With interest rates above 1,000% and Brazil's year-old battle against triple-digit inflation facing virtual collapse, the government today approved food price hikes averaging 25%.
Thousands of poor Brazilians are living in a leper colony near the Amazon town of Manaus because life is cheaper and better there than in the slums, a health official said Friday.
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With three children to raise in a cramped, three-room house and mortgage payments eating up a third of her husband's monthly wage of $120, Regina Maria da Silva, 27, decided it was time to stop having children.
Austria and Brazil hold small leads after 64 deals of their 160-deal semifinals in the Bermuda Bowl world contract bridge team championships at Sao Paulo.
A wave of labor militancy, born of inflation-slashed earning power and thriving on the freedom provided by the return of democratic government, is costing Brazil's debt-ridden economy millions of dollars and generating political tensions that have divided the Cabinet of President Jose Sarney.
A state of emergency has been declared here in Brazil's ninth-biggest city, where months of drought have lowered drinking water supplies and reduced electricity from hydroelectric stations.
Doctors performed another operation on President-elect Tancredo Neves today because "his clinical condition did not change" after emergency abdominal surgery six days earlier, the government said.
President Jose Sarney Friday banned whale hunting off Brazil's coast for five years after a letter campaign by thousands of children.
The discovery could double Brazil's reserves and provide self-sufficiency in this fuel.
Ayrton Senna of Brazil knocked Nigel Mansell of England off the pole for today's Detroit Grand Prix
Brazil's leading arms exporter has denounced a U.S.
New security measures have stopped a macabre prison protest in which inmates at an overcrowded city jail held a lottery to decide which of their fellow prisoners would be hanged each week, a prison official said Tuesday.
Two new witnesses told Brazilian police Tuesday that in 1976 they had helped an ailing former German army doctor they came to believe was the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
Vice President George Bush will visit Brazil, Grenada and Honduras after returning from a visit to
The Soviet Union, United States, Brazil and France all won their fourth consecutive match to open
A landslide at an open-pit gold mine in the Amazon killed 10 miners and injured nine Thursday, an official of the local miners' cooperative reported.