Find out more about the newly discovered Brazilian 'Atlantis' and see the footage of the discovery.

After a six-month battle with Mexico's Herminio Blanco, Roberto Azevedo wins WTO race, becomes first Latino to head the organization.

Is Brazil's caxirola the new vuvuzela?

A Brazilian man gets his eyeball tattooed and cries ink for two days. Learn more.

The stadium will host the World Cup final next year as well as matches in the 2016 Olympics.

Damião Paridzané was nine years old in 1966 when the Brazilian Air Force loaded him and hundreds of other Xavante Indians onto a cargo plane.

Babies have died in a Brazilian hospital after a bacteria outbreak.

A Brazilian federal prosecutor has opened an investigation into allegations that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was involved in a vote-buying scheme in Congress that led to the conviction of close aides for corruption.

Tickets range from $65 to $130 and will grant access to the seven days of music acts.

A map issued by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs recommends a "high degree of caution" in Brazil, which will host the World Cup in 2014.

Three suspects have been arrested after being identified by the victims.

Three men have been arrested in the gang rape of an American female tourist in Brazil.

Olympian Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the 150-meter race at the season opener in Brazil on Easter Sunday. But did he break the world record?

Police evicted two dozen Amazon natives on Friday from an old Indian museum that will be demolished to clear areas adjacent to Brazil's legendary Maracana soccer stadium, the main venue for next year's World Cup.

The actress is postponing rehab and flying to São Paulo to appear in a clothing commercial.

Clube Atlético Mineiro will celebrate their 105th anniversary on Monday.

Brazil's beloved TV news anchor is saying goodbye to her viewers. Where is Ana Paula Pãdrao headed?

Early on Wednesday morning, Brazilian singer Emílio Santiago died at age 66.

Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, was greeted on Monday by a small group of protesters calling her a CIA agent upon arriving in Brazil, the first stop on a whirlwind tour that will take her to a dozen countries.

Prosecutors in southern Brazil, where 235 people died when a fire ravaged the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria last weekend, are investigating whether city leaders and inspectors were negligent in allowing the club to operate.

Brazilian police on Monday detained the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 231 people as well as two band members whose pyrotechnics they say triggered the blaze as the focus turned to finding those responsible for the tragedy.

Relatives of the 231 people who died in a Brazilian nightclub fire demanded answers on Monday as to how it could have killed so many people, while police questioned the club's owner and members of the band whose pyrotechnics show allegedly caused the tragedy.

Group 1 Automotive agreed to buy Brazilian automotive retail firm UAB Motors Participacoes S.A for about $146 million in cash and stock on Thursday.

After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and builders move into previously untouched woodland, according to data compiled by the government and independent researchers.

Brazil is urging Venezuela's government to hold elections as quickly as possible if President Hugo Chavez dies, senior officials told Reuters on Monday, a major intervention by Latin America's regional powerhouse that could help ensure a smoother leadership transition in Caracas.

Brazil looks less vulnerable today to an energy crisis similar to one in 2001 that cut output at factories, lopped about a percentage point off economic growth, and led millions of people to spend their nights by candlelight.

Brazil's government has proposed changes to a fiscal responsibility law that set the foundation for a decade of economic prosperity in Latin America's largest economy, two local newspapers said on Saturday.

Brazil's Agriculture Ministry said on Friday that the country had registered no cases of mad cow disease, denying reports on some local media websites that said the disease had cropped up in the southern state of Parana two years ago.

President Dilma Rousseff's government has pulled out all the stops to persuade Brazilianbanks to lend more - pushing interest rates to an all-time low, leaning on state-run lenders, and even publicly shaming the industry for its high profits.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will travel to Brazil for a regional summit at the end of this week despite cancer-related medical treatment inCuba, Brazil's ambassador said on Monday.