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  • Corinthians beat Santos to win Campeonato Paulista

    Corinthians won their 27th Campeonato Paulista title after a 1-1 draw in the second leg of the final against Santos. The result at the Vila Belmiro stadium Sunday gave the reigning FIFA Club World Cup champions a 3-2 aggregate victory, reports Xinhua. Cicero scored the opener for Santos just before the half-hour with a stunning left-foot volley before Danilo equalised two minutes later with a ...

  • Mexico aims to boost trade with Brazil

    Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade visited his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, with whom he agreed to promote a series of business meetings to boost bilateral trade. Meade told a press conference that, on the topic of trade, "right now that is Mexico's goal", but that at present there is no intention to negotiate free-trade agreements with Brazil. "There's a mutual ...

  • Brazil midfielder Paulinho denies transfer rumours

    Brazil international midfielder Paulinho has denied speculation that he is on the verge of a move to Europe. The 24-year-old Corinthians star is reportedly on the radar of Inter Milan, Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea, among other European clubs, reports Xinhua. Speaking after Corinthians' 3-2 aggregate victory over Santos in the final of the Campeonato Paulista Sunday, Paulinho said he would ...

  • Bangladeshis being trafficked to Brazil

    Police in Brazil have identified a gang specialising in trafficking Bangladeshi nationals into the country, a media report said. About 80 Bangladeshi workers have been lured with promises of earning up to $1,500 a month. But they ended up as slave labourers in order to pay their smugglers nearly $10,000, BBC reported citing the Agencia Brasil news agency. South America's biggest economy has ...

  • Early Spring 2013 Ushers in Yoga Retreats To Maui Bali and El Salvador

    The Travel Yogi, specialist in international yoga retreats and yoga adventures, announces late winter/early spring yoga programs in Bali, Maui and El Salvador. "We are gearing up for a banner 2013 season," says Jennifer Hoodevik, founder and director. "We are riding the wave of an industry experiencing tremendous growth and we are responding." According to July 2012 ...

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Bed of Roses

In order for a romance to work, whether it be a book or a film, it has to be rooted in reality. If the audience is expected to relate to a fairy tale, that fairy tale has to have threads of the real world running through it, or else it exists on an unreachable place. "Pretty Woman," which was basically a modern Cinderella story, was grounded in the harsh world of drugs and prostitution. "Untamed ... ...

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  • Argentine president to visit Brazil

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet on Friday her Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner for talks on enhanced bilateral cooperation, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday.The Brazil-Argentina Business Council created during Rousseff's visit to Argentina on Jan. 31 will meet for the first time in Brasilia on Friday, a statement released Wednesday by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, ...

  • Brazilian lovers balcony leap goes viral

    Video of a half-naked man climbing out of window in São Paulo as a couple argue on an adjacent balcony has attracted nearly a million views on YouTube since it was posted on ...

  • Brazilian killed in hot-air balloon crash in Turkey

    ISTANBUL | Mon May 20, 2013 4:42am EDT ISTANBUL May 20 (Reuters) - A hot-air balloon flying over Cappadocia, a tourist destination in central Turkey, crashed after colliding with another balloon on Monday, killing a Brazilian passenger and injuring 24 other people, the Anatolian news agency said. The accident occurred near the city of Nevsehir. Most of the injured were being treated ...

  • International Fund for Animal Welfare Penguin Stranding Mystery in Brazil Prompts Rescue Attempt

    Penguin Stranding Mystery in Brazil Prompts Rescue Attempt YARMOUTH PORT - August 7 - More than 1000 juvenile Magellanic penguins have washed-up either dead or dying along the Brazilian coast and as far north as Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, 3000 km north of Sao Paulo. IFAW (International Fund for Animal ...

  • South Africa Squad Named for Brazil 2014 Qualifiers

    Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund announced a 25-man squad to play in next month's 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifiers against the Central African Republic (CAR) and Ethiopia on Friday. The first of the two World Cup qualifiers against CAR in Yaounde, Cameroon will be played on Saturday, 8 June, at Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, with the second match against Ethiopia, taking place in Addis Ababa, set ...

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