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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 ...

  • Rapes in Brazil Spur Class and Gender Debate

    A wave of rapes on public transportation in Rio de Janeiro has led to the creation of women-only cars on trains, but some women say not enough is being ...

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Hanna

Hanna

In Hanna, British director Joe Wright puts a compelling spin on the conventional action thriller by imbuing the violence with an underlying sense of sadness and pathos. Known primarily for his adaptations of literary romantic dramas such as Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement ... ...

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  • Soccer-Brazils Santos decide to sell Neymar - club

    Neymar to one of two unnamed soccer clubs, according to the club's official Twitter feed. Neymar will have the right to choose which proposal to take, Santos said. "In the face of the offers and the player's contract, the management committee of the club decided to sell the player," the statement said. "We await Neymar and his father at the Vila Belmiro stadium to ...

  • Brazil officials must register gay unions as marriages

    By The Associated Press Brazilian notaries public must register same-sex civil unions as marriages if the couple requests it, the country's National Council of Justice said Tuesday. The council that oversees the country's judiciary said in a statement that notaries public cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union into a marriage if that's what the pair ...

  • 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 ...

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