Topic - Brazil

• Brazil files injunction against Twitter

  A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests.

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  Striking Brazil police leave building; violence up during stoppage

  Striking police officers in the northeastern city of Salvador on Thursday evacuated the state legislative building they had occupied in protest for more than a week.

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  U.S.-Brazil soccer exhibition set for Washington

  The long-rumored matchup of the United States men's national soccer team and perennial powerhouse Brazil at FedEx Field is now officially set.

• U.N. marks week seeking interfaith links

  The role of religion in promoting links and dialogue across cultures and across continents moved into the spotlight earlier this month as the U.N. General Assembly marked the second annual World Interfaith Harmony Week.

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  Safety fears for World Cup, Olympics

  Enormous buildings suddenly collapse in this Olympic city's center, killing 17.

• Brazil court orders end to strike at WCup stadium

  A court in northeastern Brazil has ruled workers building a World Cup stadium in Recife must end their strike.

• Hackers attack Brazil's largest state-run bank

  A group of Internet hackers said Wednesday it took down the website of the Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-run bank. It's the third such attack against financial institutions in a week.

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  LUTHI: Obama's dishonest energy promise

  President Obama's ambiguous call to "open" 75 percent of the country's potential offshore oil and natural gas resources to exploration may sound generous, but the truth is, the areas containing those resources are technically already included in the upcoming 2012 to 2017 offshore leasing plan, and they are virtually the same areas where exploration and production have been allowed for decades.

• Barrichello considering move to IndyCar after test

  Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello spent a third day Wednesday testing for KV Racing Technology. Although a move to IndyCar was not imminent, the Brazilian is definitely considering the series for 2012.

• Major soccer stadium disasters

  A list of fatal disasters at soccer stadiums around the world.

• Gil ousts Andujar 6-2, 6-1 at Vina Del Mar

  Frederico Gil of Portugal upset fourth-seeded Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the Vina del Mar VTR Open on Wednesday.

• Hackers attack large Brazilian bank

  A group of Internet hackers said Tuesday it took down the website of Brazil's second largest private sector bank, one day after it did the same with the country's largest private bank.

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  Ecuadorean leader's largesse

  Amparo Martinez's universe is two small, tidy rooms in a poor Quito neighborhood that she shares with her 83-year-old mother and a severely handicapped daughter.

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  Living in a democracy, but not free

  DAVOS, SWITZERLAND | Governments that call themselves democratic often fear democracy in practice, leaving it up to their people to seize the initiative, as last year's Arab Spring revolutions across the Arab world have shown.

• Brazilian bikinis burgeon to fit the fat

  Tall and tan and young and ... chunky?

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