Brazil elects 1st woman president

Governing partycandidate Dilma Rousseff has been elected Brazil's president.

The country's Supreme Electoral Court said returns from Sunday's election have made Rousseff the successor to her political mentor, the hugely popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Rousseff, 62, isa career civil servant who has never held an elected office.

She will become the first woman elected president in Brazil when she takes office on Jan. 1.