Walls are going up around the hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro, further dividing a city already separated between rich and poor. Beneath the gaze of the statue of...

Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the “Theater of the Oppressed,” died Saturday. He was...

Reports of debt slavery reached record numbers in Brazil last year, and most of the cases were connected to the nation’s booming sugarcane ethanol sector,...

Likening the global financial crisis to a sinking ship, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out once more Wednesday against rich nations for provoking...

Where’s Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil.

A man accused of rape kidnapped his daughter, stole a small plane and buzzed a major city before crashing into the parking lot of a mall, killing himself and his...

His meet and greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name.

Britain’s Prince Charles warned on Thursday that mankind has 100 months or less to save the planet from a climate-caused disaster.

A rancher fighting accusations of ordering the murder of a U.S. nun has now been charged with trying to fraudulently obtain the plot of Amazon rain forest she died...

A 9-year-old girl who was carrying twins, allegedly after being raped by her stepfather, underwent an abortion Wednesday despite complaints from Brazil’s Roman...

Samba school Salgueiro was crowned champion of Rio’s fiercely competitive Carnival parades on Wednesday, knocking off a powerhouse rival and overcoming a shooting...

Betto Almeida is the Mr. Lucky of Rio’s Carnival.

It’s a record that can only be broken in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil’s president is taking his nation’s anti-AIDS campaign into his own hands.

Brazil’s Carnival, long a symbol of youth, beauty and sex, added a mature twist Monday by giving two women in their 40s a chance to dance nearly nude at the head...

Samba schools competing for local glory vowed Sunday to throw a magnificent Carnival party _ complete with colorful floats, masked and face-painted dancers, and...

Rio’s mayor has a plan he believes can tame this chaotic city, which is both beloved and loathed for the cacophony of sins that reach their apex during Carnival,...

Rio’s mayor has a plan he believes can tame this chaotic city, which is both beloved and loathed for the cacophony of sins that reach their apex during Carnival.

Carnival is condom season in Brazil, where the government said Friday it will hand out 65 million free prophylactics to partiers this month.