As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was all-too-familiar to AP’s Rio staff: stories of ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...

The United Arab Emirates wants to invest more in Brazil. The focus is not only on raw materials but also on infrastructure ...

Damaged structures are seen during a police operation to demolish properties allegedly belonging to drug trafficker Alvaro ...

Brother Fabio preaches at a church in Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. What he means is that the citizenry of Santa Marta is part of a plan to clean up the hillside slums for the ...

Among them is Joelma Souza, a mother of five from one of Rio's favela slums, who travels a long distance to find some respite from the heat. "This year is worse than other years. It's terrible.

Favela Cloud Turns A Rio Slum Into An Architectural Heaven Architects propose a new way of looking at high-density urban slums: making space evoke a walk in the clouds.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Novak Djokovic was in Rio de ... Kuerten for the inauguration of the public court in the Rocinha slum, one of Latin America's largest. He will also face the former three-time ...