Rio de Janeiro News

Brazil improved five positions in the annual ranking of perceived corruption released on Tuesday by Transparency International, ranking 75th out of 180 countries. The higher the country's position, the less corrupt it is considered to be. Despite the improvement, Brazil...

Spanish oil group Repsol expects to invest $12 billion in oil exploration activities in Brazil in the next 10 years, including in newly discovered "subsalt" areas, its president said on Saturday. "For the next three to four years it's just...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided that Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will host the Olympics in 2016. The voting was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Brazil is elated about this decision. The Olympics will be conducted in a tropical South American...

Brazil is the venue of the 2016 Olympics. The sudden blackout it experienced from 10.15 pm is viewed seriously by the administration – was it an act of sabotage? A repeat during the Olympic Games could throw all preparations out...

Millions of people in two of Brazil’s most populous cities lit candles and opened their windows late Tuesday evening, waiting for the lights to return after a huge hydroelectric power plant failed. The blackouts affected Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paula...

For the first time south america won the vote for hosting the 2016 olympic game when Rio De Janeiro got the dream to host olympic.madrid, chicago, tokyo were on the final rounds of hosting the olympic games but Rio De...

The Brazilian city made a passionate pitch for the 2016 Summer Games and will now make history as the first South American city to host the global sporting event. DePaul students Sara Urban (left), 18, and Maureen Clancy, 19, show...

While land development, human settlement, and logging are the main sources of deforestation , the bedrock of this global ecocide is the construction of roads which tear through the rainforest habitat, laying down concrete in every direction with each newly...

The helicopter came down after the pilot was hit in the leg by a bullet and burst into flames. At least 10 other people were reported to have died in the fighting...It was the worst outbreak of violence since the...