BRASIL: Floods Kill 10, Send 31,000 Fleeing In Sta. Catarina, Parana And Rio Grande do Sul.

CNN
   At least 10 are reported dead with 31,000 people forced from homes in Santa Catarina, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul states after heavy rains. (2008 flooding foto)

BRASIL: Parana Stadium Collapses, Injuring At Least 110, 22 Seriously.

BBC/      Stadium seating collapsed injuring 110, some 22 seriously, during a car race in southern Parana state. The severely injured were hospitalized after the accident at the Quatro Pontes stadium.
 FOR  1:04 AP VIDEO, SEE :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_tVDH2ZNWo

BRASIL: Man Shows Up At Own Funeral in Parana.

AP/MIAMI HERALD/
A bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash showed up alive at his own funeral in Parana. Relatives identified 59-year-old Ademir Jorge Goncalves as the victim of a car crash in southern Brazil.
But family members didn't know that Goncalves had spent the night at a truck stop drinking heavily and he did not get word about his own funeral until it was already happening.