RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment - the dawn of an ...

"Brazil forgot to take care of its new poor." Investors had hoped that new, right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office on Jan. 1, would quickly revitalize the economy with market ...

But if you are going to be rich, it is better to be rich in Brazil." Of course, his standards of rich in the Brazil of the 1990s was more like the Hollywood depiction of the American middle class ...

It is a city of style and nearly unsurpassed physical beauty — in its people and its surroundings. It is as hot as the sun that beats... Listen to farró music. (:43, MP3) ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis yesterday issued the first social manifesto of his young pontificate, telling slum dwellers in Brazil that the world’s rich must do much more to wipe out vast ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazilians are being divided along class lines by a runoff election pitting the nation's first working-class president against a patrician anesthesiologist who governed its.

While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.

Brazil has struggled with water scarcity from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. Here's what the water-rich country is getting wrong.Home to the largest river in the world by volume ...

BRASILIA, Brazil, July 31 (UPI) -- Brazil's growing economy is lifting the country's rich and poor and shows signs of sustainability, analysts said. While the economy grew 5.4 percent in 2007, the ...

Elizabeth Leite de Souza looks worn out. She's been looking for work for more than three years, and still hasn't found it. She and her husband get by on about $300 a month he earns as an informal ...