No one who saw her as the oddball heroine of "Annie Hall" can forget her trilling "La de da, la de da, " chasing lobsters around a kitchen or singing "Seems Like Old Times" shakily, and endearingly.

WSJ: Keaton Turns Formula Into Feeling

This week a lacklustre domestic season was drawing to a tarnished close, as lawyers for Vasco da Gama, a Rio de Janeiro club, battled to bend the rules to ensure that Edmundo, their temperamental striker, could play in the second leg of the league-championship final, despite having been sent off in the first game on December 14th.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Primordialmente femenino, este arte se transmite de madres a hijas durante un periodo prolongado que da comienzo en la infancia.

UNESCO: SERVICIO DE PRENSA

The killings were carried out by Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, who had been a pupil at the Tasso da Silveira school.

BBC: Brazil mourns Rio school shooting victims

Only in two of Brazil's 27 states does Mr da Silva stand a chance of outpolling Mr Cardoso: in Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, the historical homes of trabalhismo (labourism), the ideology built by Getulio Vargas, Brazil's modernising mid-century dictator.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

This month, Rosewood San Miguel de Allende in Mexico launched a "Little Picassos" program that has children study the work of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso and then create their own pictures.

WSJ: Rosewood Hotels, Hyatt, Wequassett Resort Boost Amenities for Young Children

But that is what Patricia de Lille of South Africa's Independent Democrats (ID) received at a recent meeting of the Democratic Alliance (DA), the country's main opposition party, when she indicated that the two parties were close to clinching a formal agreement to co-operate at next year's municipal elections.

ECONOMIST: South Africa's opposition