Passengers, angry about slow service, took out their frustration on trains in Sao Paulo, Brazil, bashing windows and damaging at least 17 train cars Tuesday, an official told the national broadcaster.

Burger King has been sold to 3G Capital, a private equity firm backed by three of Brazil’s best-known businessmen, in a deal worth $4bn (£2.6bn). The $24-a-share agreement is 46% more than Burger King shares closed at on 31 August, the day...

Brazil’s president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday. President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva was quoted by Brazil’s official state news agency EBC as saying “I want...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked up budding ties between Brazil — notably their diplomatic cooperation over Iran’s nuclear program — as he made an unprecedented visit to the South American nation. Speaking to a...

A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a former altar boy in Rio de Janeiro and turning his parish home into an “erotic dungeon” has surrendered and is now in police custody, a public safety official said Saturday. State prosecutors...

A football match in Brazil was abandoned after police pepper sprayed a player who refused to leave the pitch after he was red-carded, reports say. Genus defender Robson was dismissed after a poor tackle in Saturday’s lower league match, which...

Carnival erupted Friday in Rio with raucous street parties that brought together cheering, drum-beating locals with sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities. Thousands of Carnival revelers flooded the cobbled streets of the bohemian Santa Teresa...

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, made an assessment this Monday of the Brazilian participation in the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15), which ended in Copenhagen last Saturday, December 18. The Brazilian leader...

Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored car company’s safe made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend, making their getaway as season-ending football matches virtually shut down Brazil, authorities said...

Peru’s police chief has suspended a top investigator for saying he had caught a gang who were murdering people to sell their fat. Last month, top organised crime investigator Felix Murga said police had arrested four suspects who confessed to...