A massive police raid in Rio de Janeiro favelas resulted in at least 119 deaths, sparking protests against excessive force and calls for th...

Rio de Janeiro experienced its deadliest police operation ever, with at least 64 people killed in a raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gan...

Rio de Janeiro witnessed its deadliest police raid on October 28. Forces targeted Comando Vermelho, Brazil's oldest criminal group, in Comp...

Rio de Janeiro's Mayor has introduced new regulations for its beaches, aiming to curb unauthorized vendors and noise. These rules, set to b...

In Rio de Janeiro, 15-year-old Kaylane Alves dos Santos, residing in the Complexo do Alemao favelas, dreams of playing for Brazil in the 20...

The full-on festival is back and the samba schools are racing to put the finishing touches on the sparkling costumes.

Many people around the world have watched with growing unease at the civil unrest in the U.S. after the latest in a series of police killin...

The overwhelming sense, in Britain and other parts of western Europe, is that the 2018 World Cup in Russia starting today is a disaster wai...

In nine of the bottom 10 cities, average net income fell, while income in eight of the top 10 cities rose as rental and mortgage costs decl...

With anger rising against the crime and slow police action against 33 men involved in the attack, the page urged people to take inspiration...

JR covered the Louvre's glass pyramid with a vast black-and-white photograph of the facade of the palace behind it.

With a sudden wave of crimes sweeping the city that will be hosting the biggest sporting spectacle between August 5 and 21, Brazil’s cultur...

While living conditions in most favelas, which balance precariously, are not as dire as India’s slums, life is still tough for residents.

What defines it is its dribbling, a spectacle of speed, evasion, rhythm & trickery passed on by generations of Brazil’s giants

Our “football player factory” uses as raw material the dreams of millions of children, who hope to match their heroes one day, be it in ter...

The Rio+20 gathering, the fourth major summit on sustainable development since 1972, is to be attended by 115 global leaders and 50,000 par...

As Slumdog Millionaire pockets its Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Drama) and moves into front place in the Oscar race, spare a thoug...