The World Today The other title chase Now the football is over, Brazil’s next battle will be the upcoming elections. The fight to become president will be just as fierce
The World Today Iraq: The West needs to acknowledge that the country is breaking up Centrifugal forces are irresistible and the West should accept the fact
The World Today The middle class that Lula made The boom years may be over but steps to increase equality in the Brazilian economy will be lasting
The World Today Ready or not, Brazil has the ball at its feet When Neymar, Oscar and the other members of Brazil’s national team take the field against Croatia on June 12 they will be kicking off not just the World Cup, but a big two years for Brazil in which it will often be in the international spotlight. The country will go to the polls on October 3 when President Dilma Rousseff will seek a second term. And in August 2016, Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympic Games.
The World Today Review: The slow progress of women in the diplomatic service Helen McCarthy Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat, Bloomsbury, £21.99.
The World Today Three experts look at how Brazil is projecting its influence abroad Seeking a wider horizon
The World Today Brazil Five years ago, the President of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, declared: ‘I’m convinced that the 21 st century is Brazil’s century’.
The World Today How the Japanese came to Brazil Malcha’s is a falafel shop owned by a woman who left Yemen to settle first in Israel and then Brazil. Her small restaurant is located in a São Paulo neighbourhood known in the 19th century as Italian, in the 20th century as Jewish, and in the 21st century as Korean and Bolivian. The menu is written in Portuguese, Hebrew, and Korean. The packed lunch hour is just a small indication of how the long history of immigration to Brazil has created an immensely multicultural society.
The World Today The Golan Heights: ripples of civil war in Israel's little piece of Syria The Golan Heights is home to thousands of Druze who cling on tenaciously while looking over their shoulder at the chaos in their homeland
The World Today Nigeria’s child catchers The rise of a radical jihadist group to international infamy
The World Today UN Peacekeepers: who is accountable for their misdeeds? There was an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in October 2010, the first case of the disease in the country for 150 years. Since then, thousands have died. There is evidence to suggest that cholera was brought to Haiti by the United Nations, although the organization has strongly rejected this.
The World Today Notebook: with the Archbishop in Pakistan Primate loose in Lahore: how Welby gave his minders the slip
The World Today Postcard from Washington: the holy alliance of drugs and money Money is helping to decriminalize marijuana
The World Today Review: how football has helped shape Brazil Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, Alex Bellos, BloomsburyThe Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil, edited by Paulo Fontes and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, C Hurst & Co.
The World Today Review: rediscovering literary treasures of the Amazon Few in the West know of Brazil’s literature. It’s our loss
The World Today Ten minutes with Andre Camara, favela photographer The photographer who inspired the character of Rocket in the 2003 film City of God speaks to Agnes Frimston about Brazil
