Tag: Brazil

"Nero fiddled while Rome burned." According to historians, in the year 64, as a six-day conflagration that decimated Rome began, Roman emperor Nero was at...

For the better part of two decades, a fringe charismatic church in western North Carolina has been under fire for abusive and cultish practices--such...

The most recent Zika virus outbreak in Brazil and Columbia has affected far more people than any other Zika outbreak since its discovery in...

Pearl Jam shows workers of the world solidarity by offering a generous financial contribution to the families of the victims in "one of the biggest environmental catastrophes in Brazil’s history."

A beauty pageant turned into?something a bit more ugly and violent recently. At the Miss Amazonas 2015 pageant, Sheislane Hayalla came in at second place;...

Today the government of Germany led by famous NSA phone hacking victim Angela Merkel got sweet revenge. In the country that invented the term...

    As many as five teams in soccer's World Cup could face sanctions from the sport's governing body, FIFA, for racist and homophobic behavior by...

&nsbp; "It started with a vuvuzela, then a scream, and suddenly a seemingly quiet S?o Paulo?neighborhood erupted in deafening cheers as Brazil scored against Croatia...

Rio is burning. Feb. 7, 2014 the city government once again tried to raise bus fares from 2.75 reais to 3.00 reais. In response,...

  Today the Folha de Sao Paulo, the Brazilian equivalent of The New York Times, released an open letter from Edward Snowden to the people...