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Brazil's airport authority vowed Thursday to spend about US$2.5 billion to overhaul the country's largest airports, which critics warn are unprepared to handle millions of additional travelers expected during ...

Late into the night, students diligently rehearse exam questions at dozens of schools in downtown Brasilia that offer people the chance for a better, more prosperous life -- that of a Brazilian bureaucrat.

An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.

As the globe warms, water from wetlands is likely to evaporate, while rising sea levels could change wetlands' salinity or completely inundate them.

SAO PAULO, Brazil : One of Brazil's largest paper and pulp companies says it will invest U$6.6 billion over the next seven years to increase its output.

The Project is currently held by Mineracao Rio Tocantins Ltda. which, in turn, is jointly owned by GKM and Verena .

The discovery of hundreds of young penguins washing up along the Brazilian shoreline over the past month has sparked a scientific mystery over what may have led the birds thousands of miles astray.

Candlelight dinner? Forget the wine. Think the way to your heart's desire is through her sweet tooth? Don't overdo the liquor-filled chocolates.

A Brazilian government laboratory said Monday it will begin producing child-sized doses of a drug commonly used to treat Chagas disease, which kills thousands of people each year across the Americas.

Washington/Rio de Janeiro - Worries about the rapid disappearance of the world's wetlands and its potential effect on global warming tops the agenda of 700 world experts who meet starting Monday in Cuiaba, ...

The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.

Australia's Alumina has raised the estimated costs of its two Brazilian aluminium joint ventures, blaming the continued appreciation of the Brazilian real against the US dollar and higher material and ...

Some pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident Saturday when Brazil's foreign minister said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi ...

Brazilian actress and comedian Dercy Goncalves, known for her vulgar wit and scandalous behavior, has died. She was 101.

Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Sao Lucas says Goncalves died Saturday of respiratory problems after being hospitalized the same day with pneumonia.

Goncalves was known for speaking her mind, often peppering her conversation with obscenities. In 1991, she shocked Brazil by parading topless on a Carnival float. She was 84 at the time.

Goncalves kept working late in life and made several TV appearances after turning 100.

Moves around the world to drain marshes and other wetlands to make space for farming could be hastening climate change, scientists gathering in Brazil from Monday will be hearing.

Sao Paulo, Brazil- Police have arrested a suspect in the theft of two Pablo Picasso prints from a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works, police and a museum official said Saturday.

More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection ...

After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William ...

More than 130 Brazilian judges have criticised the Supreme Court for ordering the release of Daniel Dantas, a prominent banker who is facing corruption allegations.

A teenaged boy has confessed to 13 murders in Brazil's southeastern state of Espirito Santo, the "Folha de Sao Paulo" newspaper reported Thursday.