The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out in the cold.

Officials say floods and mudslides from heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least 14 people in the last month and driven tens of thousands from their homes.

A Brazilian court has freed an Amazon rancher accused of masterminding the 2005 murder of a U.S. nun and rain forest activist.

The monkey business is about to end for some Brazilian primates.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he won’t run for president again in 2014.

British pop band Simply Red has been forced to cancel a live performance in Brazil after the plane carrying the band’s lead singer made an emergency landing.

A Brazilian carnival queen famous for her skimpy attire is grabbing headlines again for painting President Barack Obama’s face on her body.

Brazil’s Embraer plane maker will cut its work force by about 20 percent because the global financial crisis has sharply reduced demand for its mid-sized passenger jets and executive jets, the company said Thursday.

The Carnival beauty famed for proving it’s possible to get too naked for Brazil’s samba parades is looking for the spotlight again _ by painting her body with an image of President Barack Obama.

The wife of R&B singer Usher was released from a Sao Paulo hospital after spending 11 days recovering from a cardiac arrest she suffered shortly before undergoing plastic surgery, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.