Juliana Nalú is a renowned model who is a native of Rio de Janeiro. How has her background influenced her successful career ...

The American DEA agents, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, who helped bring down the notorious Colombian drug boss Pablo Escobar. Seema Rao is the first woman to train commandos in the Indian army in hand ...

Simonne Butler is a woman from New Zealand whose boyfriend attacked her with a samurai sword, and cut off both her hands. Doctors managed to reattach them, and she eventually learned how to use them ...

The Foreign Office, or FCDO, has issued a warning to UK holidaymakers who are heading out of the European Union for Brazil.

(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) Carnival season always breathes life into the local economy of Rio de Janeiro’s Vila Vintém favela – but particularly this year, after its Unidos de Padre Miguel samba ...

The cast is largely Black Brazilian. Many of the dancers want to prove that the dance form they love does not deserve to be discriminated against just because its birthplace is the favela (the slums ...

Some 17 million people in Brazil live in favelas—informal settlements in ... a local initiative in Rio de Janeiro's Cidade de Deus slum into a rapidly expanding operation that introduced a ...

OTHER EFFORTS IN OTHER SLUMS: The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest “Most children in the favela have no interaction with the forest and do not respect it ...

The residents of the Karnani Estate terrace are living in a slum, which they realise but do not want to accept. Picture by: Soumyajit Dey Around 16.4 million people – 8 per cent of the population – in ...

Among them is Joelma Souza, a mother of five from one of Rio's favela slums, who travels a long distance to find some respite from the heat. "This year is worse than other years. It's terrible.