A monthly party sees crowds of up to 50 000 letting their hair down in São Paulo and other cities
The election of Brazil’s right-wing president has let loose his followers’ queerphobia
A passionate Brazilian football fan has drawn nationwide attention for narrating her local team’s football matches live to her blind and autistic son
Despite a plea from the UN, the country’s court ruled that Lula da Silva can’t run in the presidential elections
Despite being behind bars, Lula leads the voting intentions of a third of the electorate, according to polls
Brazil might have all the trappings of a new place, but the spectre of slavery makes it feel familiar
Sao Paulo’s infernal traffic jams have sparked a new app that opens the sky to commuters: Voom, a helicopter taxi service.
The Minhocão highway’s closure has given a semblance of peace and quiet to central São Paulo.
Paulistanos are quickly learning to use water wisely as the reality of the drought hits them.
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.
Three days before the city hosts the World Cup kick-off, protesters set fire to garbage piles, prompting police to fire stun grenades and tear gas.
Glamour and squalor coexist uneasily here, but one thing unites rich and poor: everyone’s furious about Fifa World Cup Brazil.
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Four people died after a carnival float in the Santos caught fire, striking a sombre tone for the final day of exuberant carnival celebrations.
Officials and authorities in São Paulo have raised concerns over the death of a soccer supporter in Brazil and think it might increase fan violence.
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/ 10 September 2008
The boom in biofuel production in Latin America, particularly Brazil, is benefiting corporations but not local people, said environmentalists.
São Paulo puts on a display of Japanese culture for visiting Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito.
An earthquake measuring 5,2 on the Richter scale shook southern Brazil overnight, scaring many but causing no significant damage or casualties, officials and media said. It was the strongest temblor to hit the region in a century, the news group Globo said. The epicentre was 270km off Brazil’s south-east coast.
A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing on Monday off the southern coast of Brazil. Rescuers in helicopters and small fishing boats were searching off the coast of Santa Catarina state, where pieces of balloons were found.
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/ 5 November 2007
Investigators on Monday were going through the charred debris of a Learjet that crashed in São Paulo at the weekend, killing the pilot and co-pilot and six members of a family in a house it hit. The twin-engined plane, flying a taxi service from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, came down on Sunday just after take-off.
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/ 22 October 2007
The McLaren Mercedes-Benz Formula One team said on Sunday night they were ready to appeal against a stewards’ decision at the Brazilian Grand Prix, keeping alive Briton Lewis Hamilton’s title dream. The announcement followed the stewards’ decision not to punish the BMW Sauber and Williams teams for using allegedly irregular fuel.
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/ 18 October 2007
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton this week rested at his hotel ahead of the weekend’s Formula One world title showdown, knowing he will need all his energy and focus to emerge triumphant from a three-way battle for glory. As the sprawling city of São Paulo buzzed with anticipation, the 22-year-old Briton and his main rival, Fernando Alonso, kept a low profile.
Up to a million faithful are expected to throng a São Paulo park as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass to canonise Brazil’s first saint, a Franciscan monk still credited with miracle cures nearly 200 years after his death. The canonisation Mass follows close on the heels of a rally late on Thursday.
São Paulo state prosecutors on Wednesday denounced what they called degrading working conditions at facilities where ethanol is made. Brazil is a global pioneer in the alternative fuel. In a report on five plants in the Marilia region of the state, labour prosecutors found that 40% of sugar-cane cutters were victims of bad treatment.
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/ 14 January 2007
Searchers dug through tonnes of rubble on Saturday in search of as many as eight people believed buried by a construction accident at a commuter rail tunnel in South America’s biggest city, São Paulo. Officials said a passenger bus was buried at the bottom of a 40m-deep pit dug for an underground railway station.
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/ 24 October 2006
Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has played down his chances of matching the achievements of the retired Michael Schumacher. The 25-year-old Spaniard reclaimed his crown at the Brazilian Grand Prix, and in so doing, ended Schumacher’s bid to add to his record of seven drivers’ championships.
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/ 22 October 2006
Fernando Alonso celebrated clinching his second drivers’ world title in his final race for Renault on Sunday with a rich tribute to his team and retiring seven-times champion Michael Schumacher. The 25-year-old Spaniard finished second behind victorious home-city hero Felipe Massa in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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/ 19 October 2006
And then there was one. One race, this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, the final race of the Formula One season to decide the drivers’ title between Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher. One race to determine the team crown between Renault and Ferrari. And one last race in Schumacher’s career.
Police shot dead at least 22 people on Wednesday in an iron-fisted crackdown against a powerful criminal gang blamed for lethal attacks in São Paulo as Brazil’s president criticised local authorities for refusing federal assistance. The clashes claimed the lives of 40 police and four members of the public, and 18 prisoners have died in prison riots blamed on the PCC gang.
Police shot dead at least 18 assailants early on Wednesday, media reported, in the latest clashes in a five-day explosion of gang violence in São Paulo that has claimed about 150 lives. The city has been gripped by fear since a powerful gang launched attacks on police stations, banks and buses, as well as prison uprisings.
South American nations will have to choose whether they want continental unity or individual trade agreements with the United States — but not both, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said on Wednesday. ”You either have one or the other … they’re like oil and water,” Chávez said.
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/ 11 October 2005
Four Brazilian cities in the Amazon jungle state of Amazonas have been declared disaster areas as the worst drought in 60 years dries up rivers that thousands of families depend on to receive food and medicine, authorities said on Monday. In Manaquiri, the hardest hit of the four cities, small rivers have all but disappeared.
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/ 26 September 2005
The new champion in formula one wears blue and yellow, not red. He is young, not old. He has one title, not seven. Next year, Alonso’s blue and yellow Renault will wear the number one instead of Michael Schumacher’s red Ferrari, which has owned it for the past five years and two other times with Benetton.