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The Line 4-Yellow of the São Paulo Metro now has a feature that will make life easier for those who use public transport in Sao Paulo. Before boarding, the passengers will be informed about which cars are more free than others. Simply view the monitor that displays the train design administered by a private company. Each wagon exhibits an occupancy level with some colored bars. The idea is to enable users of the trains can have more comfort during travel. According to the administration of 4-Yellow Line, was necessary three years to develop the tool. 

In the last Sunday (11 September), the inhabitant of Valdete Groff Azevedo received the news that outlaws literally led to his family home in the central area of ​​Cidreira, in the south region of Brazil. An occurrence was registered on Tuesday (13) at the local police station. The delegate Alexandre Souza is already investigating the unusual case and some suspects have already been identified. The surprise of the police to record the occurrence was that it was the theft of an entire house. Valdete received a call from a neighbor, when she was on the beach and he reported on the arrival of some bricklayers on site. She was surprised because they were not doing works, but she didn't care with the fact. "I only believed when I saw personally. I was so sad as surprise. At what level the crime arrived. I've never seen it. It's unbelievable", reported Valdete. The house before the robbery According to the neighbor of the family, two men arrived a...

The Brazilian publishing Globe Books announced the launch of a collection of albums in hardcover of the Tintin character, with the title The Adventures of Tintin. The character was created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé in 1929. The comic will be released as originally published in the 1930s, as a facsimile version of the series - these volumes are in black and white. Remember that, over the decades, Hergé redrew and modified several of his stories, is due to adapt to the new times or to correct some inconsistencies. The first titles that still arrive in this month to bookstores are Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in America and the Cigars of the Pharaoh, all in format 21 x 28 cm and priced at BRL 59.90. These albums are already on pre-sale on Amazon Brazil with discounted. In Brazil, the news generated a great controversy due to the announcement of the original publication of the work Tintin in the Congo, because various social groups in the country rank the book as being r...

Man confesses to have poisoned the chocolate milk consumed by children On the afternoon of September 1, Adonis Joseph Negri, 61, confessed to having poisoned the chocolate milk that caused the death of a two year old boy in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso. The officer responsible for the case, Darimar Carneiro Aguiar said in an interview that Deuel de Rezende Soares, 27, stole the drink of his house and sold the product to the child's father, who ended up giving to the child unknowingly about the poisoning. According with the expertise reports, the death of the boy was caused by ingestion of rat poison and all other drives found in the family home were also contaminated. After thorough research, the experts ruled out a biological contamination by bacteria or fungus, due to the manufacturing process and identified external contamination through a hole compatible syringe needle on the upper side of each container. The expert examination detected the presence of carbofuran su...

Truck used to transport drugs Three soldiers from the Army were arrested in the early hours of last Sunday (28) by men of the São Paulo State Civil Police. They were caught carrying 3 tons of marijuana in a truck of the Armed Forces. The blatant occurred in the SP-101 highway, in the Campinas region. According to police the State Department of Prevention and Suppression of Drug Trafficking (Denarc), there was a exchange of fire with three Army soldiers who were in the truck. The soldiers Higor Abdala Costa Attene and Maykon Coutinho Coelho, members of the 20th Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Campo Grande, were arrested at the time. The soldier Simon Raul, of the same regiment, was wounded and managed to escape, but was captured later in the neighboor city of Limeira. The truck came from Mato Grosso do Sul and was being followed by a civilian car, which would also have participated in the shooting. Two other men were arrested. Drugs seized in the Brazilian army truck ...

An unusual scene daily draws the attention of drivers and pedestrians passing by Farrapos Avenue, corner with Cairú Street, since 23 August. Unemployed for 11 months, Delcimar Santos da Silva, 35, found a different way to look for a job. After ten interviews, more than 150 resumes sent and several "NO", he decided to go to the streets with a poster that expresses its interest in a job vacancy. - I never said not to work, always did everything they asked me - account while holding the placard in the pedestrian crossing, with the help of his son Gabriel da Silva, 13 years. Residents of the neighborhood Vera Cruz in Guaíba, he and his son they stay from noon to 15h in Farrapos Avenue. Then proceed to the corner of Ramiro Barcelos Street, where they remain until 17h. The honks and shouts of "Good luck!" are serving as support for both. In street, Delcimar makes clear: don't want nothing food or money, need a job. He is one of the 196,000 unemployed in ...

While Rio de Janeiro breathe the Olympic Games, it seems that not every resident of Rio has been taken by the spirit of the Olympics. One example was the Brazilian Juliana Lima, who gave a testimony in her account of Facebook and eventually became the target of criticism, jokes and compliments. According to the post of Juliana, a foreigner with a shirt printed with the US flag, approached her asking, in English, how to arrive at the Botafogo subway station. She  continued the dialogue in Portuguese and he asked if she couldn't speak English. Juliana replied that "dominated" the language, but the correct was speak in Portuguese, because they were in Rio de Janeiro. Quickly, Juliana's post became a phenomenon in Facebook (and, of course, in Twitter). The main criticism for the girl's reaction was the fact that English is usually the exhaust for any tourist anywhere in the world where there isn't known the local language. Even the Brazilians when vis...