SAO PAULO (AP) — It wasn’t just a bad dream. Brazilians woke up Wednesday to dreadful headlines describing the shame and humiliation of their soccer team’s historic defeat of 7-1 to Germany in the World Cup’s semifinal. There were also reports of violence breaking out right after the game with many buses being torched in […]
“He just called me nigga!” says Obi. “Did you hear? He just called me nigga.” “He” is the White hot dog vendor who has, in…
I came to Brazil expecting to be the object of insatiable female lust. Everything I’d read about the country told me that there would be…
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Death by giant snakes, malarial mosquitoes or drug-addled, knife-wielding thieves: If the barrage of blood-soaked headlines in the British tabloids is to be believed, that’s what awaits soccer fans travelling to the most exotic of Brazil’s World Cup host cities, the Amazonian metropolis of Manaus. Despite Manaus’ far-flung location in the […]
A man was killed by a toilet bowl thrown from the stands at a soccer game in Brazil. The New York Daily News reports: Soccer riots in Brazil claimed the life of a man who was killed by a toilet bowl thrown from the stands at Arruda Stadium, the latest scene of fan violence that […]
*House Republicans attacked President Obama after word from the White House that his fiscal 2015 budget drops proposed cuts to Social Security benefits. *A sex activity app that monitors data from movement and audio levels using your phone’s microphone, has calculated the average sex duration for each state. *A 44yr old Florida woman and her mother were arrested after skipping […]
A Brazilian woman was walking her dog when a porcupine fell off a lamp post and landed on her head leaving her with 272 quills in her scalp. A surgeon was able to remove the quills with tweezers. She’s taking antibiotics to prevent infection. For more details. Click here.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilians were outraged when they learned their country was a top target of the U.S. National Security Agency’s overseas spying operation, with data from billions of calls and emails swept up in Washington’s top secret surveillance program. Yet when it comes to the cloak and dagger effort of catching philandering […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A late night outing turned into a six-hour-long nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transit van while her handcuffed French boyfriend looked on helplessly, in an incident that’s shocked this resort city as it gears up to host next year’s World Cup and […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — Prostitutes in one of Brazil’s biggest cities are beginning to sign up for free English classes ahead of this year’s Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup. Cida Vieira, president of the Association of Prostitutes in the city of Belo Horizonte, said Tuesday that 20 have already signed up for the courses […]
Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists. The Supreme Court voted 7-1 late Thursday to uphold a federal program that has provided scholarships to […]
