Santa Catarina’s military fire brigade.

In a statement issued by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government welcomed the country into the group, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian Catholic worshippers laid down an eco-friendly carpet in front of the world-famous Christ the ...

If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold by hawkers, chairs sprawled across the sand.

A fiction feature take on the life of Flora Maria Blumer de Toledo (1833-1892), freed from slavery in 1881 by U.S. Protestant ... just north of Rio de Janeiro, which is inexorably being swallowed ...

“It’s difficult to imagine Rio de Janeiro without bossa nova, without samba on the beach,” said Julio Trindade, who works as a DJ in the kiosks. “While the world sings the Girl from ...

Chile’s state-run mining body ENAMI has tapped Rio Tinto for a 51% share of the Altoandinos lithium project, it said on Thursday, giving the global miner its second major venture in Chile for ...

Extreme weather in Rio de Janeiro is getting worse: recent years have brought record-breaking heat and rainfall to Brazil’s second-largest city, intensifying the risk of floods and landslides ...

Brazilian police on Sunday said they thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga's free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, in ...

Police in Brazil say they thwarted a plot to detonate a bomb at Lady Gaga's historic concert in Rio de Janeiro, a free event that drew more than two million attendees to Copacabana Beach on Saturday.

Lady Gaga’s record-breaking concert in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday was targeted with a bomb plot by a hate group posing as “Little Monsters” fans, who planned to attack with IEDs and Molotov ...

Brazilian police said on May 4 that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga's historic concert that drew more than 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 3.