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  • Bolivia mining town erects huge statue of Virgin

    The Carnival celebrations in this Andean mining city already rival Brazil's Rio de Janeiro for color and culture, if not for size. Now Oruro has ... 

  • Brazil nightclub fire prompts regional reaction

    Brazilian authorities inspected and shuttered night spots around the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly ... 

  • Brazil police: Outdoor flare started club fire

    Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, ... 

  • Neglect, errors to blame in Brazil nightclub fire

    There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes. And when a band member tried to put out a fire that had been started by ... 

  • FIFA, IOC send condolences to Brazil fire victims

    FIFA and local organizers canceled an event celebrating 500 days to go until the 2014 World Cup because of a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 ... 

  • Brazil: bar codes on sidewalks give tourist info

    Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white ... 

  • Rio de Janeiro's favelas find a place on city maps

    Look at most maps of Rio de Janeiro. The beaches are easy to spot, as are the iconic ocean-front neighborhoods of Copacabana and Ipanema. In the ... 

  • Brazil police inspector removed from post

    A Rio de Janiero police inspector has been removed for making disparaging remarks about female officers on his Twitter account. Inspector Pedro Paulo ... 

  • With Olympics in mind, Rio's love hotels clean up

    One worker strips mirrored paneling off the ceiling, as another pries up the fiberglass shell of a whirlpool bath. A third man takes a sledgehammer ... 

  • Weather medium suspends deal with Rio City Hall

    Meteorologists in Rio de Janeiro will have to go back to predicting weather the old-fashioned way — through traditional scientific methods — after the ... 

  • Rio slums: From no-go to must-buy

    Five years ago, Rio de Janeiro's "favela" hillside slums had such a bad rap that they were virtual no-go zones, where drug lords laid down the law and ... 

  • Brazil: Indigenous squatters resist eviction

    Police in riot gear surrounded a settlement of indigenous people next to Rio de Janeiro's storied Maracana stadium on Saturday, preparing to evict ... 

  • Brazil police: Artist's death a possible suicide

    Artist Jorge Selaron may have taken his own life by setting himself on fire on the very steps of his masterpiece, a brilliantly colored public ... 

  • Artist Selaron found dead by his work in Brazil

    The candy-colored steps of a staircase in Rio's bohemian neighborhood of Lapa were the life work of Chilean artist Jorge Selaron and a symbol of his ... 

  • Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic

    Bobo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio's west side, sorting through trash for ... 

  • Rio de Janeiro's funk gains acceptance

    Rio de Janeiro's rich, oceanfront promenades have their own music, made immortal in Bossa Nova tunes such as "The Girl from Ipanema." Carioca funk, ... 

  • Brazil's humble manioc gets deluxe rebirth

    With its starched white tablecloths and stately crystal chandeliers, Rio de Janeiro's upscale O Navegador restaurant doesn't look like the birthplace ... 

  • Sympathy over US school shooting stretches globe

    As the world joined Americans in mourning the school massacre in Connecticut, many urged U.S. politicians to honor the 28 victims, especially the ... 

  • Brazil remembers famed architect with vigil, samba

    The city where architect Oscar Niemeyer was born 104 years ago said goodbye Friday with a public vigil, flowers and, yes, samba. After a viewing in ... 

  • Felipa Tavares

    Transgenders break into Brazil's modeling sector

    Walking the catwalk in a Brazilian bikini is a nerve-racking experience for even the most seasoned of models, but for Felipa Tavares it's nothing ... 

  • Brazil mourns architect Niemeyer's death

    Hundreds of mourners lined up in the vast open plaza at the heart of Brasilia, Brazil's modernist capital, to honor internationally renowned architect ... 

  • Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer

    Federer hopes to play 2016 Games in Rio

    Roger Federer says he won't play as often in the next few years and hopes to compete in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The 31-year-old Federer ... 

  • Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, dies at 104

    Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete and built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains ... 

  • Jacques Rogge

    IOC: 'Time is ticking' for Rio Olympic organizers

    With concern mounting about the pace of progress for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the IOC warned Brazilian organizers Tuesday that "time is ... 

  • Brazilians protest against stadium privatization

    Hundreds of people have held a protest march against the privatization of Brazil's iconic Maracana Stadium. Organizers say at least 800 people, ... 

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