VATICAN CITY/LISBON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict created five new saints on Sunday, including Portugal's national hero Nuno Alvares Pereira, a medieval warrior-friar credited with securing Portugal's independence from Castile. The pope told pilgrims at ...
As part of the agreement with France's Renault and its Japanese partner Nissan, Portugal will also decree that one-fifth of all its public fleet vehicle purchases be zero-emission starting in 2011. Renault-Nissan will start deliveries to Portugal ...
LISBON (Reuters Life!) - The world's leading cork maker has launched a campaign against the increasing use of screw caps and plastic stoppers in wine bottles, which it says is a threat to Portugal's forests of cork oaks. Portugal's Amorim Corticeira ...
RIO DE JANEIRO Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build a new car plant in Brazil's Sao Paulo state worth more than $1-billion (U.S.), Brazilian business newspaper Valor Economico said on Thursday. Valor said Toyota's second car plant in Brazil should be ...
The holdings controlled by Eike Batista include a mine operated by MMX Mineração & Metálicos in Corumba, Brazil (Pedro Lobo/Bloomberg News ) "In mining, you go to some crazy place, you set up a camp, you start looking for water and energy and this way ...
Brazil's Carnival parades got off to a majestic start on Sunday night as dancers dressed as monarchs, courtiers and even roast pheasants at a royal feast shimmied their way through Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome. Beauty queens wearing little more than ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Space ships, galleons and castles on wheels clogged Rio de Janeiro's streets on Sunday as the city prepared for Carnival's climax. Teams of men pushed Carnival floats the size of buses up Presidente Vargas Avenue toward the ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur that roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80 million years ago. The herbivorous Futalognkosaurus ...
MACAE, Brazil Jose Costa moved to Brazil's oil boomtown of Macae two years ago hoping to find a job on a sparkling offshore rig but settled instead for work as a landlocked janitor and a shack as a home. Just a stone's throw away from new plush beach ...
MACAE, Brazil (Reuters) - Jose Costa moved to Brazil's oil boomtown of Macae two years ago hoping to find a job on a sparkling offshore rig but settled instead for work as a landlocked janitor and a shack as a home. Just a stone's throw away from new ...
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