Ahead of carnival season comes V&A’s Friday Late: Hot Brazil on 27th January, celebrating the energy and ingenuity of Brazil through art, music, dance and plenty more from the likes of Paraíso School of Samba, Braziliality and João Brasil.
Each visitor can take home a specially-commissioned artwork by Brazilian artist Bruno 9Li (whose work is pictured above) and take part in a samba flash mob in the Grand Entrance, with dancers from the Paraíso School of Samba. London-based collective Braziliality will produce a telenovela soap opera entitled
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Party-loving Prince Harry is to visit Rio as part of his first solo royal tour in March.

The 27-year-old is also planning to stay on in Brazil for a three day holiday afterwards, giving him plenty of time admire the sights on Ipanema Beach.

The third-in-line-to-the-throne is undertaking the 10-day trip on behalf of the Queen as part of his grandmother’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

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ven in a city that has embraced so many waves of Latinos that it is jokingly referred to as the only South American capital in North America, no one group has been as courted and pampered as the Brazilians.

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Brazil, with its booming economy, a strong currency and a fast-growing middle class, also has the world’s most carefree population in regards to the global financial crisis that hit us all in 2008, but, for some reason, seems to have gone unnoticed in the South American nation. Despite International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde‘s warning that “Latin America isn’t immune to the European debt crisis and should prepare to confront possible turbulence,” Brazilians are not worried. At all.

The proof of that is that while
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Over the past 10 years, Brazil has been through deep transformations.

Their origins can be traced to the country’s modernization in the 1990s, as a result of a successful privatisation program, of the stabilisation of the economy and the strengthening of the banking system.

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Tensions between Hawaiian surfers and energetic newcomers from South America have reached boiling point on Oahu’s famous beaches.


You only have to watch Edison de Paula carve his way across one of the spectacular waves that wallop Oahu’s north shore each winter to realise that surfing isn’t exactly what you might call a laid-back sport. When the swells hit 20 or 30 feet, one wrong move can send you straight to a watery grave. At Pipeline, a break famous for its perfect “tubes,” there have
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An amateur cameraman has captured the insane moment a drunk zoo visitor jumped into a monkey enclosure to ‘play with them’, and ended up with severe bite marks after the animals attacked.

Joao Leite Dos Santos, a mechanic in Sao Paulo, Brazil, admitted that he had been drinking alcohol when he went to the Sorocaba Zoo on Sunday.

Thinking that it would be fun to join the zoo’s colony of spider monkeys, he climbed over a fence and swam across a dividing pool to get closer to the animals, as amused tourists looked on.

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As Brazil’s economy keeps growing, a record number of Brazilians are heading to the country’s tropical beaches on package holidays. But not everyone welcomes the invasion of tourists or what that change symbolises: the rising affluence and aspirations of Brazil’s expanding middle class.

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A pioneering cinema is transforming a once-notorious favela. Geoffrey Macnab visits Rio de Janeiro’s new star attraction

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/drug-gangs-swap-pistols-and-murder-for-popcorn-and-movies-2371628.html

‘Damn it! We’re going to crash. It can’t be true,’ says one of the pilots.

‘But, what’s happening?’ another replies, seconds before the Airbus 330 plunged into the water, killing everyone on board including five Britons and three Irish doctors.

Until now only selected excerpts from the conversation between David Robert, 37, Pierre-Cedric Bonin, 32, and Marc Dubois, 58, the captain of the plane, have been released.

Air accident investigators kept the rest hidden, saying they did not want to
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