Brazil’s top presidential candidate offers more of the same _ and voters love it

Just more of the same? Brazilian voters love it

Brazil’s leading presidential candidate brings more of the same _ and voters like it

Brazil’s Rousseff offers more of the same

SAO PAULO — To understand why Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff is so popular despite being virtually unknown a few months back, you need only to enter the Paraisopolis slum.

Portuguese court convicts all 7 defendants of child sex abuse after 6-year trial

7 defendants convicted in Portugal sex abuse trial

Court starts giving verdicts in Portuguese child sex abuse trial that lasted almost 6 years

Court gives verdicts in Portugal child abuse trial

After 6 years, Portugal’s biggest child sex abuse trial draws to a close

6 years on, Portugal child sex trial reaches end

Rooney, Ronaldo, now Messi _ soccer’s biggest stars misfire at World Cup

Rooney, Ronaldo, now Messi - stars misfire in Cup

Portuguese photographer held up at gunpoint, 2 other journalists also robbed at same hotel

Journalist held up at gunpoint, 2 others robbed

Pope calls abortion, same-sex marriage ‘insidious and dangerous’ threats to common good

Pope calls abortion, gay marriage insidious threat

Pope recalls assassination attempt on John Paul while praying before Fatima shrine

Pope in Fatima recalls John Paul shooting

FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Benedict XVI traveled to the Catholic shrine of Fatima on Wednesday, recalling the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II and other “sufferings” of the church, which he has said included the church sex abuse scandal.

Pope makes most thorough admission on church’s guilt in clerical sex abuse scandal

Pope: Church’s own sins to blame in sex scandal

Pope blames church’s own sins for sex scandal, not outsiders; calls for profound purification

Pope blames church’s own sins for sex scandal

Pope calls sex scandal church’s “greatest” threat but blames it on sins inside the church

Pope sees sex scandal as greatest threat to church

Noriega’s extradition to France angers abuse victims, but most Panamanians eager to forget him

Noriega extradition to France angers abuse victims

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world

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Spanish police seize van loaded with explosives; 4 Basque separatists detained in 2 countries

4 Basque separatists arrested in Portugal, France