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Gerardo LissardyBBC World, Brazil16 September 2014image source, AFPcaption, Environmentalist Marina Silva and President Dilma Rousseff are fighting head to head ahead of the October 5 elections.Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff was the clear favorite to be re-elected in the Oct. 5 election, up to 15 points ahead of her nearest rival. That, of course, until a month ago.After environmentalist Marina Silva replaced a deceased socialist candidate and became the favourite, up to ten points ahead of Rousseff in a likely runoff election. That, sure, until a few days ago.Now the president is on a comeback and reduces the gap that leads…

Criticism of Tony Romo's broadcast this season has been a hot topic, especially his last playoff game for CBS, calling the Kansas City Chiefs' win over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game. While Romo was once considered the next best color commentator in the NFL, this season has seen some discontent from fans, who say he's stating the obvious more than usual, among other things. Romo has also been admitting on air that he doesn't understand what really happened on certain plays, which is the last thing an analyst should say. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON…

President Joe Biden is expected to travel to Poland this month to mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to three people familiar with the planning.The current planning underway is for Biden to visit Poland in late February, sources told NBC News.The sources noted that the trip is not final until announced by the White House and that plans could change.A spokesman for the National Security Council declined to comment.It was not immediately clear if additional stops would be added to the trip.NBC News was the first to report last month that Biden was considering a trip…

“Ten major cities were affected by tremors,” Tobin said. "The scale is remarkable."The location of the earthquakes was not a surprise. They broke near what seismologists call a "triple junction," where the African, Arabian, and Anatolian tectonic plates meet. The East Anatolian Fault is a known mapped fault system. Eastern Anatolia, like the San Andreas fault in California, is a course failure. The earthquake was the result of stress, and then slippage, when the tectonic plates rubbed laterally against each other.Unlike other types of earthquakes, such as those produced by subduction zones, strike faults are known to produce shallow earthquakes…