More than 2,600 barrels of oil may have spilled into the Atlantic ocean because of a leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site, Brazil's environmental protection agency said.

Officials think 200 to 3

Crack police forces launched a major assault early on Sunday to to wrest control of Rio's biggest favela from drug traffickers who had been in control for the past 30 years.

The long anticipated oper

A 14-year-old Brazilian girl says she was raped by multiple men at a prison in the Amazonian state of Para.

Para's governor suspended the warden and 20 guards at the Santa Izabel Penal Colony pending

A gang of drug traffickers is inserting pictures of late British singer Amy Winehouse in their bags of cocaine to improve sales, the Brazilian police said on Tuesday.

Brazil’s defence minister Nelson Jobim has stepped down and will be replaced by former foreign minister Celso Amorim, the President’s Office said.

A Brazilian woman who ate a dish of savory meatballs with tomato sauce only to discover a condom in the tomato can, will be awarded $5,000 in damage, the Globo news website reported on Wednesday.

The

A Brazilian woman recognised as the oldest person in the world has died at the age of 114, local media reported.

A Brazilian woman recognized as the oldest person in the world has died at the age of 114, local media reported on Tuesday.

Maria Gomes Valentim was certified in May as the world's oldest person, edg

Isolina Campos has set out to prove it's never too late to learn to read and write.

Campos turned 100 on May 25, and decided to become an example to others by attending class in Londrina, a city in s

Brazilian authorities say that a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and at least 13 people are dead.

The gunman is among them, though it is not clear if he shot himself or