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| SAO PAULO – The winner of the Miss Best Butt Brazil 2011 has been raising eyebrows the world over. Now you can see all fifteen of the finalists right here! And, if you pay attention, you can even learn the names of 15 Brazilian states. Here they are:
Rosana Freitas (Ceará) (photo: Folha de Sao Paulo)
| RIO DE JANEIRO – The Brazilian magazine Epoca this week published a previously unseen image of the future president being interrogated at the Military Court of Rio. The black and white photo, taken in November 1970, shows a 22-year-old Dilma Rousseff being questioned about her participation in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship.
Dilma Rousseff at Military Court of Justice 1970 (photo: Revista Epoca)
| RIO DE JANEIRO – Early Saturday morning, Adriana Oliveira, on trial for masterminding the killing of her lottery-winner husband, was found not guilty. The jury's verdict, which stunned those present in the courtroom, clears the way for the young blond widow to inherit half of her late husband's estate—now estimated to be worth over R$100 million reals (about $56 million USD).
Adriana Oliveira (photo: terra.com.br)
| SAO PAULO – Rosana Ferreira, Miss Best Butt Brazil 2011, signed a deal on Friday afternoon to pose nude for the magazine “Sexy.” The 25-year-old will grace the cover of the next issue, which hits newsstands on Christmas day.
Rosana Ferreira “Miss Best Butt Brazil” (photo: Folha de Sao Paulo)
| CAMPO GRANDE, Mato Grosso do Sul – An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday carrying 393 kg (867 lbs) of marijuana in Amambai, 342 km (213 miles) from the capital. Federal Police (PF) made the arrest late last night as part of Operation Sentinel, which fights crime along Brazil's international borders.
393 Kilos of Marijuana (photo: G1/PF)
| SAO PAULO – An Englishman was arrested on Thursday afternoon at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo trying to board a flight with cocaine hidden in his digestive tract. Federal Police (PF) detained the man in the departure lounge as he was waiting to board a flight to Rio de Janeiro.
Pure Cocaine in Digestive Tract (photo: G1 Sao Paulo)
| CARACAS – On Friday, in a show of solidarity with Hugo Chavez, President Rousseff defended Venezuelan partnership in the construction of a major refinery in Pernambuco. In her first official visit to Venezuela, Dilma was received by a Venezuelan leader ailing from cancer treatments in Cuba, and who has been unable to raise the bank loans necessary for his country's participation in the Abreu e Lima refinery project in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Dilma and Hugo (photo: terra.com.br)
| SAO PAULO – Rosana Ferreira, 25, was announced the winner of the Best Butt in Brazil contest, late Wednesday night at a nightclub in Sao Paulo. The blond bombshell, representing the state of Ceara, told G1 Ceara that she is still getting used to the fame that comes with the title “most beautiful bottom in Brazil.”
Rosana Ferreira (photo: G1 Ceara)
| RIO DE JANEIRO – State public security officials in Rio announced today calibration testing on the city's new ShotSpotter gunshot detection and analysis system. The system is the same used by the FBI and many other law enforcement agencies in the United States and around the world to react quickly and accurately to arms fire.
Colonel George Freitas de Souza (photo: G1 Rio)
| BRASILIA – Data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) show that life expectancy at birth in Brazil reached 73.5 years in 2010. The mortality tables were published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday.
Brazilians Living Longer (photo: beltina.org)
