Brazil's Lula minutes from missing arrest deadline

São Bernardo do Campo (Brazil) (AFP) - Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the controversial frontrunner in Brazil's October presidential election, lost a last-ditch appeal Friday just minutes before a deadline to surrender and start a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.Surrounded by thousands of cheering supporters in the metalworkers' union building in his hometown of Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Sao Paulo, 72-year-old Lula had less than half an hour left to comply with the order