Le Bourget (France): French air accident investigators say a combination of mistakes by inadequately trained pilots and faulty equipment caused an Air France jet to plunge into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. The BEA air accident investigation agency is recommending better training for pilots and stricter plane certification rules as a result of its three-year probe into the crash of Flight 447. The report lists a...
07:15 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Actor Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila, a Brazilian model, are expecting their third child, he said on his Twitter page. The couple were married last month at their home in Austin, Texas, after dating for several years. "Happy birthday America, more good news, Camila and I are expecting our 3rd child," McConaughey wrote on Twitter. McConaughey, 42, plays the manager of a male strip club in the movie Magic...
02:19 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Sao Paulo: Brazil's 1970 World Cup winners contained more gifted individuals than Spain's current all-conquering national side, the Brazilian side's greatest player Pele said on Wednesday. Asked who would win a showdown between the two teams, Pele flashed a big smile and said: "If I was playing, we'd win, no doubt about it." "As long as they are comparing teams with the 1970s, it is because the 1970s team is...
10:03 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Asuncion: Paraguay's new president said on Saturday he would ask his impeached predecessor to help quell regional tensions after Argentina withdrew its ambassador in protest at what it said was a coup and Brazil recalled its top diplomat for consultations. Paraguay's South American neighbours and key trading partners are taking it to task for the unprecedented speed with which its opposition-dominated Congress removed President Fernando Lugo on Friday, saying he...
10:32 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Manchester City is reportedly preparing a 20 million euro offer for highly rated Brazilian centre-back Dede. Representatives of the reigning English Premier League champions will visit Rio this week to make an official offer to Dede's club Vasco de Gama, Xinhua reported on Saturday. It is understood that City are keen to benefit from Vasco's precarious financial position. The Brazilian club has struggled to pay player salaries...
04:45 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Los Cabos: India and four other countries of the five-nation BRICS bloc on Tuesday gave a big boost to IMF's $ 430 billion bailout fund for the debt-wracked 17 nation Eurozone pledging to contribute $ 75 billion with New Delhi's contribution being $ 10 billion. The pledge was made at an informal meeting of BRICS Leaders presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of the opening of the seventh G20...
11:32 AM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: Harmeet Desai defeated Belgian Cedric Nuytin 4-2 to win the gold medal in the Under-21 men's final of the Brazil Open Table Tennis in Santos, becoming the first Indian to achieve such a feat. Desai triumphed 11-3 6-11 11-6 11-9 5-11 11-6. Earlier, the fourth seed had beaten compatriot Soumyajit Ghosh 10-12 11-8 6-11 11-1 11-4 in the semi-final to earn a meeting with Nuytin. Desai said that...
10:55 AM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday voiced concern that continuing problems in the eurozone will further dampen global markets and adversely impact India's own economic growth. Singh also said that the need to revive global growth should be an issue of immediate concern which must be addressed by world leaders. He made these remarks prior to his departure for Mexico and Brazil to attend the seventh summit of...
11:16 AM, Jun 16, 2012
Paris: AC Milan has confirmed the club is in negotiations for the sale of star Brazilian defender Thiago Silva. The Rossoneri's vice-president Adriano Galliani met with Paris Saint-Germain officials in the French capital on Tuesday where he received a 50-million euro offer for the centre-back, Xinhua reported. "There has been no agreement yet. We need to take our time but we will know shortly," Galliano said. Silva's agent Paulo Fernando...
02:02 PM, Jun 13, 2012
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
