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Cuban dissident blogger starts world tour
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez set off on a three-month, dozen-nation world tour Sunday, after a new law eliminated the exit permit that had ...
Brazil papal contender: Place of birth irrelevant
The archbishop of one of the world's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese and a man thought to be a leading Latin American contender to succeed Pope ...
Brazil: local company has patent on iPhone brand
Brazil's patent authority has taken a bite out of Apple with an announcement Wednesday that the iPhone name in Brazil belongs to a local company ...
Brazil's booming beauty market draws investors
Looking good has always been serious business in Brazil. Now it's big business, too. A flush new middle class and a population strong on working ...
Rio de Janeiro's samba schools vie for title
Carnival revelers danced until dawn on Tuesday as Rio de Janeiro's samba schools held their annual sequin-drenched parade competitions at the city's ...
Nadal: ATP not concerned about players' health
Rafael Nadal criticized the ATP on Tuesday for not doing enough to protect players' health, saying the increase in hard-court events will lead to ...
Nadas: ATP not worried about players' health
The ATP was not doing enough to protect players' health and the increase in hard-court events will lead to long-term injuries that will affect players ...
Carnival float catches fire, killing 4 in Brazil
A fire on a Carnival float has killed four people and injured five in the Brazilian port city of Santos. A fire department official says the float ...
Rio teacher out to prove 'gringos' can samba, too
With their gyrating hips and feet that move so fast they dissolve into a blur, samba instructor Carla Campos' students are barely distinguishable from ...
Papal resignation sparks global disbelief, grief
From the parishes of Poland to the churches of Chile, Roman Catholics around the world were stunned Monday at the first papal resignation in six ...
Hundreds toil for months for Rio's Carnival parade
There's nothing glamorous about the industrial warehouse reverberating with the zap of soldering metal, the clatter of hammers and an earsplitting ...
Rio's samba dancers stars by night, workers by day
It's a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company's drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles.
Brazil's Carnival moves beyond samba
The crowd gathering Saturday was a typical Rio Carnival mix: a sprinkling of superheroes, girls in cute bunny outfits, zombies and princesses, a group ...
As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape
As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's streets for Carnival's ...
IOC asked to probe court interference in Brazil
The ousted presidents of two Brazilian sports federations have filed complaints with the IOC claiming they were removed from their posts after illegal ...
After deadly fire, fears for Carnival in Brazil
Just over a week since a nightclub fire killed nearly 240 revelers in southern Brazil, Carnival festivities hit full stride Friday, raising questions ...
Querrey lifts US to victory in Davis Cup
The United States was in trouble when Sam Querrey began his Davis Cup match against Thiago Alves on Sunday. A few booming serves later, the Americans ...
Rio Carnival goes to dogs at canine street party
The crowd at the Blocao Carnival street party Sunday was a decidedly mixed one. Roughly half the revelers were humans, the other half dogs, though the ...
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 nightclub owner blames country for fire
The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as ...
Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult
Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration ...
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, ...
Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice
The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this ...
A look at fallout from nightclub fires
Investigators are determining the causes of a nightclub fire that killed at least 234 people in southern Brazil early Sunday, with criminal charges ...