Control over cocaine trafficking routes and markets in Brazil and to the world lies behind the mass killings.
A small region in Brazil celebrated a football fairy tale a week ago, but are now grieving 71 dead
The crash involving a plane carrying the Brazilian football team marked the latest in a long line of such incidents that have struck the sport.
It’s hard not to admire the miscreants who have taken faking it to the next level.
Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarsed Latin America’s biggest country.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has apologised to people of Brazil.
Residents’ anger about the economic recession and political ineptitude can’t be kept away from the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Brazil’s leader has called the budget approval a ‘beautiful victory’ for planned austerity measures
The beleagured Workers’ Party believes people will tire quickly of the opposition leaders.
Brazilians want the president to resign for trying to help her predecessor avoid corruption charges.
Six months before Rio de Janeiro hosts the next Olympics, the country is struggling with a Zika epidemic and political and economic woes
A Brazilian graduate has been thrust into the spotlight after writing a book about living with microcephaly
The Minhocão highway’s closure has given a semblance of peace and quiet to central São Paulo.
The Brazilian economy is in a downward spiral, and some analysts see worrying parallels in South Africa.
In a nation notorious for its prisons, a bid to lower the age of criminal liability has provoked a storm.
It is vital to get poorer children to stay at school all day: not only do they get free meals, they’re also kept away from violence and criminality.
The Brazilian team is playing around the world. Not necessarily in the players’ best interest.
Dilma Rousseff goes into her second term facing greater challenges than her first time around.
Dilma Rousseff’s re-election has left Brazil divided – half being grateful for gains against poverty, while the other criticised economic stagnation.
A Twitter feed is exposing how millions of Brazilian domestic workers are treated as an underclass. But new laws are in the offing to protect them.
A second wave of reforms is needed to sustain the success of India, Brazil and SA.
The favelas are served by teams of community workers, who are the doctors’ eyes and ears.
Following Brazil’s 3-0 defeat by The Netherlands at the World Cup, manager Luiz Felipe Scolari was fired, say reports.
Brazilian defender Dante’s personal journey through hell in Belo Horizonte, as Germany routed Brazil 7-1, is steeped in poetry, writes Adrian Ephraim.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took responsibility for Germany’s 7-1 thrashing of his star-studded side that took him to rock bottom.
Brazil’s loss of their star player has dented their chances of winning a record sixth World Cup as they go on to face Germany in the semifinals.
Lionel Messi rescued Argentina once more to help sink Switzerland as the United States’s fairytale World Cup run came to an end against Belgium.
Nervous Brazil beat Chile 3-2 on penalties to reach the World Cup quarter-finals after an epic battle that left Neymar and his teammates in tears.
A stunning from Lionel Messi spared Argentina’s blushes as they qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup with a hard fought 1-0 win over Iran.
Youngsters from a slum in Sao Paulo have thrown down a World Cup gauntlet: they have challenged the winners to play a match against them.
Brazil’s failure to score against Mexico in their second Group A match has dredged up long-standing concerns about a lack of mobility in the team.
Tuesday night’s Fifa World Cup matches produced more drama after Mexico held Brazil to a 0-all draw, and South Korea keeping Russia at 1-1.