Around 10:30 p.m. on a Friday in late January, David Fernando, a pharmacist, was working behind a counter at a drugstore in São Paulo when a man walked up to him and flashed a gun. “He asked for money from the register and medications from the refrigerator,” Mr. Fernando said. These days, pharmacists in São
Kamilla Souza getting ready to study the brain of this beached whale. Instituto Baleia Jubarte hide caption toggle caption Instituto Baleia Jubarte A year and a half ago, neuroscientist Kamilla Souza got the call she’d been waiting for. A baby humpback whale was adrift just offshore, in the waters off southeastern Brazil. It had died
Some 4,900 yellow-spotted river turtles, also known as tracajás, have been released into the Igapó-Açu River, in Brazil. The threatened species lives in river basins in northern South America, and the Federal University of Amazonas has been running projects aimed at boosting turtle numbers for a decade. In that time, more than 70,000 turtles have
The remnants of a World War II warship that Nazis sunk off the coast of Brazil have been discovered more than 80 years later. The Brazilian vessel, named Vital de Oliveira, was attacked by a German submarine in 1944 and 100 of the 270 men onboard were killed. The wreck was found when the Brazilian Navy
Two people are dead in Brazil on Friday after a small plane crashed into a bus on a busy road in São Paulo. Video taken at the scene showed firefighters surrounding the smoldering wreckage of the aircraft, which plunged from the sky shortly after taking off from a nearby private airport. A piece of
A small plane crashed into a road in São Paulo, Brazil, around 7:20 a.m. local time Friday, killing both people on board and injuring several people on the ground, according to the city’s fire department. Six people sustained minor injuries and were not in serious condition. One of them was a motorcyclist who was passing
Neymar has travelled to Brazil as he edges ever closer to a highly-anticipated return to boyhood club Santos. It was at Santos where Neymar first captivated footballing audiences, bursting onto the scene as the next superstar to arise from Brazilian shores. After helping guide the club to a Copa Libertadores title in 2011, he departed Santos
Temperatures were rising inside the plane. Eighty-eight Brazilian deportees, most of them handcuffed and shackled, were getting restless on Friday under the watch of U.S. immigration agents. The passenger jet, dealing with repeated technical problems, was stuck on the tarmac in a sweltering city in the Amazon rainforest. Then the air conditioning broke — again.
A Colombian Air Force jet was expected to land back in the country early Tuesday carrying 110 Colombians deported from the United States.The flight from San Diego, along with another traveling from Houston back to Colombia, follows a dispute sparked Sunday when Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow U.S. military planes to send deported
A state of emergency has been declared in southern Brazil after heavy rain caused flooding in coastal cities including Balneário Camboriú and Itapema. Footage shows partially submerged cars navigating flooded streets and Itapema Mayor Alexandre Xepa calling for aid and rescue assistance.