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Air France flight 447 plunged for three-and-a-half minutes before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board. The first evidence from the black box flight recorder says the Airbus lost speed and stalled while the captain was resting. Pierre-Cedric Bonin, flight 447's junior … [Read more...]
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has suspended the distribution and production of new sex education films for schools across Brazil. A government spokesman said President Rousseff had viewed the material personally and decided to suspend its distribution. "She didn't like what she saw," … [Read more...]
Data from Brazil's Space Research Institute shows that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has increased by almost six times, in a year. New satellite images show deforestation has increased from 103 sq km in March and April 2010 to 593 sq km in the same period of 2011. Most of … [Read more...]
Authorities in Argentina have arrested three former policemen in connection with the "flights of death" during military rule in the 1970's. The men are accused of being part of the crew when French nun Leonie Duquet and human rights activist Azucena Villaflor were thrown from a plane in 1977. … [Read more...]
Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from Air France flight 447 that crashed in off the coast of Brazil in 2009, killing all 228 people on board. The discovery of the voice recorder comes only a day after the recovery of the flight data recorder. Air France chief executive … [Read more...]
Train passengers in Argentina furious about delays to their journeys have snapped and set fire to three commuter trains near Buenos Aires. Firefighters and police were called in to deal with major disturbances at three railway stations. The trouble started during the Monday morning rush hour … [Read more...]
Searchers have retrieved one of the two black box flight recorders from the ocean floor, belonging to Air France flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, off the coast of Brazil. Last week the outer casing of the flight recorder was found, but not its memory pods. France's Bureau of … [Read more...]
Search teams at the 2009 Air France crash site of the coast of Brazil have discovered part of the flight recorder casing after weeks of searching. The 'black box' flight data recorder itself is still unaccounted for but searchers are confident it will be found. Air crash investigators admit … [Read more...]
Google has agreed to amend its Google map of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after after city officials said it gave too much prominence to favelas, which is the local word for shanty towns or slums. Antonio Pedro Figueira de Mello, the Special Secretary of Tourism, for Rio de Janeiro, calls the maps … [Read more...]
Landslides and floods have forced the southern Brazil state of Rio Grande do Sul to declare a state of emergency in seven cities over the weekend. A dozen peopleare confirmed dead with hundreds homeless. Authorities say more than 40,000 people are directly affected by the torrential rain. … [Read more...]
Protesters in Bolivia have blocked main roads and clashed with police, as nationwide demonstrations against the government enter their tenth day. The biggest clashes happened 45km south of Bolivia's main city, La Paz, with around 2,000 teachers using rocks to block the main road to the rest of … [Read more...]
Most of Brazil's airports being upgraded for the Football World Cup in 2014 will not be ready in time according to a new progress report. There are 13 terminals being upgraded. 10 of them are unlikely to be completed by June 2014, says the government-backed Institute for Applied Economic Research … [Read more...]
A 23 year old former pupil has opened fire at a school in Rio de Janeiro killing 11 people and dying himself. At least another 10 people are injured. It is unclear at this stage if the gunman has taken his own life or been shot by police. The Escola Municipal Tasso da Silveira school is for … [Read more...]
An Australian woman tourist on a backpacking holiday in Peru is recovering in hospital after she was shot by a cab driver who was taking her and her partner to the airport late last week. Elizabeth 'Lilly' Littlewood of Rankin Park, Newcastle, and her partner were heading to the airport to fly … [Read more...]
Peru has welcomed home hundreds of Inca artefacts that were taken to the United States nearly a century ago. The artefacts were taken from the citadel of Machu Picchu which was 're-discovered' by American explorer Hiram Bingham in 1912. Yale agreed to return the artefacts last year after a … [Read more...]
Coca-Cola has said it will invest $2bn in India over the next five years in a bid to increase its market share in the country. Part of the … [Read More...]
Sri Lanka has blocked five news websites because they committed character assassination and insulted people including key political leaders, officials … [Read More...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he is free of cancer after returning from Cuba for health checks following four cycles of … [Read More...]
A suspected gas explosion at a restaurant in central Rio de Janeiro has left three people dead and at least 13 injured, Brazilian officials say. … [Read More...]
A surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana, and 100 … [Read More...]
A tropical depression storm pounding Central America has triggered floods and landslides that have left at least 18 people dead, officials say. In … [Read More...]
Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain is trying hard to lose the … [Read More and View]
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