Joint US-South Korea drill delayed
| A US-South Korean naval exercise aimed at deterring North Korea has been postponed due to an approaching typhoon, according to local media. | The joint drill had been scheduled to start on...
Gunmen hijack ambulance for ride to Rio slum
| RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian authorities say criminals hijacked an ambulance and forced the driver to give them a ride to a slum in Rio de Janeiro before taking their patient to the hospital. | ...
Rio slum a new tourist attraction
0 0 | Felipe Dana / AP | President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves as he starts the tourist program at the Santa Marta slum. View Larger Image | (09-05) 04:00 PDT Rio De Janeiro -- | Tourists usually ...
Danish gallery exhibits Dylan paintings
| COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Denmark's National Gallery is displaying 40 acrylic paintings by Bob Dylan that have never before been shown to the public. | Curator Kasper Monrad said the paintings in Dylan's...
Educational Gaps Limit Brazil's Reach
| CAETÉS, Brazil -- When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president in early 2003, he emotionally declared that he had finally earned his "first diploma" by becoming pr...
Castroneves wins Kentucky IndyCar
| Helio Castroneves of Brazil celebrates after winning the Indy 300 at Kentuc... | Brazil's Helio Castroneves won the Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway Saturday, his fuel-conserving strategy paying off wi...
The hard education truth from the deep south
| While traveling through Georgia month I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and came across editorials by two conservative thinkers that could not get published in Chicago in either...
In flux: CIFO's emerging artists are in transition
| Every year, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) presents new work by recipients of its grants and commissions program, with this year's bumper crop of emerging and mid-career Latin American...
Brazil shows the way to renewable fuels: Subsidize innovation, then get out of the way
| SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Few economic ideas are more lauded and reviled than that of industrial policy. Proponents, such as those who studied the rise of the East Asian economies, swear by it. Opponents...
Buenos dias, Buenos Aires
2010-09-05 10:10:24.0Wang RuBuenos dias, Buenos AiresBuenos Aires11004431Travel2@webnews/enpproperty--> | It's the colorful capital of Argentina and it lives up to its nickname, "Paris of the South".W...
Corinthians smash ten-man Goias 5-1
| September 5, 2010 | Corinthians maintained their pursuit of Fluminense in the Campeonato Brasileiro with a 5-1 hammering of bottom side Goias on Saturday. | The Sao Paulo club fell behind after five...
Agua; Charlatan
| Playhouse, Assembly Hall, both Edinburgh ‘Sultry sexual languor’: Pina Bausch's Agua at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Photograph: Murdo Macleod | Agua was created by Pina Bausch in 2001, following a ...
South African billionaire in bid to take control of Minerva group
| Nathan Kirsh's move on the property group, which owns major developments in the City, is causing waves with West Bank campaigners as well as shareholders Minerva development of St Botolph's in the C...
Deadly lure of the US leaves trail of tears across two continents
| Juliard and HermÃnio set out to smuggle themselves into a better life in the US. Three weeks later, the body of one, and the identity card of the other, were found among 72 blindfolded corpses in M...
Kashmiri star will finally get to the ball
| History hangs in the air in Kashmir, as thick and unshifting as the mist that twists itself around the hills, as the teenage Basharat Bashir demonstrates his skill with a football. | By any reckonin...
Agua, Playhouse, EdinburghAlonzo King Lines Ballet, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
| Pina Bausch's death last year shocked everybody, not least her company Tanztheater Wuppertal. | But she lives, through her company and work, where it's business as usual, touring round the world. (T...
TNTA to install temporary canopies
| Principal Correspondent | CHENNAI: Fans making their way to the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Nungambakkam for India's Davis Cup encounter with Brazil needn't worry about carrying sunscreen to the venue. T...
