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Greenpeace Occupies Rig in Arctic Drilling Protest
By not in system - AOL NewsANKARA, Turkey -- Greenpeace activists climbed aboard an oil rig off Istanbul on Friday in a bid to prevent it from reaching Greenland to begin deep-water drilling in the Arctic, but the vessel continued on its course undeterred. The environmental group said eleven activists, some in rock-climbing gear, used speedboats to intercept and then climb atop the Leiv Eiriksson at dawn, after it had left a port in Istanbul. They climbed the rig's derrick, unfurling a banner that read: "Stop Arctic destruction" and "Go Beyond Oil, Choose Clean Energy." Greenpeace / AP Greenpeace activists ...
Brazilian Police Debut 'RoboCop' Glasses Ahead of World Cup
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsImagine if police could stand back from a raucous crowd and scan the pack for criminals, without ever having to question a suspect or put their troops in harm's way. That's exactly what Brazilian police are hoping to do with new eyeglasses equipped with stealthy crime-fighting properties. Dubbed "RoboCop" glasses after the 1987 action film, the glasses are fitted with a tiny camera that scans up to 400 faces per second. It cross-checks those images against a database of criminals and terrorists, and flashes a small red light inside the glasses if a match comes up. Then the officer knows whom ...
Toy Tower: World's Tallest Lego Structure Soars Over Brazil
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsBuilding a tower that rises more than 100 feet isn't child's play -- even when you're using Legos. Blockheads in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have reportedly constructed the world's tallest Lego tower. Made from 500,000 pieces, the multicolored monolith rises 102 feet 3 inches. It took a team of 6,000 builders four days to construct the tower, which bests a previous record set in Santiago, Chile, by about 1 foot, ITN News reports. ...
Movement for Happiness Launches in Britain
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- Is there a science of happiness? A growing band of economists, politicians and academics thinks so -- and is putting theory into practice by starting a "mass movement for a happier society." Action for Happiness launched today in London, encouraging hugging, meditation and random acts of kindness. It is getting under way as the British government asks statisticians to measure the economically battered nation's well-being. The nonprofit group's founders include a former Downing Street policy chief, Tony Blair's biographer and an eminent economist. They say happiness -- long ...
2 Detained in Rio in Connection to School Shooting
By not in system - AOL NewsRIO DE JANEIRO - Two men have confessed to illegally supplying a gun to a man who entered a Rio de Janeiro school, opened fire and killed at least 12 children before taking his own life, a police official said Saturday. Charleston Souza de Lucena, 38, and Isaias de Souza, 48, said that they sold a gun to the shooter and regretted having done so, Officer Altamir Ribeiro said. He did not elaborate. He said the two men are not related. It was not immediately clear if police believe they also supplied the shooter with the second pistol he used in the rampage. Felipe Dana, AP A girl ...
12 Children Killed in Brazil School Shooting
By not in system - AOL NewsRIO DE JANEIRO -- A gunman roamed the halls of an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and killed 12 children, lining them up against a wall and shooting them in the head at point-blank range as he shouted, "I'm going to kill you all!" It was the worst school shooting in Brazil - and would have been deadlier if the gunman had not been shot in the legs by a police officer, who said the man then fell down some stairs and shot himself in the head. Images taken with a cell phone and posted on YouTube showed students fleeing wildly, screaming for help, many with their white and blue ...
Dozens of Bodies Found in Mexican Border State
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims. Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead. The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers ...
Murderer Wins Brazil's 'Miss Jail' Contest as Prison Pageants Gain Popularity
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsIn a country known for its beauty -- both natural and human -- it appears that even Brazil's convicted killers are easy on the eye. A prison in Recife, a city in the state of Pernambuco, recently held its inaugural Miss Jail pageant to join a growing global list of contests for beauties behind bars. "It's flattering that people think I am pretty," said the winner of Miss Jail 2011, 19-year-old convicted murderer Rebecca Rhaysa Suelen Guedesin. Europics/CEN Rebecca Rhaysa Suelen Guedesin, 19, second from right, was voted Miss Jail in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. She's been ...
Air France Plane Crash Parts Found in Atlantic
By not in system - AOL NewsPARIS - Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said Sunday, offering a surprising new glimmer of hope in the protracted hunt for clues to what happened. Previous extensive and expensive search efforts proved futile in attempts to shed light on the cause of the crash. All 228 people aboard Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, were killed when the plane slammed into the ocean during an intense high-altitude thunderstorm. AFP/Getty Images In a photo released on June 8, 2009, divers ...
Brazilian Plastic Surgeon Says He Operated on Gadhafi
By not in system - AOL NewsSAO PAULO -- It was well past midnight when the Brazilian surgeon says he was escorted deep inside a bunker in the Libyan capital. His assignment: to shave years off Moammar Gadhafi's appearance by removing fat from his belly and injecting it into his wrinkled face. The Libyan leader also got hair plugs. "He told me that he had been in power for 25 years at that time, and that he did not want the young people of his nation to see him as an old man," Dr. Liacyr Ribeiro recalled. "I recommended a facelift, but he refused." The secretive four-hour procedure in 1995 was done, at Gadhafi's ...
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