increase of money laundering and weapon sales in the region. He said that ...

  • Brazil to auction off largest-ever oil find

    BRAZIL plans to sell the right to explore and develop its largest-ever oil discovery in October, auctioning an offshore petroleum prospect that is expected to produce about 12 billion barrels of oil over 35 years. The sale of the Libra prospect, which Brazil on Thursday said would be held a month earlier than expected, will be the first under new "production-sharing" rules that tighten ...

  • Brazil patient dies in ambulance fall

    AN elderly Brazilian man suffering from Alzheimer's disease has fallen from an ambulance and died. Joao Pinheiro health department head Graciele Gomes da Silva says 82-year-old Luis Jose Lima apparently opened the ambulance's back door, fell to the highway and was hit by an oncoming car that left the scene. Silva says only after the ambulance continued for 10 kilometres did the driver ...

  • Planemaker Embraer Sees American Closing Out US Regional Jet Cycle

    SAO PAULO -- Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker, expects just one more big regional jet order as a result of its current U.S. sales campaign, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Curado said in an interview, after the Brazilian planemaker clinched three of four major deals since December. "After the American Airlines competition, the game is over for a ...

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