RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hundreds of eager children on school field trips shuffled into the Rio zoo on a typically sunny morning two weeks ago. Heading for a stage where actors were about to put on a ...

A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Sixteen girls from one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums have celebrated a fairy-tale evening in a debutante ball sponsored by local police. The 15-year-old girls from Mangueira ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Like his house, Jose Santos de Oliveira is an island of resistance. The middle-aged gardener and his home stand amid the sea of rubble that remains of the slum community of ...

Pelé, the soccer player who rose from an impoverished Brazilian slum to become the most famous and, for a time, the best-paid athlete in the world during a spectacular career that produced more World ...

Gisele Bundchen has launched a model search across some of Brazil's most deprived areas. The 31-year-old supermodel returned to her native country to launch the initiative which aims at boosting 'slum ...

Rio police will boost their presence in a violent slum controlled by drug gangs as authorities crack down on crime in the final countdown to the World Cup, an official source said Tuesday. The source ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to Rio de Janeiro slum residents on Thursday that new social and security projects would mark the end of years of state ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Top officials from Rio de Janeiro said Friday they want elite federal police and possibly army troops sent to the city to help quell a wave of violence in so-called “pacified” ...

Tonight (10), Edu Lyra will see the first major milestone of his plan to attract capital in the United States to advance an agenda of digital transformation to change realities of slums (favelas) ...

Growing up in Brazil, Edson Arantes do Nascimento so hated the nonsensical nickname his grade school playmates used to tease him that he would fight anyone who dared call him “Pelé.” Before he had ...