Approval rating for Brazil's Rousseff at 9 pc: poll

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating has skidded to a record nine percent, according to a poll released Wednesday amid anger over corruption, a stagnant economy and growing unemployment. It was the worst showing for Rousseff since she came to power in 2011 at the helm of the world's seventh largest economy, succeeding the wildly popular leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A survey released June 21 by pollster Datafolha put her approval rating at