Brazil

Brazil is placed on alert following an oil spill in Ecuador that has already caused damage in Peru.

As both teams looked to improve their qualifying position, Jamaica and the United States played a great game that included another Jozy Altidore goal and plenty of late-game heroics.

The latest FIFA rankings are out and to no surprise, defending World Cup champion Spain comes in at No. 1. Having not played a qualifier this month, where did perennial power Brazil fall in the poll?

As World Cup qualifying continues, the USA and Jamaica are in need of points as both teams eye a trip to the 2014 World Cup. Find out when and where to watch this crucial men’s qualifier from Kingston, Jamaica.

The Brazilian Health Ministry has pulled ads for a safe sex program featuring a "Happy Prostitute."

In need of a win, Mexico and Jamaica will meet in a crucial World Cup qualifying match. Find out when and where to watch the contest that will be played from the Kingston National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.

With the 2014 World Cup approaching, FIFA has set a date where tickets will be available worldwide to fans wishing to attend the event in Brazil.

See the work of artist Narcélio Grud and his symbolic statement on food wastage.

Brazil's national judicial panel states same sex couples cannot be denied marriage.

Find out more about the newly discovered Brazilian 'Atlantis' and see the footage of the discovery.

After a six-month battle with Mexico's Herminio Blanco, Roberto Azevedo wins WTO race, becomes first Latino to head the organization.

Is Brazil's caxirola the new vuvuzela?

A Brazilian man gets his eyeball tattooed and cries ink for two days. Learn more.

The stadium will host the World Cup final next year as well as matches in the 2016 Olympics.

Damião Paridzané was nine years old in 1966 when the Brazilian Air Force loaded him and hundreds of other Xavante Indians onto a cargo plane.

Babies have died in a Brazilian hospital after a bacteria outbreak.

A Brazilian federal prosecutor has opened an investigation into allegations that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was involved in a vote-buying scheme in Congress that led to the conviction of close aides for corruption.

Tickets range from $65 to $130 and will grant access to the seven days of music acts.

A map issued by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs recommends a "high degree of caution" in Brazil, which will host the World Cup in 2014.

Three suspects have been arrested after being identified by the victims.

Three men have been arrested in the gang rape of an American female tourist in Brazil.

Olympian Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the 150-meter race at the season opener in Brazil on Easter Sunday. But did he break the world record?

Police evicted two dozen Amazon natives on Friday from an old Indian museum that will be demolished to clear areas adjacent to Brazil's legendary Maracana soccer stadium, the main venue for next year's World Cup.

The actress is postponing rehab and flying to São Paulo to appear in a clothing commercial.

Clube Atlético Mineiro will celebrate their 105th anniversary on Monday.

Brazil's beloved TV news anchor is saying goodbye to her viewers. Where is Ana Paula Pãdrao headed?

Early on Wednesday morning, Brazilian singer Emílio Santiago died at age 66.

Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, was greeted on Monday by a small group of protesters calling her a CIA agent upon arriving in Brazil, the first stop on a whirlwind tour that will take her to a dozen countries.

Prosecutors in southern Brazil, where 235 people died when a fire ravaged the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria last weekend, are investigating whether city leaders and inspectors were negligent in allowing the club to operate.

Brazilian police on Monday detained the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 231 people as well as two band members whose pyrotechnics they say triggered the blaze as the focus turned to finding those responsible for the tragedy.