A quota scheme to try to increase the number of BAME employees in the Brazilian justice system only applies to ugly candidates after a black woman whose ancestors were slaves was told she did not qualify because she was too pretty. Economist Rebeca da Silva Mello, 28, originally got through…
A popular young businessman and only child has fallen to his death in a horror bungee jumping accident after the rope apparently snapped at a popular beauty spot. Adam Esteves Gomes Dias Martins, 25, fell to his death from the 100-metre (328-foot) Prainha Viaduct, in the municipality of Antonio Dias,…
A young woman with a rare disease that means she has not eaten in two years, is also allergic to water and suffered cancer, has notched up half a million social media followers as she talks about her health battle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-14a9HD9ys&feature=youtu.be @apenas.fernanda/Newsflash Fernanda Martinez, 22, from the southern Brazilian city…
An inmate subjected to an X-ray was found to have eight mobile phones, chargers, cables and SIM cards inside his body. The unnamed inmate had just been transferred to the Osvaldo Florentino Leite Ferreira Penitentiary in the city of Sinop, west-central Brazil, on 18th September. Upon entering, officers at the…
Brazilian TV star Angelica has aimed to break the stigma surrounding sex toys in an interview with national broadsheet O Globo, in which she claimed "Vibrador e vida" (Vibrator is life). The well-known TV presenter, actress and singer, whose full name is Angelica Ksyvickis, told readers that it's time to…
