Santa Helena, Brazil News

Two Brazilian journalists working near the Paraguayan border were killed over the weekend, less than a week after the International Press Institute released a special report warning of increased violence against the media in Brazil's frontier regions.

The owner of a weekly newspaper was shot dead in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Helena following a bar brawl, and the assailant was released after confessing his crime, police said on Monday.

A bull rider in Albuquerque, New Mexico was lucky to escape alive after his boot and spur caught hold of a strap still attached to the bucking animal.

Paraguay veterinary services have destroyed 168 livestock mostly belonging to a farm where an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was confirmed Jan 2 in San Pedro county north of the country.

Paraguayan soldiers arrive at the Santa Helena farm where foot-and-mouth disease outbreak was detected, in San Pedro, some 400 km northeast of the capital, on September 20, 2011.