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Fresh from an appearance on one of Brazil's most popular TV shows, the young woman whose short, pink dress got her kicked out of college is enjoying her newfound fame, yet has her eye on getting back to class.
Brushing back freshly dyed blond hair as she posed for pictures, the Brazilian woman whose short pink dress got her kicked out of college said Tuesday she's enjoying her newfound fame, but wants go back to school — with a security guard.
A plane that went missing over the Amazon made an emergency river landing in a remote part of the rain forest and nine of the 11 people aboard survived, the Brazilian air force said Friday.
They go by names like "Scooby" and "Big Baby" but carry the best weapons money can buy, are accused of torturing cops and even managed to shoot down a police helicopter.
Brazil's president feared Barack Obama's star power could have prevented Rio de Janeiro from landing the 2016 Olympics.
An Air France jet with 228 people on a flight to Paris vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after flying into towering thunderstorms and sending an automated message that the electrical system had failed. A vast search began Monday, but all aboard were feared killed.
Brazilian military pilots spotted an airplane seat, an orange buoy, and other debris and signs of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday as they hunted for a missing Air France jet that carried 228 people.
Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web site forum that authorities initially suspected could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night.
Across the Amazon basin, river dwellers are adding new floors to their stilt houses, trying to stay above rising floodwaters that have killed 48 people and left 405,000 homeless.
Latin American nations may be slipping into recession and the Caribbean's tourism lifeblood may be drying up, but the region's economic crisis has been overshadowed by the political developments at a summit of the hemisphere's leaders.
President Barack Obama says he came to a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders to listen and learn about a region he'd never visited. On Saturday, Hugo Chavez gave him some reading material that the Venezuelan president thinks will help.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez was greeted like a rock star by onlookers when he arrived at a 34-nation summit — but only because Barack Obama had slipped through a back door.
A year ago, Brazil's breadbasket saw what resembled a gold rush as farmers scrambled to increase acreage amid record demand for soy. Today, much of the region is on its knees, victim of a double whammy of a financial crisis and a punishing drought.
Brazil's Embraer plane maker will cut its work force by about 20 percent because the global financial crisis has sharply reduced demand for its mid-sized passenger jets and executive jets, the company said Thursday.
An American who has waged a four-year custody battle for his son in Brazil reached an agreement Friday to visit the 8-year-old boy.
Brazilian police killed at least 10 suspects — including two teenage boys — during operations against drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro early Wednesday.
The slowing global economy has prompted Brazil's largest miner and China's second-biggest steelmaker to cancel plans for a $5 billion steel slab plant in southern Brazil, costing thousands of jobs, the Brazilian miner said Friday.
A leftist fugitive who wrote police thrillers while evading a life sentence for political slayings has won refugee status in Brazil, prompting Italy's government and victims of terrorism to express outrage on Wednesday.
Brazil's leading state-owned bank said Friday it will pay 4.2 billion reals ($1.8 billion) for a stake in the banking unit of one of the nation's biggest conglomerates to help ease credit in Latin America's largest economy.
Brazil's central bank has left a key interest rate unchanged at 13.75 percent.
Tourists who go abroad to abuse children should face the prospect of prosecution in their home countries if they are caught having sex with kids in nations with lax penalties, participants at a U.N.-backed conference concluded Friday.
Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth.
Expansion of vast sugarcane plantations across Brazil to meet growing worldwide demand for ethanol won't harm the Amazon, a top Brazilian official said Monday.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde on Monday reiterated her nation's position that big emerging nation economies should be allowed to join the powerful Group of Seven industrialized nations forum that has a large say in global economic policy.
Economic officials from 20 leading nations called Sunday for increased government spending to boost the troubled global economy and said developing countries deserve a prominent role in talks to overhaul the world financial system.
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