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Brazil bids goodbye to Lula, hello to first female president

BRASILIA - Brazil's hugely popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva steps down Saturday in a lavish ceremony ushering in his successor and protegee, Dilma Rousseff. Her ascension will give Latin America's biggest economy its first-ever female president.
It is certain to be an emotional farewell for Lula, a one-time shoeshine boy and factory metalworker who proved it was possible in his country to go from poverty to the ultimate position of power. He was constitutionally barred

Female suicide bomber kills 46 in Bajaur

PESHAWAR - At least 46 people were killed and more than 80 injured when a burqa-clad female suicide bomber blew herself up near the World Food Programme (WFP) distribution centre in Khar, headquarters of Bajaur Agency, on Saturday.
The deceased included three personnel of Bajaur Levies Forces. Officials said 61 of the injured were admitted to various hospitals in the area, while 30 were airlifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
According to details, the high-intensity

Imagining the female through Mughal miniature

LAHORE: The Revivers Galleria, in Gulberg, saw the vividness of colours when Nisar Ahmed's paintings adorned its walls. 'Satrangi', which was the title of the art exhibition was a collection of paintings - oil and acrylic on canvas - producing one of the loudest, most colourful effects, each layer resonating the power and opulence of his brush.
In each work there is a woman shown only till her waist, and sometimes lower, revealing a bare midriff, with a skirt underneath her