SOL NASCENTE, Brazil (AP) — The buzzing main avenue of this poor Brazilian neighborhood is filled with people popping off buses after work or grabbing a bite. Teens attend an open-air rap battle and ...

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A Scottish ex-pat who uses football to keep kids on the straight and narrow in one of Brazil's toughest favelas is being given a royal seal of approval this week, writes Jacob Bentley-York. Adam Reid, ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — ...

A massive police operation against one of Brazil’s largest criminal organizations left 64 dead and 81 arrested in the ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — Dozens of kids and teenagers from Rio de Janeiro’s Mare neighborhood gathered for the launch of a book in which they show, with their own words and pictures, how ...

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a... Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream ...

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