Brazil News | GOIANIA, Brazil – A security camera video surfaced this week showing a 22-year-old junk car dealer being chased down and killed with 12 shots. Homicide detectives say they will request a copy of the video to aid … Continue reading
Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – Rescuers have pulled the body of a fourth victim from Wednesday night’s collapse of three highrise buildings in downtown Rio. According to the State Secretariat of Civil Defense, as of 5 pm Thursday, … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – Ashton Kutcher gives a playful interview to TV Globo at Sao Paulo Fashion Week. http://s.videos.globo.com/p2/player.swf Ashton Kutcher (Video: Globo TV)
Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – A seven-story building, which was under renovation, collapsed completely in downtown Rio de Janeiro late on Wednesday. State Civil Defense reported that the fall of the building left 11 victims dead and wounded, … Continue reading
Brazil News | FORTALEZA, Brazil – A calf born with two heads in the city of Crato, in the interior of the state, has become an attraction. The animal caught the attention of community residents, who gathered at the farm … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – A woman in Sao Manuel is accusing a veterinarian of animal abuse for using Super Glue to immobilize her pooch’s fractured leg. The vet says that the practice is common and that the animal’s … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – The famed Mercado Municipal Paulistano, the Mercadão, celebrates its 79th anniversary on Wednesday. The enormous neo-classical structure was inaugurated on 25 January 1932 after four years of construction. Mercado Municipal Paulistano (Photo: espaco.gourmet.zip.net)
Brazil News | RIO DE JANEIRO – The American actress Megan Fox and former boxer Mike Tyson star in a new TV ad campaign in Brazil, using humor to encourage the study of English. The ad shows two young men … Continue reading
Brazil News | FORTALEZA, Brazil – Maria da Conceicao Erundina celebrated her 110th birthday on Friday, in Brejo Santo, in southern Ceara. Known amongst friends as Dona Senhorinha, she is keen to show her birth certificate, filed on 22 January … Continue reading
Brazil News | SAO PAULO – American actor Ashton Kutcher published today, in his twitter profile, a photo of a person (apparently himself) surfing in the middle of flooded SP streets. Part of the city of Sao Paulo was in … Continue reading
