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The mayor of Brazil’s largest city approved a Holocaust Remembrance Day beginning next year. Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab signed a measure Monday that sets Jan. 27 as a municipal day to honor Shoah victims. Sao Paulo Municipal Holocaust Remembrance Day will be held for the first time in 2010.
(AP:BRASILIA, Brazil) The Brazilian Senate has ratified Venezuela's status as a full member of the South American trade group Mercosur, leaving only Paraguay's approval pending.
The lady in the mermaid suit struggled to keep up with the dance troupe, but her companion in the tuxedo managed his leg kicks with...
PEETZ — Peetz Elementary is using technology to bring an author and school media specialist who lives thousands of miles away, in Maine, to their classroom.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Fleury SA , a Brazilian provider of medical services, is selling 630.2 million reais ($360 million) of shares in an initial public offering priced at the middle of the estimated range.
Dell has delayed the shutdown of a plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as it sees PC demand rising.
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The United States will face Iran, and Greece will take on Turkey in a pair of group games at the world basketball championship.
WEIRTON, W.Va. - Steel giant ArcelorMittal SA said Tuesday it will cut an unspecified number of jobs next year and stick with plans to use 70 percent of its capacity in the current quarter.
Press Release from IMAX Corporation LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron's Avatar will open in 178 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on December 18, 2009, simultaneously with the motion picture's premiere in conventional theatres.
Brazilian equities slipped Tuesday, with utility stocks lower following a wind-energy auction at which the selling price for energy was lower than anticipated.
Reeling Steelers lose DB Polamalu longer ... Player alleges attack by Florida coach ... Male cheerleader booted after fight ... Poblete gives birth to premature boy ... Sports news from United Press International.
Career advice is so ubiquitous and free on the Internet that it has virtually lost its value. Inexperienced "experts" regurgitate drivel and platitudes that can be found in myriad career books. Opportunistic Web sites go so far as to totally contradict their own message with nary a qualm. After all, it's all about getting more eyeballs and selling advertising. In today's job market, brazen ...
Alcoa has inaugurated the $1 billion expansion of the Alumar alumina refinery in Northern Brazil, where capacity more than doubled from 1.5 million to 3.6 million metric tons per year.
The U.N. estimates 40,500 tons of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere during the 12-day conference - 90 percent of it from flights.
(AP) — Steel giant ArcelorMittal SA said Tuesday it will cut an unspecified number of jobs next year and stick with plans to use 70 percent of its capacity in the current quarter. The company -- which has which has major steelmaking operations in East Chicago and Burns Harbor, Ind. -- -- ...
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