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• Trash first look review – Stephen Daldry forages into a favela mystery

  

  20 Oct 2014: Stunning performances from a trio of young Brazilian actors save Daldry’s compelling tale of corruption from a rubbish ending, writes Jordan Riefe

• Brazil must target smallholders to curb rising deforestation

  20 Oct 2014: While the largest landowners have cut their contribution to deforestation by two-thirds, that of smallholders has increased

• You call that a deadly spider? Australia's funnel web can kill in 15 minutes

  20 Oct 2014: Queensland expert says Brazilian wandering spider found in UK family’s shopping pales in significance beside its more lethal Australian counterparts

• Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals

  19 Oct 2014: Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year

• Bikes pretending to be cars? Riga's cyclists stage a clever protest over space

  17 Oct 2014: City links: The best city stories this week follow activist cyclists in Latvia’s capital, explore Minneapolis’ plan for a ‘city within a city’ and discover proposals for street canals in Boston

• Leandro Damião may be suspended for six games for pulling own shirt

  17 Oct 2014: Leandro Damião has been charged with ‘unsportsmanlike behaviour’ after he pulled his own shirt in a bid to fool the referee

• Paulo Scott: ‘literature is not an easy truth’

  16 Oct 2014: Brazil’s indigenous people are rarely portrayed in literature. But they are at the heart of former lawyer and activist Paulo Scott’s innovative novel, Nowhere People. He spoke to Richard Lea

• Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil's Amazon rainforest

  15 Oct 2014: Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon

• Leandro Damião pulls own shirt in attempt to deceive referee in Brazil

  13 Oct 2014: The Brazilian striker Leandro Damião has taken simulation to a whole new level by appearing to pull his own shirt in Criciuma’s 3-0 win over Santos in an attempt to deceive the referee

• Brazil election blow for Rousseff after Silva backs rival for presidency

  12 Oct 2014: Popular former minister who fell out of race throws support behind Aécio Neves after his commitments on environment

• What’s really going on at the Love School?

  12 Oct 2014: A sell-out event at Wembley Arena last month promised to teach Ed Cumming – and 11,000 others – how to make the most of their relationships. Instead he learnt all about a savvy operation raking in money for a ‘neo-Pentecostal’ church group from Brazil

• Can the next Brazilian president put the country back on the path to prosperity?

  10 Oct 2014: Edmund Amann: Poverty has fallen and inflation is low, but fears of a slump have undermined support for presidential incumbent Dilma Rousseff

• Brazilian club hires hypnotist to teach players to walk over broken glass

  8 Oct 2014: Relegation-threatened Brazilian club Portuguesa have attempted to end their miserable run by hiring a hypnotist

• The challenge of filling the skills gap in emerging economies

  Guardian Professional, 7 Oct 2014: Developing and emerging economies can turn themselves into factories of talent not the ‘cheaply-staffed workbenches’ of the developed world
  

• Could Dilma Rousseff lose the second round runoff?

  6 Oct 2014: The incumbent Brazilian president got 41.4% of the total vote in the first round of presidential elections and will go into a runoff with her nearest rival - the data shows this might be closer than many expect

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