By Sergio Queiroz RIO DE JANEIRO, May 11 (Reuters) - Jarbas Meneghini has made more than 3,000 plaster replicas of the soccer ...

MARICA, Brazil (AP) — When Sávio Conrado Mura left his Indigenous village of stilt houses located deep in the Amazon ...

From a village on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, Indigenous people have founded a professional soccer team made up solely ...

A Brazilian bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics has been banned for two years for missing doping controls.

R IO DE JANEIRO, Brazil’s sun-soaked metropolis, is bursting with foreign visitors. Their numbers rose to 2.1m in 2025, up by 45% compared with the previous year. To them, Rio i ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She came — and she delivered one of the greatest shows at Rio de Janiero’s Copacabana Beach has ever seen on Saturday (May 3). At ...

Framed by green mountains and a sweeping cityscape, Guanabara Bay offers one of Rio de Janeiro’s most breathtaking views. This triangle of water inland from the Atlantic Ocean, which separates Rio ...

In February, I spent a week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with friends for the Rio Carnival festival. Seeing the floats and performers, and places my Brazilian grandpa told me about, felt magical. The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Police in Rio de Janeiro killed at least nine people in a raid on Wednesday, in the latest example of deadly violence by Brazil's security officials after 16 people ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — ...