2011年7月18日星期一

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Confusion surrounds Tevez deal (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:22 AM PDT

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said on Monday that the English Premier League club had agreed a deal to sell their Argentinian star Carlos Tevez, pictured on July 16, to Brazilian side Corinthians.(AFP/File/Evaristo Sa)AFP - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said on Monday that the English Premier League club had agreed a deal to sell their Argentinian star Carlos Tevez to Brazilian side Corinthians.


In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 09:00 PM PDT

In this June 27, 2011 photo, a man covers himself with a blanket as he walks through an area popularly known as 'Crackland' in downtown Sao Paulo. About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across their country. In Sao Paulo, the first place in Brazil to have a large consumer market for the drug beginning in the 1990s, police seizure of crack went from 595 kilos in 2006 to 1,636 kilos in 2009, according to federal police.  (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - In the dark before dawn, social workers advance slowly down a narrow road dividing two vast slums, entering a landscape of littered streets and broken-down shacks, where an open-air crack cocaine market does business among piles of rubble.


Brazil exit as Venezuela shock Chile at Copa (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 07:22 PM PDT

Paraguayan midfielder Marcelo Estigarribia celebrates after scoring during the penalty shoot-out against Brazil during a 2011 Copa America quarter-final football match held at the Ciudad de La Plata stadium in La Plata. Paraguay dumped holders Brazil out of the Copa America on Sunday, winning a quarter-final penalty shootout 2-0 after a poor match ended goalless after extra-time.(AFP/Antonio Scorza)AFP - Paraguay dumped holders Brazil out of the Copa America, winning a quarter-final penalty shootout 2-0 after a poor match ended goalless after extra-time.


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