Sources: BBC
A court declares Brazilian telecommunications company Oi bankrupt, the largest bankruptcy in the country's history. 2025-11-10
Nine people are killed and seven others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Quatro Barras, Paraná state, Brazil. 2025-08-12
The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 126, with 141 still missing and more than 300,000 people displaced. 2024-05-10
Ohio reports its first cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil. 2021-03-7
Germany reports their first case of the more contagious B.1.1.248 variant in a person who travelled from Brazil to Hesse. 2021-01-22
Over Sunday and Monday, 55 people die of asphyxiation in various prisons across the Brazilian city of Manaus. 2019-05-27
American graphic designer Richard Swanson dies after being struck by a pickup truck in Oregon while attempting to dribble a soccer ball all the way to Brazil to raise money for charity. 2013-05-15
Three men are arrested for allegedly raping and robbing a foreign tourist on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, amid concerns about security before the country hosts 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. 2013-04-2
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega moves to secure the Brazilian real amid concerns expressed in the "Financial Times" of currency manipulation by the United States, China and others. 2011-01-10
Brazil's four main presidential election candidates participate in their first televised debate. 2010-08-6