Brazil urges ban on Gisele Bundchen TV lingerie ad

Brazil's ministry for women has called for a TV advertisement featuring supermodel Gisele Bundchen in her underwear to be suspended.

The ministry has asked the advertising authorities to ban the lingerie ad, which it says "reinforces the erroneous stereotyping of women as sex objects".

In the ad, a scantily-clad Ms Bundchen distracts her husband while telling him bad news, such as damaging the car.

In 2010, the ministry secured the ban of a beer ad featuring Paris Hilton.

The advertisement "ignores the progress made in ending sexist practices. It also represents discrimination against women", the ministry said in a statement.

The TV campaign sends a message "that sensuality can melt any man" and "encourages Brazilian women to use their charms... to minimise the reactions of their husbands", it said.

Lingerie company Hope said in a statement its advert had a "clear and well-defined goal to show, with good humour, that the natural sensuality of Brazilian women, which is known worldwide, can be an effective weapon when giving bad news".

The firm said it had hired Ms Bundchen, one of Brazil's most successful international models, to show it was not about the economic dependence of women.

"It would be absurd if we, who make a living from the preferences of women, took any stance that devalued our customers," it said.

The advertising council is directly overseen by President Dilma Rousseff, the country's first female president.

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Students occupy Strathclyde University in fees protest

Students have occupied Strathclyde University in Glasgow in a protest over what they see as high tuition fees.

The students entered the university's McCance Building at 11:00. They intend to stay there until an STUC organised demonstration on Saturday.

Strathclyde University said it was working to minimise disruption.

On Tuesday, the university set annual fees of £9,000 - capped at £27,000 for a four-year degree - for students from England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Students from the rest of the UK (RUK) at Scottish universities currently pay about £1,800 in tuition fees.
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The increase in tuition fees for non-Scots came after the UK government raised the cap for universities in England to £9,000 a year.

Students from the occupation said they will stay on campus until Saturday's Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) organised People First demonstration in Glasgow.
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A statement from the students said: "We are sending a clear message that for the first time in years, there is a strong, united student movement which will continue to play a role within the struggle against austerity.

"RUK fees are another clear example of universities using a climate of austerity to attack jobs, cut courses and turn universities into money making enterprises.

"This occupation, along with others, intends to demonstrate how strongly the students oppose the commodification of education."

The students are demanding "no fees for rest of UK students", to "halt all course closures and cutbacks to lecturers and staff", "no cuts to any other departments or staff" and a "living wage" for all university staff.

They also want "no introduction of three year degree programmes" but instead, fully-funded full degree courses.

The students are also demanding free access in and out of the occupation and a promise of "no reprisals for students and staff participating".

A spokesman for Strathclyde University said: "A small number of protestors are holding a sit-in in one of the university's administration buildings.

"The impact is localised and the university is working to minimise disruption."

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Executive to establish inquiry into abuse

The executive has agreed to establish an inquiry into allegations of abuse in children's homes and other care institutions going back as far as 1945.

The organisations who ran the institutions will face pressure to explain the treatment of children over the course of five decades.

They include Catholic religious orders, state and voluntary groups.

The inquiry follows lengthy judicial examinations of horrifying tales of abuse in the Irish Republic.

Concern has been expressed that passing the legislation necessary to give the inquiry powers to compel witnesses to appear and to obtain all relevant records could take the Northern Ireland Assembly two years.

Therefore the plan is to move forward immediately with other elements.

An advocacy service, designed to support victims of abuse, is to be created within around two months.

Then an "acknowledgment forum" will commence work behind closed doors.

The forum will enable survivors of the often harsh regimes inside homes to tell their stories, and will seek to gather evidence from those organisations with authority over the institutions.

No immunity

The forum is expected to be headed by a senior legal figure, someone with understanding of children's services and an expert in child psychology.

It is hoped the forum will begin its work in around four to six months.

Although the proceedings will be confidential, there will be no immunity for those facing allegations.

Any new information about possible criminal offences which emerges from forum hearings will be passed to the police.

Researchers will be hired to work alongside the forum, in order to provide an accurate context for any allegations.

After the assembly has pushed through its legislation the inquiry will be established on a statutory footing.

Some campaigners believe the delay could be avoided by using the current 2005 Inquiries Act.

However Stormont sources have said their legal advice is that a new law is required to deal with complaints prior to 1973.

The executive is expected to formally apologise to the victims, although that may not happen until the forum has established the full facts.

Victims are expected to be compensated not with cash, but with funding towards services that meet their needs, such as family holidays or retreats.

One informed source said "we are not going to financially underwrite the Catholic church".

In the Irish Republic, more than a billion euros was spent on an inquiry into institutional abuse.

There is no firm estimate yet of the cost or duration of the Northern Ireland inquiry, but sources suggest it will run into tens of millions but not hundreds of millions of pounds.

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Martin McGuinness has 'no problem' attending Smithwick

Martin McGuinness has said he has "no problem at all" attending the Smithwick Tribunal.

