A small islet located just a few meters from the port of Rio de Janeiro, with its beaches covered by about 80 tons of trash, serves as a stark reminder of the failure of the renewed promise by the ...

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from ...

I’m Still Here,” from Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (“Central Station”), is the devastating and remarkable story of a hero. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) is a mother of five in 1970 ...

A historic moment will take place in Saudi Arabia this week with Sotheby’s staging the first ever live auction in the kingdom ...

The scorching summer temperatures in Rio de Janeiro have driven residents and tourists to seek new ways to cool off, with many seen opting for a nighttime beach visit over air conditioning on February ...

Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A devotee puts flowers in the waters of Arpoador Beach as offerings ...

Thousands of worshippers clad in white robes have spilled onto Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro to pay homage to Yemanja, the ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...

Shakira arrived on Tuesday (Jan. 21) in Mexico City, where she will stay for a few days to conduct general rehearsals for her stadium tour Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, kicking off on Feb. 11 in Rio de ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto welcomes the Australian Government's announcement of an aluminium production credit to help sustain and grow aluminium smelting in Australia, and ...