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Nine months ahead of the 2025 U.N. climate conference known as COP30, prices for lodging are alarming those who want to attend the event in Belem, Brazil’s Amazonian host city

Around 1.4 million homes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are without power almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America’s largest city

investigators Saturday began analyzing the black boxes from a Sao Paulo-bound flight to try to understand why the passenger plane fell from 17,000 feet Friday, in a crash that killed all 62 on board. But to aviation experts around the world who watched videos showing the 89-foot plane spinning slowly as it plummeted before crashing almost directly on its belly, the question of what had happened was simple to answer: The plane had stalled. In other words, the plane's wings had lost the lift needed to keep the aircraft aloft, causing it to stop flying and start falling.

Vinhedo: An airplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew crashed Friday in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, the airline said. The aircraft, an ATR 72-500 operated by Voepass airline, was traveling from Cascavel in southern Parana state to Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo. Voepass initially said the plane was carrying 58 passengers, but a statement on the airline's website later revised the figure to 57.

Rio de Janeiro next week, following two years of geopolitical disputes that overshadowed their work and raised questions about the very purpose of the G-20. Geopolitical clashes, particularly the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, will be addressed in a separate chair statement published by the host nation together with the communique, according to ambassador Mauricio Carvalho Lyrio, the secretary for economic and financial affairs at Brazil's foreign ministry. «We need to resume the production of documents by the G-20,» he told reporters in Brasilia on Friday. «We will no longer demand the inclusion of language about geopolitics in ministerial documents.» Deep disagreements over the wars prevented G-20 finance chiefs from issuing a communique in February, when they met in Sao Paulo under Brazil's rotating presidency of the group. The same happened in India last year and in Indonesia in 2022. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's presidency of the G-20 is facing steep challenges in a tumultuous international climate dominated by contentious elections and the wars. Still, Brazilian authorities say discussions around his main proposals are making progress. The leftist leader has been pushing for the creation of a global minimum tax on billionaires to fund actions against climate change and programmes to eliminate world hunger.

NFL 2024 schedule is yet to be announced officially but details of the first game have emerged. "Super Bowl" defending champion Kansas City Chiefs will take on Baltimore Ravens, as per a report on USA Today.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) — A consortium with Brazilian firm Comporte and a subsidiary of Beijing-based company CRRC was the only bidder and won an auction on Thursday for a 30-year concession to build a railway that would link the cities of Sao Paulo and Campinas.

By David Lawder

The strength of the US economy has been a key driver of global economic resilience, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to say Tuesday ahead of meetings with her counterparts from the world’s top economies.

Fishing gear plastic formed nearly three-quarters of the plastic debris documented through underwater visual surveys of coral reefs across the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, new research published in the journal Nature said. Revealing the extent of plastic pollution on coral reefs, an international team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences (US), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), University of Oxford (UK), and other collaborators found that debris increased with depth and is correlated with proximity to marine protected areas. The team conducted more than 1,200 visual surveys across 84 shallow and mesophotic reef ecosystems located in 14 countries. Mesophotic, or 'twilight zone', coral reefs exist between 30 and 150 metres deep. Of the total debris, 88 per cent was macroplastics larger than about five centimetres. Human-derived debris was found in nearly all locations studied, including some of the planet's most remote and pristine coral reefs, such as those adjacent to uninhabited islands in the central Pacific. The lowest density of plastic pollution was seen in the Marshall Islands, a coral island group in eastern Micronesia (Oceania), while the highest was recorded at Comoros, an island chain off the southeast coast of Africa, at nearly 84,500 items per square kilometre.

However, do you know that exercising is also the secret to a healthy brain and helps you steer clear of health conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s? As per a recent research, regular strength or resistance training can boost brain health. The study, which was conducted by the Federal University of Sao Paulo and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil found that resistance training, where muscles are worked against a weight or force, can work wonders for dementia or Alzheimer’s patients.