But the Irish Presidential candidate said he had no "direct knowledge" of the circumstances surrounding the killings being investigated.

Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan were killed in an IRA ambush in south Armagh on 20 March, 1989.

The Breen family solicitor called on Mr McGuinness to come forward with any information he has about the murders.

The Smithwick Tribunal is investigating allegations of Garda collusion in the murder of the two officers after they left a meeting in Dundalk Garda station.

John McBurney, solicitor for the Breen family, made his remarks after Martin McGuinness, speaking in a TV interview, said he was "ashamed" about republican involvement in the Enniskillen bombing.

Mr McGuinness said the 1987 bombing, in which 11 people were killed at the Cenotaph, was atrocious.

He also denied in the RTE interview that he was a senior figure in the IRA at the time.

However, a relative of one of the victims said Mr McGuinness was trying to distance himself from the IRA.

Mr McBurney said the admission "raises questions about whether Mr McGuinness feels ashamed at what happened to Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan".

"It is my understanding that some of the information obtained by the tribunal up to this point, at least one witness has made reference to Martin McGuinness in some general way," said Mr McBurney.

In a statement Martin McGuinness said: "This tribunal, along with others, was established to try and help families get to the truth about the deaths of their loved ones. Republicans have already displayed a willingness to co-operate fully with the work of the Smithwick Tribunal.

"Although I have no direct knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the killings being investigated by the Smithwick Tribunal I have no problem at all attending the tribunal if it is of assistance to the families and to the overall process."

A spokesperson for the Smithwick Tribunal has said it welcomes assistance from any person in a position to provide it.

The Irish government has given the Dublin-based tribunal a deadline of 30 November to complete its investigation.

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Killer shark was unveiled to more than one hundred characters.

Unveil a killer shark precise Mark quart serious techno age of 60 years, he hunted sharks for more than 100,000 during the life of a hunter than 40 years since 1976 and he was one of the few people who have taken a killer shark. exists. He is now settling down, the shark hunter based in Miami, Florida, USA.

The shark was caught, most species have a long great white shark 15 feet of water for more than 2,500 pounds, caught off the coast of New York or ฉlamesืa which is the most aggressive species of shark species. And emerging threats. The ฉlamesืa the largest ever caught with more than 15 feet weighs 1400 pounds.

The hammer head sharks. The species were retained by International Union for Conservation of Nature. Although the two shark species are endangered, but could not stop his career Mark was here that the shark should be hunted. To hoist, pull it up on the back of the boat. This is a technique to maintain body weight is lost.

However, there are people such as William Smith or Robert De Nero in his client. He is a bounty hunter in a boat to the sharks, but 125 pounds for a boat ride out to hunt together. The two men said to him to relax as well.

In addition, Mark also concluded that। No shark species, which he was never caught. That is what makes him very proud. He is a hunter to hunt for recreation. Do not have to hunt for the destruction.

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Kim & Kourtney Kardashian & Kristin Cavallari Posing On Beach

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Eurozone crisis: Europe's choice to punish or protect

It has been clear for some time what the outlines of a potential deal to save the euro would be.

But, contrary to what the more breathless newspaper headlines have suggested, there was no comprehensive deal on the table in Washington this weekend for ministers to discuss, let alone sign up to.

First things first: officials have, more or less, accepted the need for a bigger write-down of Greek debt and more capital for Europe's banks.

There are plenty of devilish details to sort out. But you can sort them out without requiring a major philosophical shift on the part of the European Central Bank (ECB) or Germany. All that is required is that eurozone leaders grasp the urgency of the situation, which, supposedly, they now do.

However, the same cannot be said of the proposals for the eurozone rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). My bet is that this will happen, in some shape or form. But not without a fight. There is also the small problem that it might not be constitutional.

On the banks, Europeans had one good reason to hate the IMF's estimate of the losses banks had faced as a result of the crisis. In coming up with the 300bn-euros ($400bn; £260bn) figure, fund staff had added up all the "mark-to-market" losses which European banks would have made on their sovereign debt holdings for countries like Greece or Italy.

But, by design, the calculation did not take any account of the very large gains that had been made on the same banks' holdings of, say, British or German sovereign debt, whose value has soared over the same period (the counterpart of that dramatic fall in yields).

This was unfortunate. It gave eurozone ministers an excuse to quibble with the details of the IMF's analysis, instead of finally accepting the basic argument which the fund, the US and the UK have been making for over a year: Europe's banks need more capital. Arguably, they were under-capitalised even before the Greek crisis hit.

They need even more capital now. That much is now widely accepted by the Germans and pretty much everyone else. Again, the details of how to do it are tricky, and the amounts are disputed. But the principle has been agreed. It will happen.
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You might expect me to say the same about beefing up the EFSF; after all, didn't they already expand it once? But the change under discussion is not one of scale - it is one of design. And the design change gets to a fundamental question of principle about the bailouts which has dogged the eurozone's response to the crisis from day one.

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