Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from hospital after undergoing surgery for a brain haemorrhage. "He is stable, walking, eating and speaking normally. He had a very good post-operative phase,

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Sunday after undergoing surgery to stop a brain bleed.

Doctors discharged Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a Sao Paulo hospital on Sunday, after a pair of emergency surgeries last week to treat and prevent bleeding in his head. The 79-year-old leftist leader also spoke publicly for the first time at a hospital press conference,