“If you add them all up I control 15 communities,” boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian capital’s most wanted drug Continue ..

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With 100 days to the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the athletes village was handed over to the Games organizers Wednesday. The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Winter Games now begins Continue ..

The three runners who died in Detroit , aged 26, 36 and 65, all collapsed within 20 minutes of each other, no further along than just beyond the half-marathon mark. The two younger runners both collapsed for reasons yet unknown. The 65-year-old Continue ..

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