Buenos dias, Buenos Aires
2010-09-05 10:10:24.0Wang RuBuenos dias, Buenos AiresBuenos Aires11004431Travel2@webnews/enpproperty--> | It's the colorful capital of Argentina and it lives up to its nickname, "Paris of the South".W...
Corinthians smash ten-man Goias 5-1
| September 5, 2010 | Corinthians maintained their pursuit of Fluminense in the Campeonato Brasileiro with a 5-1 hammering of bottom side Goias on Saturday. | The Sao Paulo club fell behind after five...
Agua; Charlatan
| Playhouse, Assembly Hall, both Edinburgh ‘Sultry sexual languor’: Pina Bausch's Agua at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Photograph: Murdo Macleod | Agua was created by Pina Bausch in 2001, following a ...
South African billionaire in bid to take control of Minerva group
| Nathan Kirsh's move on the property group, which owns major developments in the City, is causing waves with West Bank campaigners as well as shareholders Minerva development of St Botolph's in the C...
Deadly lure of the US leaves trail of tears across two continents
| Juliard and HermÃnio set out to smuggle themselves into a better life in the US. Three weeks later, the body of one, and the identity card of the other, were found among 72 blindfolded corpses in M...
Kashmiri star will finally get to the ball
| History hangs in the air in Kashmir, as thick and unshifting as the mist that twists itself around the hills, as the teenage Basharat Bashir demonstrates his skill with a football. | By any reckonin...
Agua, Playhouse, EdinburghAlonzo King Lines Ballet, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
| Pina Bausch's death last year shocked everybody, not least her company Tanztheater Wuppertal. | But she lives, through her company and work, where it's business as usual, touring round the world. (T...
TNTA to install temporary canopies
| Principal Correspondent | CHENNAI: Fans making their way to the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Nungambakkam for India's Davis Cup encounter with Brazil needn't worry about carrying sunscreen to the venue. T...
India, Mercosur countries to discuss expansion of agreement
| Special Correspondent | NEW DELHI: India will soon undertake negotiations to discuss the possibility of expanding an agreement on tariffs with South American bloc Mercosur countries in November. | "...
South African billionaire in bid to take control of Minerva group
| An emergency shareholder meeting at property developer Minerva this week will pit its biggest shareholder Nathan Kirsh against the company's management. Kirsh may not be well known in the UK, but th...
Agua; Charlatan
| Agua was created by Pina Bausch in 2001, following a residency in Brazil. It was one of a series of international co-productions undertaken by the German choreographer in the autumn of her career, e...
Deadly lure of the US leaves trail of tears across two continents
| Boston, on the east coast of the United States, was the destination when HermÃnio Cardoso dos Santos and his friend, Juliard Aires Fernandes, left their sleepy rural town in south-east Brazil on 3 ...
Joy of Six: Footballers who have overcome humble beginnings
| 1) Garrincha (Born 28 October 1933, died 20 January 1983) | In football, rags-to-riches stories are 10-a-penny. Consider the tale of one of the world's greatest ever players, Diego Armando Maradona....
Brazil economy defies predictions
| Sao Paulo: Brazil's economy grew 8.8 per cent in the second quarter, defying forecasts of a steep slowdown as booming investment and strong consumer demand helped it outshine struggling economies in...
Educational Gaps Limit Brazil's Reach
| CAETÉS, Brazil — When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president in early 2003, he emotionally declared that he had finally earned his “first diplom...
Qatar Offers New Technology and Aggressive Pitch in World Cup Bid
| The sidewalks and parks in Doha are empty in June, as residents head to the air-conditioned malls for relief from temperatures that soar to 118 degrees. Professional soccer players from the region f...
The sounds of Brazil - by way of Appalachia
| The revelation, says guitarist Clay Ross, boiled down to a single song. It was a baião - a style of folk music from northeastern Brazil - by one of the masters of the genre that drove home to this S...
