Rio de Janeiro, Brazil News

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives Monday in Brazil on a Latin American and African tour amid U.S. and domestic criticism that, by playing host, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is squandering his newfound global influence.

Seven bulls being used on the set of a film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have broken free in Spain and slightly injured two people.

About 500 people gathered Sunday for the protest at Rio de Janeiro 's Ipanema Beach.

London, Nov 21 : Madonna insisted on wearing a bullet proof vest during her visit to a Rio de Janeiro slum even as she was accompanied by a squad of bodyguards.

French tyre maker Michelin will build a new factory in Brazil at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, the company's chief executive Michel Rollier told a newspaper Saturday.

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See the city's beautiful landscape that helped it win the 2016 Olympic bid. Image 1 of 9 A few nice shots here.

Rio de Janeiro is known for its lavish party around February, but with summer approaching in the southern hemisphere there will be plenty to do at the beach before Carnival gets here.

Spanish oil group Repsol expects to invest $12 billion in oil exploration activities in Brazil in the next 10 years, including in newly discovered "subsalt" areas, its president said on Saturday.

Actor Danny Glover arrives at the reading of 'The World Of Nick Adams' to honor Paul Newman held at Davies Symphony Hall on October 27, 2008 in San Francisco, California.

Brazil says it will voluntarily reduce carbon emissions by 36.1 percent to 38.9 percent by 2020.

SAO PAULO - 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 to go back to school - with a security guard.

LETHAL Weapon co-star Danny Glover is to marry his longtime Brazilian girlfriend in a December, he told a Rio de Janeiro film festival this week, according to the O Globo newspaper.

BBC Worldwide said Helen Jurado has been promoted to vice president, Sales & Distribution, Latin America, oveseeing multi-platform sales efforts of 50,000-plus hours of programming, as well as digital media and home entertainment in the region.

Pacifica Performances presents Celia Malheiros, Saturday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m., at Mildred Owen Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural.

Sao Paulo, Nov 15 : US pop star Madonna broke into tears when Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista announced that he would donate $7 million for her welfare projects, a media report said.

Models walk the runway at Paris' Ethical Fashion Show in October 2007. It's vegan, eco-friendly, fair-trade, made locally - and proceeds help impoverished children! The latest do-gooder fashion companies are certainly setting some high standards.

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Revellers party during the Gay Costume Ball, one of the last activities of the Carnival season, inside the Scala Club in Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 2007.[Agencies] In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus.