Boy, 2, WON’T have surgery to remove huge cancerous tumour because his parents hope alternative medicine will offer a cure instead The 23-month-old was reportedly diagnosed with the disease nine months ago following a biopsy at Srinakarin Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Khondej has since undergone a series of chemotherapy treatments and now surgeons want to operate to remove part of his brain, cheekbone and jaw.
Category: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tests determine Brazil’s ex- first lady legally dead
Workers Party supporters stand outside the Sirio Libanes hospital, where former first lady Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017.
Brazil president to wait to replace justice killed in crash
In this photo released by Brazil’s Presidency, Brazil’s President Michel Temer attends the funeral of Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Saturday, Jan 21, 2017. Brazil’s president said Saturday that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.
Shooter kills at least 11 and himself at Brazil New Year’s party
A gunman stormed a house party and killed at least 11 people and himself during New Year celebrations in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas late on Saturday. Police in the state of Sao Paulo said the shooter is believed to have been angry over a separation from his former wife, who was among those killed.
Comprehensive retrospective include many of the Vik Muniz’s most recent works
The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University serves as the only Midwest venue for a major mid-career retrospective of the celebrated contemporary photographer Vik Muniz in fall 2016. Co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Vik Muniz covers more than twenty-five years of the imaginative artist’s career and features over 80 photographs, including many of Muniz’s most recent works.