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Renowned rain forest defender Marina Silva resigned as Brazil's environment minister on Tuesday, saying she lacked the necessary political support to protect the Amazon.
Brazilian star Ronaldo says he's sorry, embarrassed and ashamed about his highly publicized encounter a week ago with three cross-dressing prostitutes, calling it the biggest mistake of his life.
An Amazon farmer who received death threats after reporting illegal logging to authorities was shot to death as he left his house, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
The father and stepmother of a 5-year-old girl allegedly thrown from a sixth-floor apartment window were arrested Friday, Brazilian police said.
Brazilian police said Thursday that charges have been filed against a businesswoman who claims she was "educating" a 12-year-old girl by allegedly torturing and chaining her to an iron staircase.
Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba group to the championship.
The president of Brazil's Senate resigned Tuesday while fighting allegations of corruption.
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 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.
Three women lie naked on a beach, their bodies a succession of curves and planes framed by foaming surf. The poster hangs over the desk of architect Oscar Niemeyer and is a tribute to his inspiration: the beauty of women and nature.
A public prosecutor has appealed a court's decision to allow South America's Live Earth concert to go ahead as planned, arguing that police can not guarantee the safety of the 700,000 people expected to attend the open-air show on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.
The leader of Brazil's senate accepted payoffs from a leading construction company, a major newsweekly said in a report that widens a corruption scandal reaching into the inner circle of Brazil's government.
For as long as anyone can remember, the cracked asphalt soccer field in the Roquete Pinto slum was off-limits to children — "reserved" by gangs selling marijuana and cocaine. Then, a few months ago, a mysterious squad of beefy men with submachine guns started patrolling on foot, and the drug dealers disappeared.
After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance — something he's already done three times before.
Brazilian police arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest and were searching for 19 others, including environmental protection agents, the environment minister said.
The two American pilots of an executive jet involved in a deadly high-altitude collision with a Brazilian airliner have denied they turned off the transponder that signaled their location, authorities said.
A Brazilian court on Tuesday ordered police to seize the passports of two American pilots whose executive jet clipped a commercial plane in midair last week, causing it to crash in the Amazon jungle and kill 155 people, a spokeswoman said.
Authorities said Sunday there were no survivors among the 155 people aboard the Brazilian jetliner that crashed deep in the Amazon jungle in the nation's worst air disaster, as rescue workers began pulling bodies out of the twisted wreckage.
Cars bound for Germany and Argentina line the docks, helping to boost Brazil's booming trade surplus. The country is winning praise from lenders and investors, and its currency is beating up on the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, a corruption scandal is rocking the government.
Brazil has inaugurated a uranium enrichment center capable of producing nuclear fuel for the South American country's power plants.
As Iran faces international pressure over developing the raw material for nuclear weapons, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own uranium-enrichment center, capable of producing exactly the same fuel.
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