Arlington, Texas: First-half goals by Giovani dos Santos and Javier Hernandez gave Mexico a 2-0 win over Brazil in a friendly in Dallas on Sunday. It was the second straight game in which Mexico's top two forwards each scored, indicating the Mexican attack is in top form at the right time. "This game served us well in our plans for qualifying," Mexico coach Jose Manuel de la Torre said through...
09:17 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Hamburg, Germany: Hulk scored two goals in the first half to help Brazil beat Denmark 3-1 on Saturday at the start of a four-match tour ahead of the London Olympics. Hulk scored in the eighth and 40th minutes, either side of an own goal by Niki Zimling, as a young but polished Brazil side brushed off a team headed to next month's European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. Nicklas Bendtner...
10:16 AM, May 27, 2012
Sao Paulo: A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes. Trip Airlines said in a statement on Tuesday that the pilot rejected the man before takeoff as he made loud, sexist comments upon learning the pilot was a woman. The jet continued on to the state of Goias after a one-hour delay. The...
02:53 PM, May 23, 2012
Sao Paulo: For 15 years, a Brazilian family used a device they found buried on their farm as a doorstop without suspecting that it could be a bomb, media reports said on Monday. The discovery occurred last Saturday after security forces had to remove another explosive device found on a construction site in the city of Campo Grande. A 10-year-old girl who was watching the operation noticed that the device...
11:07 AM, May 01, 2012
Washington: The International Monetary Fund's bid to win a big boost in funding to handle the eurozone debt crisis hit a speed bump on Thursday when Brazil demanded more power at the IMF for emerging economies as a condition for lending it extra cash. Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega laid out the terms for a deal after a meeting with fellow BRICS nations Russia, India, China and South Africa. "We...
12:37 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Sao Paulo: Two of the three suspects arrested for murdering, dismembering and eating their victims in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco made a home movie of their crimes, including the cannibalism scenes, media reports said. Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, a 51-year-old actor, writer, musician and martial arts instructor, and his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires da Silveira, 50, made a 53-minute home movie titled "Espirito". The couple is under...
04:21 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Rio De Janeiro: Three people accused of killing at least three women in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco said that they ate some of their victims' flesh and also used it to make a dish they sold to their neighbours, police said on Friday. The accused, a man and two women, were arrested on Wednesday in Garanhuns, 234 km from Recife, the state capital, and said that they belonged...
05:40 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: India and Brazil have agreed to set up six working groups in sectors like agro-processing, mining, infrastructure and pharmaceuticals aimed at increasing collaboration in these areas and strengthen economic ties. "Our governments have agreed to set up six working groups on agro processing, services and IT, mining, infrastructure, engineering and pharmaceuticals," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said. He was speaking at the Brazil-India Business Session jointly organised...
04:51 AM, Mar 31, 2012
The trade ministers of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met in Delhi to discuss ways to strengthen economic ties. But can they take on the Western economic powers? ...
11:34 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The five-nation BRICS group of emerging economies, representing almost 43 per cent of the world's population, on Thursday welcomed the candidatures of developing countries for the World Bank presidency, demanding that the selection should be through an "open and merit-based process". "We welcome the candidatures from developing world for the position of the president of the World Bank. We reiterate that the heads of IMF and World Bank...
02:49 AM, Mar 30, 2012
The five countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, together account for a quarter of the world's GDP and almost half of the world's population. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: On the first day of the BRICS Summit, China regretted that Tibetans have created trouble for India and also confirmed that the border dispute will be discussed by the Chinese President Hu Jintao with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. China was also appreciative of the effective concrete measures taken by the Indian government to avoid disturbances. Meanwhile, China also preached spirituality to the Dalai Lama. "Dalai Lama is...
05:04 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: In an initiative to promote trade in local currencies, the BRICS nations on Thursday signed two agreements to provide line of credit to business community and decided to examine the possibility of setting up a development bank on lines of multilateral lending agencies. The agreements were signed by officials of five countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- at the fourth BRICS summit in New...
02:07 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that policy coordination is a must to revive economic growth. Addressing the fourth BRICS Summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister also said that the grouping has agreed to examine in "greater detail" a proposal to set up a South-South Development bank, funded and managed by BRICS and other developing countries. He also urged member countries to speak in one voice...
01:03 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: India is all set to play host to world leaders that include Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, South African President Jacob Zuma and Chinese Premier Hu Jintao, at the fourth BRICS summit on Thursday. Trade and political issues are expected to be the primary talking points at the summit. It was an idea initiated by Russia in 2006, BRICS now accounts to $ 230 billion...
06:21 AM, Mar 29, 2012
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