GenevaLunch » Brazil http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Jetman circles Rio’s Christ the Redeemerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/03/jetman-circles-rios-christ-the-redeemer/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/03/jetman-circles-rios-christ-the-redeemer/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 06:17:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69866 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Yves Rossy, popularly known as Jetman, 2 May circled Rio’s famed Corcovado flying with a jet on his back, before landing on Copacabana Beach in Brazil. He was launched from a helicopter at 10:45 Wednesday and headed towards the Corcovado, then circled its famous giant Christ the Redeemer statue. “Face to face [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/trio-arrested-in-brazil-for-cannibalism/feed/ 0 European tourist numbers fell in 2011, others rosehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/21/european-tourist-numbers-fell-in-2011-others-rose/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/21/european-tourist-numbers-fell-in-2011-others-rose/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:23:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66841 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The tourist industry saw a slight decline in visitors in 2011, final year-end figures show, to 35.5 million overnight stays. Overall the drop was 2 percent. Decreases were seen only with European tourists, down 7 percent, in terms of overnight stays. The Americas are treated together statistically and while visitors from the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/21/european-tourist-numbers-fell-in-2011-others-rose/feed/ 0 Sports, football: Brazil mourns Socrateshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/04/sports-football-brazil-mourns-socrates/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/04/sports-football-brazil-mourns-socrates/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:19:39 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=64430 GenevaLunch.com SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -  Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira : there will probably never be another footballer quite like him. Named, like his brothers, after a Greek philosopher Socrates was Brazil’s captain, a medical doctor, political activist, heavy drinker, smoker, a self proclaimed anti-athlete and a fan of Ché Guevara. The Brazilian [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/04/sports-football-brazil-mourns-socrates/feed/ 0 Monkey shines: Brazil has a newly found species, says WWFhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/25/monkey-shines-brazil-has-a-newly-found-species-says-wwf/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/25/monkey-shines-brazil-has-a-newly-found-species-says-wwf/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:01:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60969 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A new species of monkey has been found in Brazil, in a protected area of forest in Mata Grosso. The monkey is a member of the Callicebus family, a forest monkey. It lives primarily in the undergrowth of the forest, surviving mainly on fruits and insects. WWF biologists, who discovered the monkey [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/25/monkey-shines-brazil-has-a-newly-found-species-says-wwf/feed/ 0 Lausanne hosts world TV moguls for Olympics US rights bidshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/lausanne-hosts-world-tv-moguls-for-olympics-us-rights-bids/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/lausanne-hosts-world-tv-moguls-for-olympics-us-rights-bids/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:42:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58513 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Beau Rivage in Lausanne will be bustling with sports and TV executives Monday and Tuesday 6-7 June, as intense bidding gets underway to win US broadcast rights for upcoming Olympic Games. Day’s end Tuesday, after a cocktail party where the bidders will socialize while waiting for news, should see the winner [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/06/lausanne-hosts-world-tv-moguls-for-olympics-us-rights-bids/feed/ 4 Air France crash: judge calls in Airbus, Air Francehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/20/air-france-crash-judge-calls-in-airbus-air-france/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/20/air-france-crash-judge-calls-in-airbus-air-france/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 07:27:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57941 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Air France and Airbus were called in by a French judge 19 and 20 May to provide evidence about the airplane that went down off the coast of Brazil in June 2009, reports French news service Free. Details have not been released, but earlier in the week the BEA, the French agency [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/20/air-france-crash-judge-calls-in-airbus-air-france/feed/ 1 Swiss tourism up in Marchhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/swiss-tourism-up-in-march/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/swiss-tourism-up-in-march/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 08:59:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57431 GenevaLunch.com Airlines, tourist reservations in Europe also seeing strong growth Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Overnight stays in Swiss hotels, the standard measure of the tourism industry’s health, rose to 3.3 million, a 2.3 percent increase in March 2011 compared to March 2010. The latest figures were released by the Swiss statistical office Monday 9 May. Foreign [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/28/pre-carnival-tragedy-17-killed-in-brazil/feed/ 0 Ten warmest years on record: all of them since 1998http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/20/ten-warmest-years-on-record-all-of-them-since-1998/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/20/ten-warmest-years-on-record-all-of-them-since-1998/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:39:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52649 GenevaLunch.com 2010 equal to 2005 and 1998, confirms global warming trend Extreme weather events listed but no direct link made (video, El Niño, La Niña) Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Those who thought 2010 was hotter than usual were right: it was one of the warmest years on record, sharing the top hot slot with 2005 and [...]

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