With the 2014 World Cup draw approaching, FIFA recently announced the four pots each of the 32 teams will be drawn from. Mexico and the United States sit in Pot 3.

Three people are confirmed dead after part of a stadium set to host the 2014 World Cup collapsed.

Catarina Migliorini, 21, tries to auction her virginity (again) for $1.5 million after receiving a $700K offer last year from a Japanese millionaire.

Who will El Tri be playing in the World Cup 2014 now that they have beat New Zealand? It's time to take a close look at which teams have qualified already to determine what the draw might look like.

The city of Vitória, Brazil, is giving "panic buttons" -- electronic devices with GPS trackers that let women signal if they need help, and take audio and images to help identity the attacker -- to women who file restraining orders against men.

Brazilian government announced a 28-percent increase in Amazon deforestation.

Forensic experts will examine the body of former Brazilian president Joao Goulart after it was claimed the president did not die of a heart attack but was poisoned.

A man was buried alive in Brazil and was discovered by a woman visiting the cemetery when she spotted a pair of arms. Why was he buried alive?

Justin Bieber has made sure he left quite an impression in Latin America. This time around, he was caught tagging the wall of a Brazilian hotel, which got the singer into trouble since now he's charged with vandalism.

One Panamanian hooker wasn't enough, so he went to Rio and got two prostitutes instead! What is happening with Justin Bieber?

Mexico edged Brazil 2-1 in dramatic fashion in under-17 action on Friday at Dubai's Rashid Stadium. Re-live the penalty kicks which won it for them.

El Tri doesn't deserve a World Cup berth according to soccer legend Hugo Sanchez who criticized the Mexican Football Federation for the leadership nightmare.

The National Security Agency (NSA) was revealed in September to have eavesdropped on emails and text messages from current Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto as well as Brazil's president. Now, German newspaper Der Spiegel has reported that files leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden indicate that the NSA's spying has been going on for years.

A video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday showing a man trying to steal a motorbike before being shot by a police officer in Brazil has gone viral with more than 4 million views. It brings up questions of violence and police brutality that continue to plague the country.

In her editorial, Barbara outlined a tongue-in-cheek series of steps Brazilian citizens should take to confuse the NSA’s keyword-based surveillance programs.

Just before President Barack Obama delivered his remarks at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Brazil’s president issued a scathing rebuke of the National Security Agency’s spying programs and called on the UN to establish a new global legal system to protect the “neutrality of the network, guided only by technical and ethical criteria”.

NASA has been attacked by Brazilian hackers who intended to target the NSA. Learn more here.

The president of Brazil has canceled her trip to the U.S after allegations the NSA was spying on the Brazilian people.

Beyonce shows no hard feelings as she returns to the stage.

Passinho keeps kids off the street and is becoming popular in the slums of Brazil.

Glenn Greenwald, a journalist for the Guardian who has been the recipient of much of the classified information on the National Security Agency from leaker Edward Snowden, said on Brazilian television last night that a June 2012 document from the NSA indicates that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s emails were being read and that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s communications were intercepted.

A Brazilian priest announced during mass he was going to be a father, and is now planning a catholic wedding with his girlfriend.

Ricky Martin will sing the official World Cup theme song.

Brazil officials ordered an investigation in a Heinz factory in Mexico after a batch of their ketchup failed sanitary tests.

Eight firefighters in Brazil have been brought up on charges that include fraud as a result of a January 2013 fire.

David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and a Brazilian citizen, was detained for nine hours at London’s Heathrow Airport on his way home to Brazil from Berlin. British authorities said Miranda was held and questioned under a 2000 anti-terrorism law which has been widely criticized for granting police broad powers to stop and carry out searches on people without reasonable permission. Greenwald says his partner was held because of his reportage on top-secret NSA surveillance programs.

Plastic bottles out of light.

See Brazil's elusive Kawahiva tribe on video footage.

Even as hotel industry officials in Rio de Janeiro say they feel prepared for the onslaught of international visitors for the 2014 World Cup, demand for rooms for June and July is pushing prices sky-high.

The United States is back in the top 20 of the FIFA World Soccer Rankings for the first time in 20 years while Spain remains the No. 1 ranked international squad. Mexico, despite 2013 struggles, rounds out Top 20.