South America News

Tuchinha was once a drug lord in Rio de Janeiro's Mangueira favela. But today he is helping youngsters in this Brazilian city turn their lives around and leave behind crime, prison and the likelihood of an early death.

When we recently received the official agenda for Pope Francis' July trip to Rio de Janeiro, we went straight out to photograph the sites he will visit.

RIO DE JANEIRO: One person was killed in a spectacular fire that broke out in a fuel depot on the northern edge of Rio de Janeiro and spread to nearby homes, officials said.

A man ascends by bungee cords from a large former well during a traditional ceremony in the village of Ndande, Senegal, on May 19.

U.S. officials are equally excited, saying U.S. businesses have improved their sales to the South American country by 20 percent.

Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums early Thursday, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics.

Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums early Thursday, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics.

Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas.

Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians.

A massive fire broke out Thursday at a fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, sending bright orange flames leaping high into the air and thick black smoking rolling upward and enveloping the area.

George Ayers is a Canadian born in October 1944; He and his wife quit their jobs in 1976 and traveled for the next two years; Their journey took them across Canada, down through Mexico and Central America and then through South America; They visited Machu Picchu, Nazca, hitchhiked down the Amazon, partied in Rio, worked their way to Ushuaia and ... (more)

House of the Day : At first glance, this home looks like another stately 19th-century Brooklyn home, but it was completed less than a decade ago as a modern mansion with a historic feel.

The IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium technical program always offers a cornucopia of sessions, workshops, courses, competitions, and other means to learn about the latest technologies, techniques, and applications in RF/microwave design.

The citizen initiative "14 million- Life, family and liberty" " [es], which opposes the free distribution of the day-after pill and other forms of family planning policy, has caused controversy among Ecuadorians.

The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the European Union as a model and aims to further open their trade with Asia.

Argentines in the hometown of former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla are upset at the prospect that he may be buried there.

In this March 24, 1977 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla is seen commemorating the first anniversary of the military coup in Asuncion, Argentina.

Few places in the world provoke wonder like Patagonia . The expanse of land, carved by the Andes Mountain Range and reaching down to the end of the earth, stretches between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and across Argentina and Chile.

The core of the latest Venezuelan crisis is not the rumored political division within the late President Hugo Chavez's party, nor the allegations of fraud in the last elections.

Last week, scientists published a study in the journal PNAS that warned that deforestation in the Amazon could significantly decrease the power output of hydroelectric dams, which are a major source of energy in the region.