[04:01.42]Perhaps any fears he may have harbored had been quelled by Brazil’s Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo who was sitting alongside the head of world football.
[04:09.47]But Brazil has delivered only two of the six venues promised for this year’s Confederation’s Cup address rehearsal one year ahead of the World Cup.
[04:17.58]The deadline to complete Rio’s iconic Maracana Stadium has been repeatedly put back.
[04:22.86]The Cuban government has announced that its doctors will get extra for nightshifts for the first time in 50 years.
[04:29.26]President Raul Castro admitted last year that doctors are badly paid earning an average 20 dollars a month.
[04:35.31]They will now get one extra dollar for the 12-hour night period.
[04:38.85]A collection of ten dresses worn by Diana Princess of Wales have been sold at auction for 1.2 million dollars 16 years after her death.
[04:46.77]The highlight was a navy velvet ball gown worn by Diana when she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985.
[04:53.46]It went to a British collector who bought it as a surprised present for his wife.
[04:57.65]BBC News
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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.
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Parliament in Cyprus has rejected an international bailout package which would have imposed a one-off tax on savings. Hundreds of protesters outside parliament cheered the result. Not a single MP voted for the deal despite an amendment sparing small savers. Mark Lowen is in Nicosia.