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British police have reached a compensation deal with the family of a Brazilian man who was shot dead by police after he was mistaken for a terrorist.
Formula One driver Felipe Massa couldn't be happier with the way his recovery is going following his near-fatal accident. His only frustration is not to be racing at home in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Jenson Button clinched his first Formula One title with a fifth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday and his Brawn GP team made history by becoming the first to take the constructors' crown in its debut season.
It was as if the ghosts of the first men to fly were hovering above, keeping a watchful eye.
Heartened by a Supreme Court ruling in Brazil that rejected a challenge to his custody rights, a New Jersey father hopes that he is finally moving closer to regaining custody of his 9-year-old son after a five-year battle with the Brazilian family that claims the boy as their own.
The U.S. military is joining the search for survivors and debris from the Air France flight that disappeared after taking off from Brazil.
New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing.
No police will be charged in the death of a Brazilian who was mistakenly shot by officers in the tense days following 2005 terror attacks in London, prosecutors announced Friday after a new review of the case.
A British jury decided Friday that a string of police failures caused the death of a Brazilian electrician shot by anti-terror police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber — a ruling that prompted his family to demand a new investigation.
Jurors weighing evidence in a public inquest into the shooting death of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist cannot find that he was unlawfully killed, a judge said Tuesday.
Lewis Hamilton became Formula One's youngest champion on Sunday, making a last-lap pass to finish fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix and win the title by one point over Felipe Massa.
A police marksman who fatally shot an unarmed Brazilian man broke down on the witness stand Friday after describing how he thought his target was a suicide bomber about to blow himself up.
A jury on Tuesday retraced the steps of a Brazilian man who was killed by police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. The visit included a stop at the London Underground station where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head as he sat on a subway train.
Police Commissioner David Chong has made a new addition to the department's wish-list: a Portuguese-speaking officer.
Britain's police watchdog ruled Friday that no officers will be disciplined for their roles in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber.
London's police force was found guilty Thursday of endangering the public during a frantic manhunt for four failed suicide bombers that led to the killing of an innocent Brazilian man on a subway train.
Kimi Raikkonen is known as "The Iceman," and he more than kept his cool Sunday, winning the Brazilian Grand Prix and capturing the Formula One title in the tightest race for the championship in 21 years.
An undercover officer who pinned an innocent Brazilian man to his subway seat as he was shot by police told a British court Monday that he was close enough to the victim to feel the shock wave from a fellow officer's gun.
Claudio Paulo Pinto is looking to break an eye-popping record. Literally. Pinto can pop his eyeballs out of their sockets at least 7 millimeters (0.3 inches), a national record for eye-popping according to RankBrasil, an organization modeled after the Guinness Book of World Records that lists Brazilian records.
Brazilian man turns up alive at own funeral A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.
The View's Sherri Shepherd Gets Brazilian Wax On National TV Sherri Shepherd got her first Brazilian wax job on The View today, and love her or hate her, it was hilarious. She also said a lot of un-Christian words when her pubic hair was being ripped out. If only Katie Couric's 2000 Today Show colonoscopy had had this many LOL moments
Death by BrazilianAll Jennifer (not her real name) wanted was a smooth bikini line. But within 24 hours of getting a wax at a reputable New York City salon, an infection crept in. She developed a fever of 102, chills, and pain in her left thigh.
...and why they are so emotionally attached to them.
Brazilian soccer: a guideThere are easy and hard ways to blend in as an American in Brazil. On the hard side: learning to dance samba, becoming fluent in Portuguese, wearing embarrassingly skimpy bathing suits.
Debris May Not Be From Air France JetThe French government expressed deep disappointment Friday over the news that ocean debris recovered by the Brazilian military this week appeared to be the remains of a shipwreck and not from an Air France jet that crashed in the South Atlantic on Monday. More Articles
Gang busted for prison mobile phone delivery with toy chopper Brazilian police caught gang members using a remote-controlled toy helicopter to deliver mobile phones to colleagues locked up in a top-security prison.
Obama says he loves Brazil's Lula, the world's 'most popular politician'Obama shook hands with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and said: "This is my man, right here. I love this guy."
The more I think about all the issues related to the quota system that Brazilian Government is trying to apply in our educational system, the more I'm convinced that it is not a good idea.
Brazilian high school students spend their whole senior year studying for a test called "vestibular" that opens doors to the best universities in the country.
Madonna Reportedly Dating Jesus The pop icon, who has played with religious imagery throughout her career, was snapped in New York yesterday on a date with a 22 year-old Brazilian model named — you guessed it — Jesus Luz.
Brazilian Miss World finalist Mariana Bridi has hands, feet amputated after severe infectionExcerpt: A two-time Miss World finalist has had both of her hands and feet amputated due to a life-threatening infection. Mariana Bridi of Brazil underwent emergency surgery this week after a viral infection spread to her blood. She remains in serious condition.
Boy stops pit bull attack with jujitsu choke hold A 9-year-old Bakersfield boy is being called a hero after he saved a girl and her dog from a pit bull attack.
Reading comments written by minorities from all over the world, reacting to Barack Obama's glorious election to the US presidency (one Brazilian and one African wishing they could come to America to bask in the glory), reminded me of an article I wrote prophetically last November.
50 years on, McCain's ex-flame tracedA 77-year-old Brazilian former model who was the young love of US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been found by a newspaper in the South American country.
When Did Everyone Start Going Hairless? How's this for afterglow? Me: Crying. Him: Laughing. Pretty much the nightmare post-coital situation. And all because I got a Brazilian wax. I'd been dating the same guy for years and I thought I'd surprise him with something sexy and new.
Lewis Hamilton driven to despair - Times Online Lewis Hamilton's hopes of winning the Formula One World Championship were dashed yesterday, although only after a stewards' investigation at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
No regrets for lineswoman who posed nude Brazilian lineswoman Ana Paula Oliveira has no regrets about posing nude for Playboy magazine even though she has not been selected to officiate at a professional game since.
Brazilian Spider Bite Causes Hours-Long ErectionA Brazilian spider delivers more than a painful bite that sends most victims to the hospital. Its venom stimulates an hours-long erection. Now scientists have figured out the chemical that seems to be responsible for the penis boost.
Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax softwareThe Free Software Foundation - Latin America (FSFLA) is campaigning against the Brazilian government's regulations that some citizens must use non-free software for paying taxes.
Brazil Police Question Embraer Officials on Jet CrashBrazilian police questioned executives at aircraft maker Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA to determine why the transponder in one of its Legacy corporate jets wasn''t operating at the time it hit a Boeing passenger plane last month.
Was the airplane's inventor Brazilian?Ask anyone in Brazil who invented the airplane and they will say Alberto Santos-Dumont, a five-foot four-inch (1.6 meter) bon vivant who was as well known for his aerial prowess as he was for his dandyish dress and high society life in Belle Epoque Paris.
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