RIO DE JANEIRO: Latin America's economic powerhouse is increasingly expanding its economic ties with Africa, a sign of how crises in the rich world are pushing faster-growing emerging economies to trade and invest among themselves, economists (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Women in Brazil are outraged at the rising number of rapes and sexual attacks in the country. Their anger came as another woman was raped on a bus in Rio de Janeiro, less than two months after an American tourist was gang raped in (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's former Minister of Insurance and Social Affairs, Aisha Ratib, died at age 85 on Saturday.
Ratib, the first female ambassador to Egypt, died following a sudden cardiac arrest at her home in Giza, reported the Middle East News (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Out Now's LGBT2020 has conducted the world's largest LGBT market research survey spanning 20 countries and 12 different languages. The study has concluded that Brazil is worth $22.9 billion in LGBT tourism. The research will all be (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's national team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said he is likely choose between Ronaldinho and Kaka for the squad's upcoming Confederations Cup in June.
Scolari said in an interview with Folha de S Paulo newspaper published Monday (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian activists have praised a court ruling that has sentenced 23 police officers to some 156 years in jail altogether for their role in the violence that left 111 inmates dead in a prison uprising in 1992. While the ruling came (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: It has become a question that many have been asking for some time now, who's the better superstar footballer, Argentina's Lionel Messi or Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo? For former Brazilian striker Ronaldo, he said that had the (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: With this week's Rio fashion event receiving much fanfare for its scantily clad women showing off the latest in bikini and swimwear, women in the country have called on the industry to begin looking for and hiring more minorities in (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Despite anger from local activists, the Brazil National Petroleum Agency announced that it had given Chevron oil company authorization to resume its production at 6 offshore wells near Rio de Janeiro after more than 100,000 gallons (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: The controversial head of Brazil's Commission for Human Rights and Minorities in the lower house of the country's Congress has said he refuses to relinquish his position despite ongoing calls from activists in the country who say he (...)