
Brasilia: Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's first female president on Saturday after promising to build on an unprecedented run of economic success achieved by her popular predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The 63-year-old former Marxist guerrilla and her Vice-President Michel Temer took the oath of office at the National Congress before hundreds of government officials and world leaders, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyco...

07:39 AM, Jan 02, 2011