Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23 has shot dead 12 children before killing himself at his former primary school in Rio de Janeiro. A disturbed young Brazilian shouted “I’m going to kill you all.” while roamed the halls of the school on Thursday and killed 10 girls and two boys, lining them up against a wall [...]
Charles, the Prince of Wales met President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Planalto Palace in the Brazilian capital Brasilia and discussed a range of topics including the environment. Prince Charles,a long-term campaigner in the fight against climate change said that that tackling the environmental threat should have a higher priority than fighting poverty, [...]
A nine-year-old girl who had been pregnant with twins after allegedly being raped by her stepfather, underwent an abortion on Wednesday despite complaints from BRAZIL’s influential Catholic Church. The girl, who was not identified because she is a minor, was last week found to be four months’ pregnant after being taken to hospital suffering stomach [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she is pushing Brazil’s government to return an eight-year-old boy allegedly being held by Brazilian relatives although his US father wants custody. “I did raise it at the highest levels of the Brazilian government,” Clinton, told NBC television in an interview of the case of Sean Goldman. [...]
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, 31 and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, 28, tied the knot in a romantic ceremony at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California, on Thursday night with only close friends and family in attendance. The private ceremony was attended by immediate family, including Brady’s 1-year-old son, John, whose mother [...]
Rising Ecstasy use is drawing a new class of educated young people into the cross hairs of drug enforcement in Brazil,South America’s largest country. This new class of drug peddlers is a far cry from the heavily armed drug lords and their young, impoverished foot soldiers in the slums, where the Brazilian police send small [...]
Brazil, the biggest state buyer of condoms in the world, is to distribute 59 million free condoms during its famous Brazil Carnival later this month to combat the spread of AIDS, Brazil Health Minister, Jose Temporao told the press on Friday. The sheaths are to be handed out during the extravagant parades featuring bare-breasted models [...]
Brazil and over 64 countries joining together today to promote the Safer Internet Day this year with the themes of Safe social networking and the prevention of cyber-bullying. Held since 2004 by Insafe – a European network that coordinates Internet safety awareness, the Safer Internet Day is always held in February, aiming to promote the [...]
R&B singer Usher 30, canceled his Grammy plans due to his wife’s medical emergency in Brazil, According to american media Usher’s reps say Tameka Raymond is in a Brazilian hospital after “suffering complications from routine surgery.” She is in stable condition and Usher is with her at the hospital, according to the reps. No further [...]
Four people survived but 20 were missing and feared dead after a small Brazilian-made Bandeirante turboprop plane crashed into the Manacapuru river, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil’s Amazon jungle during bad weather on Saturday. The missing included four babies, Paulo Roberto Pereira, a spokesman for regional charter airline Manaus Aero Taxi, told [...]