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A TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200, registration PR-MHU performing flight JJ-3081 from Recife,PE to Rio de Janeiro Galeao,RJ , was enroute when a passenger, a well known Brasilian singer, was invited to take the captain's seat and posed in the seat to fly the aircraft, that was on autopilot at that time with the first officer in his seat.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 18 -- The World Trade Organisation Director-General-elect, Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevedo, said Friday that his greatest challenge after assuming office would be to make the Doha Development Round move forward, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

Last weekend, on May 10th, THRILLER LIVE BRASIL premiered in So Paulo. After a sucessfull season in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, capital of the country, the musical performs at Credicard Hall, the biggest concert room of Latin America, until the end of june.

In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi attends a bi-lateral signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil.

Brazil's sugarcane harvest has gotten off to a flying start in a year expected to produce more ethanol, but not necessarily more ethanol exports.

It is one of the more improbable character re-inventions. One of the greatest Brazilian footballers, a rebel rarely out of trouble, reborn as a hard-working politician and a campaigner for disability rights.

A Brazilian judicial panel on Tuesday ruled registrars in the South American country cannot deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Throughout most of South America the official language is Spanish. The exception is Brazil, whose roughly 190 million citizens speak a form of Portuguese.

BRASILIA, May 14 - Brazil and Germany on Monday vowed to step up cooperation between the two countries.

This week, Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will lead an infrastructure business development trade mission to Brazil, Colombia, and Panama , countries that have created robust infrastructure development plans for the coming years.

NINETEEN years after Brazil's defunct national airline, ViaA A o AA©rea Rio-Grandense , ceased operations in Nigeria, Nigeria and Brazil are set to restore direct air links between them.

Brazil's President Rousseff gives a joint statement with her Argentine counterpart Fernandez de Kirchner at the government house in Buenos Aires BRASILIA - Brazil campaigned hard to get the top job at the World Trade Organization this week but behind closed doors even it acknowledges that the WTO's main mission - pushing forward in global trade ... (more)

US ambassador for United nations Susan Rice and Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota during a Press conference at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, on April 17, 2013.

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BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai urged the international community to stop supporting terror in Syria, according to a report published Friday by Syria's official news agency SANA.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro got strong backing from regional heavyweight Brazil on Thursday on a tour of South American allies to cement his legitimacy as political heir to the late Hugo Chavez.

President Dilma Rousseff added a new minister to her Cabinet on Thursday, further enlarging a federal government whose rapid growth since her leftist party came to power a decade ago has increased Brazil's heavy tax burden.

Amazon Indians from different tribes gather to show their unity as they occupy the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction site, in protest against the dam's construction, in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in Para State, on May 3, 2013.

Egypt wants more Brazilian investments and increased trade with Latin America's biggest nation, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said Wednesday.

Geneva/Brasilia - Brazilian trade envoy Roberto Azevedo was chosen Tuesday to head the World Trade Organisation , Brazil confirmed after member states reached a consensus decision.