Brazilian wins Miss Earth beauty pageant
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Priscilla Meirelles, a medical student from Brazil, was named Miss Earth 2004 Sunday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo). Winners of the Miss Earth beauty pageant, Miss Fire Yanina Gonzalez of Paraguay, Miss Earth Priscilla
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Science & environment: Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction
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Santos won the Brazilian championship for the second time in three years on Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Vasco da Gama after forward Robinho returned following the end of his mother&#39;s 40-day kidnap ordeal.
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Juan Pablo Montoya left Williams as a  winner in Brazil Sunday, even if he had hoped for greater  things before the season started.
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, was crowned Miss World 2004 at a glittering event held in China. Miss Dominican Republic Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodriguez was the first runner-up, and Miss USA Nancy Randall was third.
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In a retail market keen on the word ânatural,â exports of Brazilâs beauty products have been rising quickly in the last few years.
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A 20-year-old dancer from Japan was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday night, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.
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An outside challenger Tuesday won the coveted post of speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, handing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers Party their biggest political defeat since he took office in 2003.
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China chose its first Miss Artificial  Beauty on Saturday, giving the crown to a 22-year-old from the  northeastern city of Jilin who couldn't have done it without  the help of her plastic surgeon.
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Brazil has launched its first rocket into space, a feat that comes just 14 months after its space program was devastated by a deadly launch pad accident.
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Sao Paulo - The mother of Brazil&#39;s latest super star footballer, Robinho, was freed on Friday by gunmen who kidnapped her five weeks ago.
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The governor of Brazil's largest Amazon jungle state signed into law Tuesday legislation aimed at curbing global warming in an area bigger than France and Spain combined.
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Mia Hamm and the rest of the Fab Five of women&#39;s soccer from the United States had just enough left in their thirtysomething legs for one more title, beating Brazil 2-1 on Thursday in extra time to win the Olympic gold medal in their final
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A Brazilian judge revoked on Thursday her own injunction blocking the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Live Earth global series of concerts after organizers secured approval from the police and met security concerns.
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Robinho's second-half goal helps Brazil beat the Republic of Ireland in the friendly at Croke Park.
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Wardrobe malfunction or fashion statement? That's what Brazilians were left wondering Thursday, a day after top model Naomi Campbell paraded with her breasts bared at Fashion Rio - a weeklong event of fall/winter collections, which ends Friday.
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SANTOS, Brazil  - Kidnappers freed on Friday the  mother of Santos forward Robinho, one of Brazil's most talented  young players, 40 days after seizing her at gunpoint while she  was attending a barbecue.