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The married couple who lead one of Brazil's largest evangelical churches returned home Saturday to cries of joy from followers after serving a two-year sentence in the United States on money smuggling charges.
Israel's foreign minister ran into controversy on the first day of a Latin American trip Tuesday when an official of Brazil's ruling party reportedly called him a "fascist."
An autopsy indicates former boxing champion Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide, been accidentally killed or murdered, according to a Brazilian newspaper that said it obtained a copy of the coroner's initial findings.
Prison guards foiled a new attempt to smuggle a cell phone into a Brazilian prison by carrier pigeon — this one wearing a tiny backpack — and said Friday that the practice is becoming almost commonplace.
A federal judge has ruled that a 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle must remain with his Brazilian stepfather until a final ruling is issued on the boy's permanent custody, local news media reported Saturday.
Medical examiners have identified the first 11 of 50 bodies recovered from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic three weeks ago, officials said Sunday.
A suspected al-Qaida member has been taken into custody by Brazilian authorities in a case shrouded in secrecy, police said Tuesday.
A plot to smuggle cellular phones into a prison yard using a remote-control model helicopter has been foiled after Brazilian police discovered the high-tech toy in the trunk of a car outside a maximum-security lockup.
Investigators probing an Amazon plane crash that killed 24 people recovered the plane's cockpit recorder, Brazil's Air Force said Monday, as thousands of people packed a gymnasium to mourn the victims.
A man suspected of piloting a motorboat that struck and killed a New York winery owner as he swam off Brazil's coast was briefly detained on Sunday, police said.
Brazil and France on Tuesday signed an arms deal that could lead to Latin America's first nuclear submarine.
The president of the world's largest iron ore producer is asking the government to ease up on its tough labor laws as a way to avoid laying off workers amid the global economic crisis, a newspaper reported Sunday.
In late 2007, Carlos Miguel Sobral and 14 other Brazilian police investigators were getting ready for another day of fighting Internet crime when one of them suggested looking into peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
U.S. and Brazilian aviation officials disagree on the main cause of a plane collision over the Amazon that killed 154 people, with the Americans highlighting failures of air traffic control and the Brazilians emphasizing the actions of two New York pilots.
Brazil plans to boost spending and programs to significantly slow destruction of the Amazon rain forest by 2017, aiming to reduce global warming by slashing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted when trees are burned.
Brazil's ruling coalition has won nearly two-thirds of the mayoral races in weekend elections — giving it a boost ahead of the 2010 presidential race.
The Brazilian government has promised to pay compensation to a U.S. pastor who was arrested, beaten and tortured in 1974 under the former military dictatorship.
A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
Gilberto Gil stepped down as Brazilian culture minister Wednesday, saying he wanted to dedicate more time to his music and his family.
Police in southern Brazil fired rubber bullets and tear gas Wednesday at protesters who tried to invade a supermarket to protest high food prices, part of widespread demonstrations across more than a dozen states.
Brazil's navy has dropped its search for a priest who vanished more than a week ago while floating over the Atlantic with a cluster of party balloons, a spokeswoman said Monday.
A police raid on a Rio de Janeiro shantytown set off a fierce gunbattle that killed at least nine people and wounded seven on Tuesday, officials said.
Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide if scientists in Latin America's largest country can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which many say can lead to cures for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
British supermodel Naomi Campbell spent a second day recuperating in a Brazilian hospital Wednesday after doctors removed a cyst.
A ferryboat wreck on the Amazon River killed at least 14 people, Brazilian officials said Friday, as crews searched for several more people reported missing and feared dead.
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