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A jail fire killed eight inmates who could not be rescued because the guard had left with the keys, Brazilian police said Wednesday.
Swarms of jellyfish stung nearly 300 swimmers looking to cool off from a heat wave in a southeastern beach city, Brazilian media reported Sunday.
Aloisio Lorscheider, one of Latin America's most influential cardinals, died Sunday after a lengthy hospital stay. He was 83.
Brazil's premier modern art museum had no insurance on paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari stolen in a brazen burglary, the museum's spokesman said on Saturday.
Brazil announced Friday it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal police to the Amazon River basin in a new effort to monitor and prevent deforestation in the environmentally sensitive region.
Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a car jack, it took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, worth millions of dollars, from Brazil's premier modern art museum.
Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed work to go ahead — at least temporarily — on a major river diversion, reportedly prompting a Roman Catholic bishop on a hunger strike against the project to pass out.
The U.S. couple accused of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in Brazil are hopeful they will be cleared and released, though Brazilian authorities were awarded more time to investigate them, their lawyer said Monday.
Brazil and Argentina successfully launched a rocket into space on Sunday in the first joint space mission by the two South American nations.
Brazil's Senate on Thursday refused to renew a financial transaction tax that fills the government's coffers, handing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a political defeat that could threaten his social programs for the poor.
France honored Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer with the Legion of Honor Wednesday, days before his 100th birthday.
A U.S. couple accused of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in southern Brazil deny the charges and don't understand why police arrested them earlier this week, one of their lawyers said Thursday.
A U.N. representative and three other people have been taken hostage by Indians, and federal officials were flying to the jungle on Monday to negotiate their release.
In the 1980s, scientists sounded the alarm: The Amazon was burning and would be gone by the end of the century.
Brazil announced a sharp drop in the rate of Amazon deforestation but environmentalists warned it could be a short-term trend masking the broader threat against the rainforest.
The president of Brazil's Senate resigned Tuesday while fighting allegations of corruption.
Brazil's government announced plans to put condom-dispensing machines in public schools to help teenagers reduce the spread of AIDS.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited a teeming hillside shantytown Friday to launch a multimillion-dollar program to build an outdoor elevator, sewage systems, improve roads and upgrade housing for slum residents.
A Catholic bishop on Tuesday began his second hunger strike in two years to protest a government project to divert river water to irrigate parts of the country's arid northeast.
A stadium where seven people died when a section of stands collapsed was recently criticized as the worst of Brazil's big soccer venues, and an official said Monday that past renovations did not deal with its structural integrity.
A teenage girl was locked up on theft charges in an Amazon jail for weeks with 21 men who she said would only let her eat in return for sex, according to authorities, setting off a national scandal over the treatment of women by Brazil's justice system.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's top congressional liaison is resigning because of a federal probe into a campaign finance scheme, the president's office said Thursday.
The body of a former Washington State basketball player was found in a dense thicket in central Brazil, two weeks after he was reported missing.
Police in Brazil have told the FBI they believe they have found the body of a former Washington State University basketball star who went missing earlier this month while playing in the South American nation.
Troubled Brazil striker Adriano crashed his car in Rio early on Monday but was unhurt, Brazilian media reported.
State-owned oil firm Petrobras found some 8 billion barrels of oil, but it's buried deep in the ocean.
Today, Oscar Niemeyer is held up as one of Brazil's greatest national treasures, and he seems as spry as ever.
As church lights dim across the US and Europe, Christian houses of worship are opening every day in Latin America.
When Leobino met soccer great Pele, the 57-year-old ailing man was just a kid again – running around the streets of Brazil, celebrating his country's World Cup triumph.
Officials at Brazil's top modern art museum where two prized paintings were stolen this week have admitted its collection is uninsured. The Sao Paulo Museum of Art also said there were major failures in the security system.
Thieves in Brazil have stolen two paintings said to be worth $100m (£50m) in a dawn raid on Latin America's most renowned museum.
AC Milan and Brazil playmaker Kaka holds the 2007 Ballon d'Or trophy as he arrives in Duomo's square in downtown Milan in this December 2, 2007 file photo.
In absolute numbers, Brazil, the region's biggest country, has more Pentecostals than anywhere else in Latin America. Over 10 percent of the population identified itself as Pentecostal in Brazil's 2000 census, double the figures from a decade earlier.
Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.
Última Instânica, a legal newswire on the UOL portal, reports:
Oscar Niemeyer, the last surviving founder of architecture's Modernist movement, turned 100 on Saturday. The grandfather of Brazilian architecture is a living legend, and plans to remain so for a while.
Nike has presented Brazil's home football kit for the 2008-09 season. Read a review over here and also order the kit if you like it.
Brazilian officials have become increasingly concerned about the treatment of women and minors in the nation's crowded prison system.
European leaders and environmental campaigners reacted angrily yesterday after the United States rejected guidelines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions intended to check global warming.
Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at what doubling the number of users will mean to the net. Last month hundreds of people descended on Rio de Janiero, Brazil, for the second annual Internet Governance Forum.
Police in Rio de Janeiro have retaken some slum neighborhoods from drug gangs, but, residents said, some police officers are more violent and dishonest than gang members.
Brazilian Catholic Bishop Luiz Cappio has entered the third week of his hunger strike against the diversion of water from the Sao Francisco river, in the arid northeast of the country, amid expressions of support.
Canada, Japan, the newly-elected Rudd Australian government and non-Kyoto signatory United States, are strongly opposing an international Bali consensus for 25-40% greenhouse pollution reduction by 2020.
European player of the year Kaká, of AC Milan and Brazil launched his new, classic football boots in Japan. The Adidas AdiPURE.
A vicious cycle of climate change and deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60% of the Amazon forest by 2030, says WWF.
Brazil's out-of-the-ordinary plans for a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) described to the Financial Times last week by Guido Mantega, finance minister, are part of a broader change of the government's economic development plans.
On December3, 2007, Miriam Leitão of the O Globo newspaper (Brazil), analyzing the Venezuelan referendum, runs a column stating that Hugo Chávez won the referendum because he manipulated the system. The problem being that Hugo Chávez did not win the referendum.
New information about killer bees questions their authenticity.
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