AMAZON TRIBESWOMEN ESCAPE BACK TO FOREST AFTER REJECTING CIVILIZATION

The Awa tribe lives on the eastern fringe of Brazil's Amazon rain forest. It is estimated that the population of the Awa totals just 450 people... READ MORE›

VICE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL EMERGES FROM SHADOWS

In some ways, this leaves the president even more reliant on Mr. Temer, whom Ms. Rousseff named as her chief negotiator with the fractious Congress this year... READ MORE›

FIGHT TO IMPEACH BRAZILS LEADER TEARS AT FABRIC OF DAILY LIFE

Alarmed by the surge in social strife, some Brazilians have taken a hard line on political chatter... READ MORE›

EVEN THE MILITARY MAY NOT BE ENOUGH TO PROTECT AN ENDANGERED AMAZON TRIBE

Brazil's armed forces ejected hundreds of settlers from an indigenous reserve. A year later, outsiders are back... READ MORE›

TRUCKER ACCUSED OF KEEPING WOMEN AS SEX SLAVES GETS 20 YEARS

The judge handed down a sentence in line with a plea deal Vafeades made with prosecutors... READ MORE›

DAVID HICKS WINS CHALLENGE TO TERRORISM CONVICTION IN US MILITARY COURT

David Hicks has won his challenge to his terrorism conviction before a military court at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... READ MORE›

AMANDA KNOX'S LAWYER ON WHY SHE WAS ACQUITTED

Knox and Sollecito served nearly four years in Italian prison after a first lower court conviction in 2009 by a Perugia court... READ MORE›

BRAZIL'S TOURISM MINISTER RESIGNS WEEKS BEFORE OLYMPICS

If just a couple of them change sides, the Temer camp would fall short of the 54 votes - equivalent to two-thirds of the 81-seat Senate... READ MORE›

BRAZIL SAYS A THIRD ADULT HAS DIED OF ZIKA

The government estimates that Brazil may have as many as 1.5 million Zika infections... READ MORE›

LATVIAN MAN CHARGED BY U.S. OVER GOZI COMPUTER VIRUS PLEADS GUILTY

District Court, Southern District of New York, No... READ MORE›

IS THIS THE RISKIEST OIL STOCK IN THE WORLD?

With that in mind, it is just possible that Petrobras ADRs may in fact be the riskiest oil stock in the world... READ MORE›

BRITISH GRANDMOTHER WALKS FREE FROM US COURT AFTER DUNHAMS ADMIT $1M FRAUD

15 Jun 2014 They both survived the apparent suicide bid and in December they each pleaded guilty... READ MORE›

THE STORY OF THE BRAZIL'S ZIKA 'BUCKET BABY'

Pictures of Solange and Wesley went around the world after she met a Brazilian AP photographer... READ MORE›

JAILED BRAZILIAN EXECUTIVE TO TESTIFY HE OVERSAW ILLEGAL DONATIONS FOR ROUSSEFF

In Brazil, plea bargain testimony to prosecutors is confidential until approved by a judge... READ MORE›

DAVID HICKS WINS CHALLENGE TO TERRORISM CONVICTION IN US MILITARY COURT

David Hicks has won his challenge to his terrorism conviction before a military court at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... READ MORE›

BRAZIL OFFERS SYRIAN REFUGEES A NEW HOME, BUT THE ECONOMY PUTS THEIR LATIN AMERICAN FUTURE IN QUESTION

Road To Rio Brazil Offers Syrian Refugees A New Home, But The Economy Puts Their Latin American Future In Question... READ MORE›

BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT FACES IMPEACHMENT VOTE

Post to Facebook Brazil's president faces impeachment vote She is accused of breaking fiscal laws by shifting around government funds to plug budget holes... READ MORE›

FORMER BRAZIL MINISTER, BNDES HEAD PRESSURED FIRMS FOR DONATIONS

His company used BNDES loans to finance several large projects abroad... READ MORE›

ZIKA VIRUS MAY BE LINKED TO SURGE IN RARE SYNDROME IN BRAZIL

The Zika virus arrived in Brazil recently but is spreading rapidly around Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›

Candice Anderson had petitioned to vacate her conviction for criminally negligent homicide, according to her lawyer, Robert Hilliard... READ MORE›

BRAZIL'S ROUSSEFF WARNED OF ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN DONATIONS, DONOR TO SAY

In Brazil, plea bargain testimony to prosecutors is confidential until approved by a judge... READ MORE›

WHITE EX-OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY IN BLACK MAN'S SLAYING

The plea from Michael Slager, 35, came five months after a jury deadlocked on state murder charges against him in the 2015 shooting of Walter Scott... READ MORE›

BRAZIL'S ROUSSEFF RACES TO CONTAIN CONGRESS REVOLT OVER AUSTERITY

First, Senate President Renan Calheiros, a member of Brazil's ruling coalition, threw out Rousseff's austerity decree for what he called procedural reasons... READ MORE›

FORMER RAVENS CHEERLEADER SENTENCED TO 48 WEEKENDS IN JAIL FOR RAPING 15-YEAR-OLD BOY

I take full responsibility for what I did Shattuck 48 said in between sobs as she stood before Judge E... READ MORE›

GARDAI BELIEVE LYNN MAY BE SENT BACK TO IRELAND IN FEBRUARY

In December 2014, Brazil's supreme court approved the Irish Government's request for his extradition, but no official date has yet been set... READ MORE›

BRAZIL: PRESIDENT ROUSSEFF PUSHED ONE STEP CLOSER TO IMPEACHMENT

'Minimal indications' of wrongdoing exist to put Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial for corruption, according to a report by Congressman Jovair Arantes... READ MORE›

BID FOR ATTENTION? MOTHER JAILED FOR CONTAMINATING SON'S IV FLUID

The child had received medical care in West Virginia before beginning treatment at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre in 2011, according to prosecutors... READ MORE›

MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN MURDER OF TORONTO-BORN LAW PROFESSOR

Police allege Magbanua is the only link between Rivera and Garcia, and Markel... READ MORE›

D.C. POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN FATAL SHOOTING IN SEPTEMBER IN SOUTHEAST

Nathaniel Beasley, 24, of no fixed address, was charged with second-degree murder while armed... READ MORE›

NURSE SURRENDERS LICENSE OVER PHOTO OF PATIENT'S GENITALS

The Onondaga County District Attorney's Office charged her last year after a nine-month investigation with unlawful surveillance and disseminating unlawful surveillance... READ MORE›