Tom Phillips

But the Pentagon is insisting its naval provocation did not breach any international maritime laws.

The horrors of Japanese camps are being told but nothing is being said of what followed.

The detention of Wang Yu was the opening salvo in an unprecedented crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers.

Welcome to Brazil’s first reality show to delve into the lives of the country’s growing class of super-rich.

Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos the Jackal faces fresh charges over 1980s bomb attacks, but jail has only strengthened his beliefs, his brother says.

A highly addictive new drug has the potential to become a ‘weapon of mass destruction,’ writes <b>Tom Phillips</b>.

Town planners are hoping to set a world example.

Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under renewed pressure to bulletproof up to 200 schools in conflict-stricken areas, after an 11-year-old boy was kil

Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under pressure to bulletproof schools in conflict-stricken areas, after a boy was killed by a stray bullet.

New policing initiatives have made Rio de Janeiro a safer place, but the ‘pacification’ has been brutal.

Sitting in his air-conditioned office in Guaranta do Norte, a remote agricultural town on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, local mayor José Humberto Macedo looked a contented…

Veteran Amazon pilots such as Fernando Galvao Bezerra are hard men to shock. During 20 years in aviation Bezerra (45) has ferried prostitutes and wildcat miners to remote,…

Plans for a global fund to help contain rainforest destruction and slash carbon emissions will be unveiled next month by the Brazilian government. The project, by which rich…