Brazilian shantytown turns heads in Venice
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Italy's picturesque lagoon city of Venice is known for many things, including, at least for now, a Brazilian shantytown.
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As the international voting to name the new seven wonders of the world draws to a close, Brazilians are doing their part to see Rio's famous Christ statue on the list.
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Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient
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SAO PAULO -- As President Bush was flying to Brazil yesterday, thousands of protesters shouting, "Out Bush!" marched down this city's main drag, Avenida Paulista.
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The cradle of Romania's revolution has been transformed into an economic boomtown, discovers the BBC's Nick Thorpe.
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Hordes of revelers poured on to the streets of Brazilian cities in Carnival jamborees, led by the country's culture minister and musician Gilberto Gil in the northeastern city of Salvador.
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Wearing nuns' veils, condom-shaped hats and all kinds of silly headgear, Brazilians partied in the beer-slicked streets of Rio de Janeiro on Friday as its Carnival started in earnest.
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Maybe it's time for The Girl from Ipanema to step aside and make way for the girl from Sao Paulo.
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Sometimes it sounded like a rave, sometimes like the philharmonic, as innovators and traditionalists fought for the soul of tango at an annual festival in Buenos Aires.
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Music fans injured as a storm hits a Venice musical festival, bringing down heavy stage equipment.
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PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay  - The glitter is back at the Uruguayan peninsula long known as South America's summer playground for the rich and famous -- a Latin version of Monaco or the Hamptons of New York.
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The Beija Flor samba group won carnival champion for the third year in a row Wednesday for its parade celebrating the story of Indians, priests and pioneers in southern Brazil.
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Narco News pages are filled with reports on drug policy in Brazil, with a sizeable number of articles and commentaries on the advances made in the continent&#39;s largest city, SÃ£o Paulo, under the leadership of city anti-AIDS coordinator Fabio Mesquita and
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A growing number of Brazil's urban poor are seeing Pentecostalism as a way to rise above the scourge of gang violence.
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On a sunny Sunday morning when many  Brazilians are heading to the beach, the martial skirl of  bagpipes evoking the chilly Scottish Highlands pierces the air  of a Sao Paulo neighborhood.
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Venice's Fenice Opera House hosts its first performance since it was gutted by fire in 1996.
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Revelers wrapped up Brazil's wild carnival bash with the popular Gala Gay ball Tuesday night on Rio de Janeiro's streets, littered with feathers and sequins after five days of partying.