Brazil planes collide over Amazon, 155 missing (Reuters)

" By Terry Wade 1 hour, 19 minutes ago SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian airline passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle on Friday after colliding with a small plane,...

Gangs bring anarchy to Brazil's biggest city

"The violence that terrorised Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous state, in recent months has returned, with powerful criminal gangs setting fire to courthouses, incinerating buses, attacking banks and throwing...

Violence flares up again in Sao Paulo

" Assailants sprayed gunfire at police, set off bombs outside government buildings, and torched buses and banks Monday in a new wave of attacks that authorities suspect were ordered by gang leaders from behind...

Brazilian gang runs streets from prison (AP)

" SAO PAULO, Brazil - Packed a dozen to a small cell, inmates sleep in bunks stacked four-high to the ceiling, or on thin mattresses on floors where rats and cockroaches scurry. Newcomers spend their nights in bathrooms reeking of excrement. Inmates in scores of prisons...

Brazilian military to aid stray penguins (AP)

" SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil is staging a military operation involving a Hercules transport plane and Navy ships — all to return four dozen wayward penguins to the icy waters of Antarctica, authorities said Wednesday. The 50 birds are the survivors among 135 that...

Gang violence grips Brazil state

"Overnight, gangs torched buses, targeted banks and maintained their attacks on police patrols and stations. At least 23 people were killed in the latest fighting, officials said. "

The Prestes Maia Hope

""If I pay my rent, I go hungry, so I don't pay and I become homeless," they were repeatedly told. As those involved looked up at the abandoned buildings, an idea began to hatch. In 1997 MSTC occupied its first...

Tim Festival: Brazil

A edicao 2005 do Tim Festival apresentou 34 atracoes nacionais e internacionais nos 3 dias de programacao, de sexta (21) a domingo, e reuniu um p�blico total de 35.000 pessoas no Rio e cerca de 26.300 em Sao...

No Doubt: Pearl Jam "OK," to Play in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - After weeks of doubts, Sao Paulo's mayor had agreed to allow U.S. rockers Pearl Jam to perform in the Brazilian city's biggest stadium. More than 40,000 fans are expected for the...

Tunnelling Bank Robbers Bag $65M From Brazil Bank

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Thieves tunneled nearly 300 feet to a Central Bank vault in northeastern Brazil and stole about $65 million, police said Monday, in what has been described as the biggest such robbery ever in Brazil. The money was stolen from the Central Bank's vault in...

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