Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Botero, Brazilian works drive record art sale (Reuters)
• Brazil's Rousseff backs aide in scandal (Reuters)
• France to reveal more on Atlantic airliner crash (Reuters)
• Lagarde plans IMF charm trip to woo China, Brazil (AFP)
• Sarkozy backs Lagarde for IMF, China urges open race (Reuters)
• A Dark Day for Brazil's Amazon Jungle (OneWorld.net)
• Mexico pushes Carstens for IMF; Brazil reacts coolly (Reuters)

Botero, Brazilian works drive record art sale (Reuters) Posted: 26 May 2011 01:12 PM PDT Reuters - Strong demand for Brazilian abstract art and works by Colombia's Fernando Botero propelled Sotheby's to its best-selling auction of Latin American art with more than $21.6 million in sales.

Brazil's Rousseff backs aide in scandal (Reuters) Posted: 26 May 2011 10:56 AM PDT Reuters - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff defended her embattled chief of staff on Thursday, saying he would fully explain himself in a scandal over his alleged lobbying activities.

France to reveal more on Atlantic airliner crash (Reuters) Posted: 26 May 2011 10:48 AM PDT Reuters - French crash investigators are preparing to set out in detail what happened just before an Air France airliner flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 on board.

Lagarde plans IMF charm trip to woo China, Brazil (AFP) Posted: 26 May 2011 10:03 AM PDT AFP - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is planning a charm offensive to convince emerging economic powers like China and Brazil that another European should head the IMF, sources said Thursday.

Sarkozy backs Lagarde for IMF, China urges open race (Reuters) Posted: 26 May 2011 10:55 AM PDT Reuters - Beijing dug its heels in against Western domination of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday as French frontrunner Christine Lagarde prepared to build on her headstart in the race for the top IMF job.

A Dark Day for Brazil's Amazon Jungle (OneWorld.net) Posted: 26 May 2011 04:11 AM PDT OneWorld.net - RIO DE JANEIRO, May 25 (IPS) - The same day that the lower house of the Brazilian Congress approved a reform of the forestry code that would make it easier to clear land in the Amazon jungle for agriculture, a husband and wife team of activists who spent years fighting illegal deforestation in the rainforest were murdered.

Mexico pushes Carstens for IMF; Brazil reacts coolly (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - The race to pick a new leader for the IMF formally launched on Monday as Mexico sought support for its central bank governor and Brazil said more time was needed to make a choice.

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