Tag Archives: Brazil

Brazil is concerned about US snooping around it’s email communication, to counter the unethical US spying Brazil has announced a secure email that will help them protect their official communication. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States and other countries. ... Read More »

Brazil witnessed it’s biggest protest as an estimated one million people took to the the streets on Thursday. So why are people protesting in Brazil and why like everyone? Anti-government movement has been on the raise as people continue to be unsatisfied by the government measures in spite of the recent reversal of transport fare hikes that initially sparked the ... Read More »

A missing pet tortoise was found after 30-years locked in the family store room. Yes, it was found alive! Manuela, the pet tortoise of the Almeida family disappeared from her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982. The family failed to find her after a lengthy search and finally concluded that would have ran away as they left the ... Read More »

As fire was raging in the Brazilian nightclub that killed at lease 231 people, Michele Cardoso left a message on her Facebook. Michele Cardoso, a 20-year-old medical student who was partying in Santa Maria’s Kiss nightclub used Facebook to post her last message. At 3.20am, 50 minutes after the fire reportedly started, Michele used her phone to post a message ... Read More »

It’s difficult enough to fit 16 candles on a birthday cake, but trying squeezing 116 on one. But Besse Cooper, the world’s oldest person according to the Guinness World Records, chose to use numbers instead of actual candles when she celebrated her 116 th birthday Sunday. Guinness claims Cooper is one of only eight people who have reached 116. In ... Read More »

A French judge has filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France over a crash in 2009. All the 228 people on board were killed when the airline’s Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris came down in the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June that year. The preliminary charges pave the way for further investigation. The move comes a day ... Read More »

Zombies seems to be no more a horror movie idea. It seems to have gotten real in ants according to National Geographic. This whole Zombie nature of the ants seems to be caused by one particular type of fungus that simply takes over the ant’s brain. But it doesn’t start feeding over other ants or no other zombie like behavior ... Read More »