Brazil, Japan win International Emmys for news (AP)

NEW YORK – Television networks in Brazil and Japan have won their first-ever International Emmy Awards in the news and current affairs categories.

TV Globo's "Jornal Nacional: War on Drugs," about the four-day raid in November 2010 by security forces to take control of a major drug dealer's stronghold in Rio de Janeiro, is the winner of the International Emmy for news.

Japan's NHK takes the award in the current affairs category for "Back from the Brink: Inside the Chilean Mine Disaster" about the 69-day ordeal of 33 miners trapped underground and their dramatic rescue last year.

The awards were presented on Monday by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York.

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Miss Brazil robbed at gunpoint in front of home (AP)

SAO PAULO – Miss Brazil has been robbed at gunpoint in front of her home.

The Miss Brazil pageant press office says that Debora Lyra was held up at gunpoint as she approached the entrance of her gated condo in Sao Paulo on Sunday.

Monday's statement says a well-dressed man with a pistol approached Lyra as she pulled up to her condominium. He took her purse, which contained her documents, cell phones and credit cards. He also took the car, which she had been given for winning the 2010 pageant.

She then tweeted in frustration: "For how long will these criminals keep doing this? I was just robbed at the entrance to my house."

Lyra will pass her title to the winner of the 2011 Miss Brazil pageant on July 23.

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