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...Just outside the city, where the black Rio Negro meets the murky brown Solimões to form the Amazon river, the drought has exposed a rocky outcrop with human faces carved into the stone....
...The limit on the number of transits came in July, just as carriers were set to increase trade ahead of Black Friday and Christmas in the US....
...With eyes black and empty, an emaciated family traverses the bone-scattered scrubland as vultures circle above....
...Sitting on a boulder behind the curtain of water, I felt like a stowaway....
...There is this idea that it is a white region of Italian-German immigration and not so much influenced by black Brazilians,” he added....
...Some of McCullin’s most recent images, she explained, included striking black-and-white compositions of objects exhibited at the baths....
...What about Rio? Edwin HeathcoteRio, you’d have to go to the to the beachfronts, to Copacabana and Ipanema....
...She recalls walking 80km to Santa Teresa as a child after the Catholic mission was moved there from the gold town of Arltunga, where the water supply had been poisoned by a mine....
...The wide mouth of the Rio Tejo (the Tagus in English) looked like the edge of the world, tipping away into oceans of light....
...For that reason, I’ve chosen an apartment in Rio, several floors up, maybe in the neighbourhood of Flamengo....
...“Black-tailed vulture.”...
...The Futaleufú is one of the world’s great white-water rafting rivers. A few miles downstream, where powerful currents are compressed between canyon walls, it becomes a cauldron of white water....
...A stone’s throw up the Rio Grande gorge – an 800ft-deep groove in a millions-of-years-old lava flow – sits Black Rock, a series of tubs right on the river, ringed with black basalt pumice stones, and anywhere...
...You’ll find Trevalli cheese with black truffle, black truffle cream, truffle and ricotta pesto and black truffle risotto....
...Miami remains largely segregated and almost all the people sweating their way down Little Haiti’s streets are black....
...Why not black tie with dreadlocks?...
...Fuelled by little more than a black coffee, he’ll swim 10,000 metres, or 200 lengths of an Olympic-sized pool, grinding his heavily tattooed arms through the water....
...not on bottled water....
...“Cariocas are like fish, you cannot keep them out of the water.” Additional reporting by Carolina Pulice in São Paulo...
...Rio said it had begun the process to identify a successor to Mr Jacques....
...Everything is a black box.” The games’ organisers reject both this criticism and Mr Furusawa’s concerns about public involvement....
...“It was completely, completely out of the water for me, initially,” says William Sullivan, who was Tehachapi’s warden until a few months ago....
...every day, and her Black Leg Masque, which contains a complex of essential oils that promote decongestion....
...The remainder is shared between an employee trust, local communities and investors in a scheme to increase the black majority’s ownership of mines....
...Being Brazilian and having lived for 17 years in Rio de Janeiro, one of the gayest capitals in the world, didn’t help much in my coming out....
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