- Bow and arrow used to send phones into Brazil jail
(AP)
AP - Police say a 17-year-old teen was detained after he shot arrows with cell phones attached over the walls of a prison in southern Brazil to inmates waiting on the other side.
- Brazil officials: Amazon deforestation declining
(AP)
AP - Brazil's government says deforestation in the Amazon is falling significantly and could be the lowest ever when yearly numbers are completed.
- Brazilian man accused of inserting needles in baby
(AP)
AP - Brazilian police say a man has confessed he inserted two needles and a nail into a baby girl's body because her beauty bothered him.
- Brazil's Rousseff could win in first round: poll
(Reuters)
Reuters - Brazilian ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff opened a 24-percentage point lead over her main presidential rival in an opinion poll on Saturday, staying on course win the October 3 election in the first round.
- Banning Political Humor: No Satire Please, We're Brazilian
(Time.com)
Time.com - Brazil has decided to ban political satire on radio and television -- exacerbating a colorless presidential campaign season
- U.S. and Brazilian Leaders to Explore New Opportunities for Job Creation
(PR Newswire)
PR Newswire - Council on Competitiveness to Hold 2nd U.S.-Brazil Innovation Summit at Georgetown University, September 20-21
- Humpback whale beached on sand bar in Brazil
(AP)
AP - Marine biologists say a humpback whale has beached itself for the second time in two days on a sandbar in southern Brazil.
- Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot
(Time.com)
Time.com - Brazil's Start-Up Generation Attracts New Venture Capital
- Brazil comedians say election censorship no joke
(Reuters)
Reuters - Brazilian comedians are up in arms against a ruling that blocks them from poking fun at their favorite targets -- politicians on the campaign trail.
- Brazil police probe hotel hostage drama
(AFP)
AFP - Brazilian authorities probed Sunday the brazen hostage-taking of 35 people at an upscale central Rio de Janeiro hotel following a shootout between a gang and police that left one person dead.
- Gunmen fighting Rio police invade luxury hotel
(AP)
AP - Heavily armed drug gang members engaged in an intense firefight with police, then fled into a luxury hotel popular with foreign tourists and held about 30 people hostage for three hours Saturday before surrendering.
- Brazil drug violence spills into 5-star Rio hotel
(Reuters)
Reuters - Brazilian police on Saturday arrested 10 heavily armed men and rescued 35 people who had been held hostage for almost two hours at a five-star hotel in one of Rio de Janeiro's richest neighborhoods.
- Rousseff widens lead in Brazilian presidential poll
(Reuters)
Reuters - Ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff extended her lead over rival Jose Serra after taking advantage of free broadcast advertising, a poll showed on Saturday.
- Desperate times for Brazil's opposition candidate
(AP)
AP - Brazil's opposition presidential candidate is plummeting so fast in the polls that he's running television ads linking himself to the nation's popular president — who backs his rival.
- Brazil police say janitor killed 2 students
(AP)
AP - A school janitor has confessed to killing two female students and dumping their bodies in an abandoned cesspool in southeastern Brazil, police said Friday.
- Brazil's Rousseff free of cancer, feels fine
(Reuters)
Reuters - Brazil's ruling party candidate for president, Dilma Rousseff, received a clean bill of health on Thursday after a routine exam following her cancer treatment last year.
- Brazil's sensual Rio aims for stylish syntax
(AP)
AP - Fumbling for the right word? Stumped by syntax? Trying to figure out just what syntax means? Help is just a phone call away — at least if you live in Rio de Janeiro.
- No fun intended: Brazil forbids election spoofing
(AP)
AP - Make no joke about it, Brazil's presidential election is a serious affair, devoid of Jon Stewart's wry jabs, sidesplitting Top 10 lists or the "Saturday Night Live" cast lampooning politicians left and right that characterized the latest U.S. contest.
- Iran won't send woman who faced stoning to Brazil
(AP)
AP - Iran will not send a woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction to Brazil, which has offered her asylum, the president said in a TV interview broadcast Monday.
- 1 Killed, 17 Detained at Brazil Pride
(The Advocate)
The Advocate - Police say a teenager has been shot to death in a fight between rival gangs at a gay pride festival in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, the Associated Press reports.