[Article] BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro : Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist rebel, made history when she became Brazil’s first woman president in 2010. Four years later, the 66-year-old technocrat is leading in the polls for the country’s first electoral round on October 5. But a weak economy and a corruption scandal have hit her campaign, and ecologist Marina Silva has emerged as a serious challenger.
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Dilma Rousseff was all set to secure a second term as Brazil's first female president.That's until ecologist Marina Silva crashed the party. Her sudden entrance into the race and surge in the polls rattled the campaign.Rousseff has since regained her lead. But to do so, she had to go on the offensive...
SYRIA, Damascus: A group of Damascus students have created a Facebook page called the “Daily Dairy of Mortars” to keep track of the daily barrage of mortars from rebel-held areas. It’s a survival tactic of the digital age in a war that has lasted over three years and left more than ninety thousand dead.
