Brazil News

Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet.

Next week's first-leg match in the finals of the Copa Libertadores will go ahead in Argentina despite a swine flu outbreak that is blamed in the deaths of at least 44 people in the country.CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American soccer, said on Friday the match between Argentine club Estudiantes and Brazilian club Cruzeiro would be played in ...

In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009,... In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009, a live pigeon carrying a makeshift backpack containing a cell phone is shown in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Here we see President of Brazil, Lula, wearing an opensolaris hat at FISL and hanging put with opensolaris community in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Brazil has put up the winning bids to extract oil from Uruguay. The state-run oil company in Brazil, Petrobras, has turned in the bids for offshore sedimentary basins Pelotas and Punta del Este, in Uruguay's exploration area.

Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.

China is willing to make joint efforts with Brazil to boost bilateral strategic partnership, a senior official of the Communist Party of China said in Brasilia Wednesday.

GE Oil & Gas, a world leading company in oil and gas advanced technology equipment and services, today announced that it has been awarded a contract of more than $11 million to supply four VetcoGray subsea wellhead systems and running tool rentals to OGX Petroleo e Gas Ltda., the largest independent oil company in Brazil.

Brazilian officials say they've identified the remains of 21 more people who were aboard an Air France jet when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean last month.

The Japanese and Korean steel company has agreed a contract price of iron ore sales for the year 2009.

The Vatican has announced the retirement of a Brazilian archbishop who caused a major stir when he declared that those involved in an abortion for a 9-year-old rape victim were excommunicated.

The body of one of the Irish doctors killed in the Air France plane crash last month has been recovered.

Airbus is expected to face calls to ground its worldwide fleet of long-range airliners tomorrow when French accident investigators issue their first account of what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash off Brazil on June 1. Air France plane broke up in midair Air France flight faced rudder problem It is believed that the accident bureau will ...

ITABORAI, BRAZIL: Marine diving and construction specialist Sistac has chosen Triton Group company Perry Slingsby Systems to provide a work-class ROV system for deployment on a range of projects within Brazil's deepwater terrain.

Brasilia, Jun 24 Family members of dead or disappeared guerrillas during the military dictatorship rejected participation of the Army to search for remains of their loved ones.

A relative of passengers on borad the Yemenia Airbus that crashed is comforted at Marseille Marignane airport.

INVISTA's manufacturing facility in PaulA nia, which produces LYCRA A , LYCRA A XAa , and ELASPAN A fibers in the southeast region of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is celebrating 35 years - " more than 23 million work-hours - " without a lost-time injury.

Brazilians may one day join other Latin Americans as top major league baseball players if an academy to be opened by the Tampa Bay Rays in Marilia is successful.

WEST LAFAYETTE - Ali Davis brought home more than 170 pounds of luggage when she returned from Brazil a little more than a week ago, but that wasn't all.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has approved a law that could legalize landholdings by some 1 million squatters occupying a Texas-sized chunk of the Amazon rain forest, despite environmentalist fears it will accelerate deforestation.