Search Results

Results 1 - 10

Brazil beat Oman 2-0 in friendly

Sports | Soccer
2009-11-18

AN opportunistic strike from Villareal hitman Nilmar and a Hassan Mudhaffar own goal earned Brazil a 2-0 victory over Oman at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex yesterday. Nilmar's poaching instincts gave Brazil...

Brazil blackout blamed on storm, grid in spotlight

World
2009-11-12

BRAZIL'S government blamed a severe storm for the power outage that put the country's economic heartland in the dark for more than five hours and raised doubts about the reliability of its energy grid. Tuesday...

Brazil, Paraguay plunged into darkness after power failure

World
2009-11-12

BRAZIL emerged yesterday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours, prompting concern from residents about another "black eye" for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. ...

Blackouts darken Brazil's 2 largest cities

World
2009-11-11

A MASSIVE power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation for more than two hours late yesterday, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric...

Outage leaves millions without power in Brazil

World
2009-11-11

A major electricity outage left tens of millions of people in Brazil's two largest cities of Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro without power last night. The national electricity grid operator said 17,000 megawatts...

Uni does U-turn on mini-dress expulsion

World
2009-11-11

A WOMAN expelled from a Brazilian college for wearing a mini-dress that caused a near riot and made her an Internet sensation has been allowed to return to her studies. Bandeirante University reversed its decision...

Short-skirt Brazilian student expelled

World
2009-11-10

IN Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university pupil has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus. The Universidade Bandeirante...

Back from the 'death' at his own funeral

World
2009-11-6

A BRAZILIAN bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral. Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a Sunday night...

Olympic city plunged into 'bloody chaos'

World
2009-10-19

BRAZILIAN officials are insisting security won't be a problem for the 2016 Olympics despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into a day of bloody chaos just two weeks after it was picked to host the...

Argentina qualify for World Cup

Sports | Soccer
2009-10-15

ARGENTINA ended an embarrassing campaign by qualifying for the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay yesterday. Argentina would have missed its first World Cup since 1970 if it had lost at packed Centenario Stadium. ...