Brazil

The famous lingerie company Agent Provocateur chose the beautiful model from Brazil, Marcela Vivan, to promote their new autumn collection.

The company could not have made a better choice, this innocent sexuality of her brings out the best of the brand’s products.

If Turkey?s economy turns in on itself, employment in the country will decrease, according to former head of the Turkish Industrial and Business Association (TÜS?AD) and Boyner Holding board member Ümit Boyner.

23-year old Rita Mattos is a city street cleaner in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. There is nothing special about this, so far. But when the cute Brazilian cleaner posted some pictures of herself on the internet she became an instant hit, with her sexy photos rapidly circulating over the web.

Leading economist Daron Acemo?lu said in an interview with Turkish daily Cumhuriyet that Turkey?s economic problems still come from inside, adding high liquidity in global markets helped Turkey overcome the 2001 and 2008 economic crises but the situation has now changed. 

A rise in the short-term interest rate target by the Federal Reserve (Fed) could occur late on Sept. 17, and such a move would contribute to downside risks for some emerging market sovereigns, particularly those more reliant on foreign investors, said rating agency Moody?s in a research note on Sept. 17. 

The OECD cut its world economic growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016 on Sept. 16, warning of a dramatic slowdown in Brazil and a global outlook clouded by uncertainty over China.

The policy analysis club of 34 advanced economies had already slashed its economic forecasts just three months ago because of U.S. weakness.

The 2015 ranking of global universities has just been published by QS World University Rankings.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the one which has taken again the top place for the fourth year running, whereas Harvard climbed two places and got the second place.

Bulgaria has descended three spots in Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom of the World report, ranking 42nd among 157 countries and territories - at par with the Czech Republic, Sweden and Jamaica.

This year's edition of the report is based on 2013 statistics, the most recent year for which data is available. In last year's issue of the report Bulgaria ranked 39th.

Standard & Poor's cut Brazil's sovereign credit rating to junk on Sept.9, citing the struggle by President Dilma Rousseff's government to master growing debt and political turmoil.

Below are the highlights from a three-hour and mostly tepid debate by the seven political leaders with parties represented in the outgoing Parliament (sans Golden Dawn).