BRAZILIAN BAURU

BUSES SET ABLAZE AFTER DEFEAT
Several buses were set on fire and an electronics store was looted in Sao Paulo late Tuesday following Brazil's crushing World Cup defeat to Germany, police said.
Police did not give a figure but Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper said on its website that some 20 buses were torched in a garage where unused vehicles were stored.
Another three buses were set ablaze in other parts of the mega-city.
Police did not confirm whether the fires were linked to Brazil's 7-1 defeat to Germany in the semifinal, which knocked the national team out of the World Cup it is hosting.
"This is under investigation," a state militarized police spokesman told AFP.
Looters ransacked an electronics store in the east of the city.
Buses are often burned by robbers or as a form of protest in Brazil.

SOCIAL MEDIA RECORDS SMASHED
Brazil's record defeat at the hands of Germany in the World Cup semifinal sent social networks into overdrive, with Twitter and Facebook beating previous marks of activity for sporting events.
A total of 35.6 million tweets were sent during the match on Tuesday that saw the Germans thrash Brazil 7-1 -- the host nation's worst loss in its 100-year footballing history.
The previous mark was set at the Super Bowl in February, which saw nearly 25 million comments unfurl on Twitter, the social network told AFP.
Facebook, meanwhile, saw more than 200 million posts, shares, comments and likes during the match, involving some 66 million people -- an absolute record.
On both platforms, the fifth German goal by Sami Khedira just 29 minutes into the match sparked the most comments and reactions.
On Twitter, it generated more than 580,000 tweets in the space of a minute.
But generally, the jaw-dropping match inspired a deluge of biting comments by netizens shocked that a team deprived of its injured star player Neymar could suffer such a thrashing.
"Brazil has Neymar, Argentina has Messi, Portugal has Ronaldo but Germany has a team," one widely retweeted comment said.
Up until now in the World Cup, the nail-biting game between Brazil and Chile that went to extra time and saw the hosts scrape through in a penalty shoot-out had held the Twitter record with 16.3 million tweets.

WIN DRAWS RECORD TV AUDIENCE
A record 32.6 million TV viewers in Germany watched the national side's 7-1 World Cup record victory over Brazil, the highest ever figure in the country, a specialist media site said Wednesday.
The spectacular match, which saw Germany reach Sunday's World Cup final, was broadcast on ZDF public TV from 10:00 pm local time Tuesday in the country of about 80 million people.
The audience figure topped the previous record set in 2010 when 31.1 million fans watched Germany lose to Spain in the World Cup semifinal in South Africa, said the Media site.