Brazil

The tribes fight back with Native Spirit

Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves. And the results, as seen in the Native Spirit film festival, are remarkable Cinema's relationship with indigenous tribal...

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Outside the Boks: Nile on impossible to separate Egypt and Algeria in card game

With OTB in South Africa for most of the past week, a World Cup flavour to today's column. Qualifying for next summer's global extravaganza is due to be completed next week but an additional match may be necessary. If Egypt...

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Pret a Manger faces inquiry over frozen chicken labelled as 'fresh'

Sandwich chain Pret A Manger is facing an investigation into its food labelling after The Sunday Telegraph revealed the 'fresh' chicken in its sandwiches is actually shipped frozen from Brazil. The chain could now be forced to...

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Hoaxer impersonates Brazil leader

The real Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was not interviewed by the radio stations A hoaxer pretending to be Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was interviewed by Portuguese-language radio stations before being found out....

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Emerging cities set to transform league table of world's wealthiest by 2025

Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Mumbai will be up there with New York, London and Paris, according to new PwC research New York, London and Paris may trip off the tongue as the world's top cities in terms of wealth but over the next 15...

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The city that went to war on advertising

Stealthily, cleverly, implacably, the officials of Sao Paulo – its 20 million inhabitants make it one of the world's largest cities – are after their prey. Since the first day of 2007, morning, noon, night and at weekends,...

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CORRECTION: Brazil's Azul to launch Florianopolis service

Brazilian low-cost carrier Azul plans to launch services next month to Florianopolis, a popular seaside city in southern Brazil. The carrier says in a 6 November statement that flights from its Campinas base outside Sao Paulo...

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Air France Crash Memorial In Rio Amid Criticism

Memorial For 228 Victims Of Air France Crash Dedicated In Brazil Amid Criticism Of Airline (AP) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an...

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With slum school, Brazilian socialite targets intellectual gap

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Like her neighbors in Rio's elegant Flamengo district, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello enjoys the trappings of wealth, from riding show horses to escaping on weekends to a mountain estate north of the city.

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Memorial for 228 crash victims dedicated in Brazil

Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighbourhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the answers...

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