Brazil Museum Fire: Millions of Items Destroyed
Officials in Brazil have blamed a lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country's National Museum.
Details of the devastating fire in Brazil's National Museum; most of the museum's twenty million items have gone up in flames.
Also today an amazing story of two Indian female pilots who are planning to circumnavigate the globe in 90 days in a light sports aircraft. And, two Malaysian women have been caned six times for having sex with each other in violation of Islamic laws.
(Photo:Civil servants of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro crying. Credit: Antonio Lacerda/EPA)
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