– With 55 million votes and 12 points over her closest rival, the economist Dilma Rousseff, won the second round. Rousseff defeated Social Democrat José Serra on Sunday’s runoff elections, by 56 to 44 percent of the 99.35% votes counted at that moment. Thus, Rousseff replaces the charismatic President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in […]
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Rome will see a renewed “La Dolce Vita” by Fellini
An unedited version of this famous film will be screened at the Rome Film Festival. Fifty years after its release, ‘La Dolce Vita” by Federico Fellini will return to glory in Rome today with a screening of the restored film version, a project launched by the “Film Foundation” director, Martin Scorsese, the film returns to […]
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“Guilty is the seduced and the seducer” said Beckenbauer on FIFA corruption
– “Do not consider all people are the same. We must await the results of the investigations,” said the ‘Kaiser’, today told the popular daily Bild. The honorary president of Bayern Munich and a member of FIFA’s executive committee, was responding to the question of how corrupt the organization is, following the suspension of two […]
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U.S. economic growth accelerated in the third quarter reaching 2%
– According to the US Department of Commerce, economic growth showed a three point increase compared to the previous quarter. The report shows that consumer spending, which in the U.S. is more than two-thirds of the gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a rate of 2.6 percent between July and September, the fastest since 2006. […]
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Four Loko, a controversial energy drink is getting banned
– The Loko Four energy drink is known as ‘blackout in a can’ or ‘liquid cocaine’. ‘Four Loko’, a mixture of alcohol and caffeine, has put universities and medical centers in the United States on alert, and has left several teenagers hospitalized. “It’s a dangerous mix, doctors say, because caffeine hides the effects of alcohol, […]
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Caroline Wozniacki says she’ll finish 2010 as number one
– Danish tennis player defeated Francesca Schiavone on Thursday 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the Masters at Doha. Wozniacki, the first Danish tennis player to become a number one, needed two wins at the tournament that delivers 4.55 million U.S. dollars and closes the season in the capital of Qatar, to ensure that Russia’s Vera Zvonareva […]
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Mexico City, an overwhelming city that commands respect
– The Federal District in Mexico, one of the world’s largest cities in the world, captivates with streets that remind you of Europe, fine dining and plenty of national pride. The respect it generates when you arrive for the first time, is in part due to the 22 million people living in the metropolitan area, […]
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China says it has the world’s fastest computer
A computer capable of calculating 2,500 trillion operations per second (2.5 petaflops per second) was built in China. This would exceed the 1.75 petaflops per second that held the prior first place, the Jaguar Cray in U.S.A., stated the official Chinese news agency Xinhua. The device, developed by Chinese engineers, has been named the ‘Tianhe-1’ […]
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