Brazilian authorities said a tractor-trailor has slammed into a bus carrying sugarcane cutters, killing at least 33 people and injuring 13 others, according to AP.
A police spokesman said the truck driver lost control as he was rounding a corner (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- Brazil's President has ordered a full investigation into an oil spill near an offshore field operated by oil giant Chevron Corp.
Dilma Rousseff says in a statement that she wants a "rigorous investigation" to (...)
AlHijjah 2, 1432, Oct 29, 2011, SPA -- Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has throat cancer and is expected to begin chemotherapy in the coming days, dpa cited a statement Saturday from the Sirio-LibanesHospital in Sao Paulo as (...)
Google says it will soon make available images of the Amazon rain forest on its Street View mapping service, according to AP.
Spokesman Fabio Sabba says Google began taking photographs of Amazon rivers and trails in a partnership with a local (...)
Albert Einstein Hospital officials say former Brazil captain Socrates is in a stable condition in intensive care after being treated for a stomach hemorrhage, according to AP.
The Sao Paulo hospital said in a statement on Saturday that Socrates was (...)
A Brazilian woman listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person has died _ just weeks shy of her 115th birthday, AP reported.
Maria Gomes Valentim died Tuesday morning in the southeastern city of Carangola. Helerson Lima of the (...)
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for U.S. economic growth on Friday and warned Washington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate steps to reduce their budget deficits, (...)
Japanese motor company Honda dismissed 400 of a
total of 3,487 employees at its plant in Sumare, in the Brazilian
state of Sao Paulo, for lack of parts imported from Japan, dpa reported.
The supply of imported parts to make the models Fit, City (...)
Awwal 19, 1432 H/April 23, 2011, SPA -- Police in Brazil say gunmen have killed an environmental activist, his brother and three friends, according to AP.
The bodies of Jorge Grando, the former head of the environmental protection agency for the (...)
Akhir 12, 1432 H/March 17, 2011, SPA -- Upgrades to Brazil's airports will be opened up to private investment to ensure they are completed in time for the 2014 World Cup, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published Thursday, (...)
Awwal 23, 1432 H/Feb 26, 2011, SPA -- A Brazilian federal court late Friday ruled to
suspend planned construction of a huge hydro-electric dam in the
Amazon rainforest region, citing environmental concerns.
The court in its ruling said the (...)
Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake says it plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil in the next five years, buying and investing in local technology companies, according to AP.
Co-founder David Roux tells (...)
Awwal 11, 1432 H/Feb 14, 2011, SPA -- Ronaldo, whose 15 World Cup goals for Brazil represent the all-time record, said Monday he was retiring from soccer, according to UPI.
Ronaldo, 34, helped Brazil to World Cup titles in 1994 and 2002. He scored (...)
Brazilian authorities said four members of a family have died in a mudslide in Sao Paulo state, bringing the death toll from heavy flooding to at least 35 people. More than 30,000 people across the country have been forced out of their homes, (...)
Plopping her swollen ankles upon a purple couch, 72-year-old Dilma de Lima exults in the new government-built apartment she now calls home after a lifetime of misery in Brazil's slums, according to AP.
«Life has never been better,» Lima says (...)
Brazil's unemployment has hit a record low for the fourth straight month.
The government's IBGE statistics bureau said that November unemployment dipped to 5.7 percent, the lowest since officials began using the current methodology in 2002, (...)
Qa'dah 09, 1431 H/Oct 17, 2010, SPA -- Brazil's Green Party's presidential candidate, Marina Silva, who was knocked out of the race in the first round despite a strong showing, said she would remain neutral in the runoff vote.
Silva said at a party (...)
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is set to launch the world's biggest market capitalization, with a planned sale of new shares worth almost 120.3 billion reais (70 billion dollars), according to dpa.
The state-run company set a price of 26.30 reais (...)
Protesters on Monday released workers from the construction site of an Amazon hydroelectric plant that Indians say is being built on an ancient burial ground.
The Indians initially freed about 100 rank-and-file workers and later the last five (...)
South Africa did its job to successfully host the World Cup. Now the focus _ and the pressure _ is on Brazil.
The 2010 World Cup went off without any major problems despite fears that South Africa would not be able to cope. Now Brazil will have to (...)
Brazilian police said on Sunday they had found no explosive devices aboard an Air France plane that was forced to divert to the northeastern city of Recife after a bomb scare, according to Reuters.
Air France flight 443, en route to Paris from Rio (...)
A study said that the next World Cup in 2014 will inject nearly $80 billion dollars into host Brazil's economy, according to AP.
The joint study by the Getulio Vargas Foundation think tank and accounting giant Ernst & Young says that between 2010 (...)
Officials say fire has destroyed what may be the world's largest scientific collection of dead snakes, spiders and scorpions.
Members of the Instituto Butantan say the collection of nearly 80,000 specimens was the main source for research on (...)
Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to recall a yet-undetermined number of vehicles sold in Brazil since 2008 due to floor mat problems, the latest in a string of safety problems the Japanese automaker faces globally, local newspapers reported on Saturday, (...)
As environmentalists cheer a judge's roadblock to a huge Amazon dam, its supporters, including Brazil's president, insist the hydroelectric project is needed and will be built, according to AP.
Foes of the dam, who were joined this week by «Avatar» (...)