At least four people were killed and several others injured after a homeless shelter was set on fire early Monday in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four people died on Monday after a fire at a shelter for the homeless in a city in southeastern Brazil, Sao Paulo’s secretariat for public security said. A 42-year-old man was ...

During Carnival, the small Brazilian town of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga’s calm everyday life transforms into a joyful ...

It’s morphin’ time for Brazil's police.Dozens of officers have camouflaged among revelers during Carnival festivities to arrest ...

For almost two decades, hundreds of dogs in the upscale Barra da Tijuca region in Rio de Janeiro have wagged their tails to samba music at the Blocao Carnival street party. They did it once again on ...

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Carnival revelry is ramping ... “It allows our freedom of expression.” Sao Paulo’s samba school parades started Friday evening, bringing thousands to the ...

Zu Lai, the largest Buddhist temple in South America, is located in Cotia, just 18 miles from downtown São Paulo, Brazil. Still, it feels like another country. The massive Chinese palace — with ...

There are also street vendors who race across parks and up hills, from downtown to ... outshined by Brazil’s second-largest city, the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo has its own notable ...

“Vendors are seen as dangerous, as tarnishing the city’s reputation, as causing public disorder,” said Flávia Magalhães, who researches street sellers at the Paulista University in Sao Paulo.