Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil News

Passengers leapt to the aid of the pilot of a Brazilian jet, subduing an attacker on a flight from Montevideo to Sao Paulo, a officials said Sunday.

RIO DE JANEIRO: Petrobras cut investment in 2011 for the first time in eight years as Brazil's state-run energy company struggled to buy the equipment, technology and services needed to carry out a $225 billion expansion plan and exploit one of the world's most promising offshore oil frontiers.A Petrobras invested 72.5 billion reais , a 5.1 percent ... (more)

The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man who some passengers said was wearing a TAM identification badge got into the cockpit because the door was open.

The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man entered the cockpit an hour into the flight.

The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man entered the cockpit an hour into the flight.

She may be five months pregnant with her second child, but model Alessandra Ambrosio looked as glamorous as ever in her native Brazil yesterday.

One of the first things I learned on my first trip to Brazil, in 1996, was how to make a phone call.

Talking about the weather may be mere elevator chit-chat but, come rain or shine, there is no honest conversation that does not make some reference to the weather.

This first part of February has a fairly full list of "problem" topics when it comes to crop weather--either regarding what is going on, the impact from recent trends, or forecast conditions.

Continued stressful southern Brazil conditions, a drier trend for Argentina, continued bitter cold conditions in Europe, renewed cold wave concerns in Ukraine, a decent chance for precipitation next week over the Southern Plains, and a dry and cold pattern in the western Midwest and Northern Plains are the main weather items for the commodity ... (more)

"If you go to fight a fire and the hose behind you fails, that can be devastating for all parties involved," he said.

Every two years, the city of Caxias do Sul, 120 km south from Porto Alegre , in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, prepares itself for the Festa da Uva .

NJC volleyball players Kristen Schumacher , a sophomore from Sterling, and Carolina Berge, a sophomore from Porto Alegre, Brazil, get ready to show a grill and a Bronco knitted throw for the Hospice Auction on Saturday night.

From January 24-29, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre was again the staging ground for the World Social Forum , an annual international gathering of anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist activists.

February 3, 2012. Porto Alegre, Brazil. In a journalism exchange among international independent media outlets, your Chicago Examiner political reporter had the pleasure to work with fellow independent journalists from extreme southern Brazil this week.

Soybeans in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul are going into the key flowering and pod-filling stages in a debilitated state and desperately need good rains over the next month, state farm researchers said.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Feb 2, 2012 - Traditional social movements of homeless and landless people have for years been organising occupations as a pressure tactic.

Stephen Messenger captured these amazing pictures of a street in Brazil with his iPhone 4S.

Maria das Gracas Foster, the first woman named to run one of the world's top five oil companies, will take over the industry's largest investment plan with Petroleo Brasileiro SA's $225 billion proposal to more than double its output by the end of the decade.

Reuters Diary of Time Changes Around the World; *** DATE AS PER GMT *** SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 FIJI - Clocks go back by one hour to GMT+12 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 BRAZIL - Clocks go back by one hour to GMT-3 in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador and GMT-4 in Campo Grande.