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  • Nicole Scherzinger dons Rio Ferdinands cap while shopping

    Nicole Scherzinger was spotted wearing a cap designed by Man U's Rio Ferdinand's No. 5 clothing range at Mayfair. The 'X-Factor' judge, 34, teamed up her designer hat with a floral bomber jacket and grey slogan T-shirt, the Sun reported. The pop star, who is dating F1 star Lewis Hamilton, showed off her long pins in a pair of tight fitting jeans with Nike trainers on her feet. She also ...

  • Bolivia Venezuela collaborate in search for oil

    Petroandina, a 60/40 joint venture of Bolivian state oil company YPFB and Venezuelan counterpart PDVSA, will invest an additional $35 million this year in a search for oil and gas in La Paz province. That investment will bring to $151 million the total amount devoted to the Lliquimuni project since the beginning of 2011, YPFB said. Lliquimuni, located in northern La Paz province, may hold as ...

  • Brazil Protests Proceed as Smaller Cities Join

    SAO PAULO/FORTALEZA Protesters blocked roads in Sao Paulo and marched toward a stadium hosting a major international soccer game in Brazil's northeast on Wednesday in a growing wave of nationwide demonstrations against poor public services, inflation and other woes in Latin America's biggest country. After more than a week, the biggest series of protests to sweep Brazil in more than two ...

  • Protesters In Brazil Claim Victory Fare Hikes Rescinded

    Two cities in Brazil have canceled bus and subway fare hikes after massive demonstrations. Anger over poor public services and government spending on sports arenas brought thousands of protesters into the ...

  • Brazils perfect storm of discontent

    on their land and livelihoods, while the urban poor have resisted rampant property speculation. These are the ones who have not benefited from Brazil's rapid growth in recent years; they are victims of what we might term quantitative ...

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The Grifters

grift: (v) to engage in swindling or cheating; to obtain by grifting -- The American Heritage College Dictionary Stephen Frears' "The Grifters" is almost too cynical and mean-spirited for its own good. In its attempt to expose the gritty underbelly of the con game, it makes itself into something like "The Sting" with a hard-edged existential bite to it. All the characters are swindlers, a ... ...

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  • Pique enjoying Brazilian culture

    Spain defender Gerard Pique is relishing the chance to experience life away from football while in Brazil at the FIFA Confederations Cup. The Barcelona star, who played in the FIFA World Cup winners' 2-1 opening victory over Uruguay on Sunday, was speaking after visiting children at the Football for Hope Project in Rio de Janeiro. Pique has enjoyed great success in both domestic and ...

  • Cooperation or servility Visit of Mr. Joe Biden to Brazil

    Wladmir Coelho In 1947 President Eurico Dutra of Brazil sent to Congress the draft of the Statute of Oil. The presidential proposal was to buy oil and create domestic refineries. Oil exploration, itself, still released to international companies supported this decision in awe, on the "verge" of a war between the United States and the Soviet ...

  • Brazil protests for public transportation health education

    The biggest protest in the last two decades is being held in State capital and is spreading across the country. Tired of being misled by the economical, cultural and political elite of the country, Brazilians poured on to the streets to demand better public transportation, health and ...

  • Pele urges Brazilian demonstrators to forget protests

    Brazil Brazilian soccer great Pele has called on thousands of protesters demonstrating over poor quality public services and corruption to leave the streets and focus on football.Brazil is currently hosting the Confederations Cup, a tournament seen as a dry-run before it hosts the World Cup next year, which is expected to draw an estimated 600,000 visitors to the country."Let's ...

  • Colombia Bogota to Host XXII Latin American Congress of Ports

    The XXII Latin American Congress of Ports Colombia 2013, organized by the American Association of Port Authorities, will be held in the city of Bogot, June 25th to 28th, ...

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