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Thieves jumping of bus window after performing assault With less than a year to the start of the Olympics, the violence in Rio de Janeiro is growing at an alarming rate. A crime wave involving stabbing in the streets and squares, gave way to thefts on buses and subways. "It's the worst job that I've ever worked," fumed a driver. The buses is crowded in the first stopping points, although the number of paying persons doesn't reach five. With full bus, a group of about 10 young begin the assaults. When the buses arrive in the city center, the congestion further facilitates theft. From the middle to the back of the bus, they destroy all the seats and rear windshield. They pull the lever and push with your feet. The assaults committed by young people on buses is common during all days of the week. Motorists say that the problems in the bus lines are repeated constantly. Young people that go to the beach to commit assaults are called "sea air"...

Bending down to allow plenty of photos of their peachy behinds, the models were busy raising awareness of the start of the online voting stage of the competition. The public must decide which of the 27 women will be allowed to compete in the November final. Competition is fierce as only 15 gorgeous girls will be allowed to take part in the final. The winner of the competition will be awarded a much sought after cover shoot for a popular men's magazine, a significant cash prize and celebrity status. The Miss Butt's competition was first started five years ago and developed into a major glamour model competition in Brazil. Several spin-offs have been held as well as the world famous annual competition in Brazil.  In a recent news in the British Daily Mail newspaper about the Miss Butt, many English readers have posted misogynistic comments against the participants of the contest. This is not surprising since England is known for having the larg...

Ballistic missile or supersonic fighter? After the end of Soviet Union, several countries have begun to work means to defend themselves from external threats in a multi-polar world. Especially among developing countries, there was an arms race to intimidate their neighbors or even the US. Brazil has become one of them. After negotiating a multimillion-dollar purchase of Swedish fighters and lead a peacekeeping force in Haiti, now Brazil decided to venture in the ballistic missile sector. Common today became the inhabitants of São Paulo see trails of white smoke in the sky. This usually follows a pattern, looking like he was expelled by a supersonic plane. However, there are some facts to support this. Over the past four years, it is common to see at Guarulhos Airport, many aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force. These unload several tons of equipment in a confidentially way, isolating part of the airport only for military use. More traces of the Brazilian missile: ...

Many writers and film critics and literature say the art imitates life, but we can say otherwise. Customers and employees of the agency of the Bank of Brazil of the city Sítio do Conde, located in the state of Bahia, lived moments of panic at the end of the morning of June 2 after about 10 heavily armed men stormed the agency to commit a robbery. After the robbery, the bandits exchanged fire with the military police and fled taking hostages as a shield. In an image disseminated on the Internet, two of the victims appears tied to the windshield of the vehicle used by criminals like the the scene from the movie Mad Max - The Fury Road where the character Max is placed in front of a vehicle and used as a blood bag and especially as a human shield. The group fled towards the state of Sergipe and released the victims in the city of Jandaíra. No information about the amount stolen by the gang.

Teachers: street protests and empty classrooms Two months ago the teachers of public schools of São Paulo stopped their activities claiming salary increase and career plan. After several negotiations between the teachers' sindicate and the Secretary of Education, both sides reached a consensus and signed an agreement on the salary increase and changes in the hiring regime and tenders for years to come. However, most teachers didn't joined the agreement. The vast majority of these professionals are members of political movements of left and are making opposition to the party that currently governs São Paulo. Ie, they are using the strike as a political weapon to damage the image of the State government and are ditching the commitment to education of young people. Currently they make riots every Friday on Avenida Paulista, disrupting traffic in the region and preventing the passage of pedestrians on the streets. Since the beginning of the strike, hundreds of th...

Students use helmet for self-protection An unusual scene took place inside a classroom state school Wanda David Aguiar, in Roraima. Students used motorcycle helmets to protect themselves from ceiling fans. The case occurred on the night of March 19, few minutes after a ventilator almost reach students. No one is hurt. Helen Ruth, 20, is the 2nd year student of the school that is in the west zone of Boa Vista city, she told the "Brazil Unknown" that friends decided to wear helmets' by not withstand more live with the risk of injury inside the classroom'. Another student said that besides the precariousness of ceiling fans, the device of air conditioning installed in the classrooms do not work. On the night of Wednesday (20), students also staged a protest in front of the school. They questioned the reforms made at school and the lack of staff to clean the institution. Because of the protest, the school has run classes on the night shift. "Bes...

X-ray device out of use: harm to the population While waiting lists for examinations increase every day in São Paulo, two large hospitals are keeping expensive CT scanners and X-ray stored, without use. At Children's Hospital Darcy Vargas, a high-tech X-ray equipment is stored in the hospital for almost two years, without even having been withdrawn of the box. The machine valued at BRL 1 million is exposed to temperature changes and technological depreciation. Without the possibility to realize an examination at her daughter, who had just operate the column, the unemployed press operator Cassiano Jose Pantaleon had to spend out of pocket to realize the examination in private hospitals. "If I hadn't the $75, my daughter couldn't to do the X-ray?" He says. In the Southern Regional Hospital, in São Paulo (SP), one scanner valued at BRL 1.5 million is boxed for three months. The tomography device is used in the diagnosis of neurological, cardiac di...