Sao Paulo Fire

Huge tracts of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of the planet by taking in carbon dioxide, storing it in soils and producing oxygen, are ablaze. Smoke from the widespread fires has turned day into night in Sao Paulo, and intensified a controversy over the Brazilian government's land use policies.

A gunman opened fire in a cathedral in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas, near Sao Paulo, on Tuesday, killing at least five worshippers before committing suicide, police said. Paramedics told media the man fired a revolver and a .38-caliber pistol inside the cathedral, also wounding several people before killing himself.

A 22-story abandoned office building occupied by hundreds of squatters was engulfed in flames and collapsed in the centre of Sao Paulo early Tuesday, shooting a massive black cloud of smoke into the sky and red-hot chunks of debris into nearby structures.

Members of 2017 Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton's team were robbed at gunpoint in Brazil. The Mercedes-AMG F1 crew were returning back to their hotel from the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace circuit in Sao Paulo, where their minibus was ambushed by armed men at around 10 pm (local time). Hamilton tweeted saying that gunshots were fired and a mem...

Police in Sao Paulo fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets on Thursday to break up an anti-World Cup protest on the morning the Brazilian mega-city hosts the tournament's opening match.

Heavily armed men stormed a Sao Paulo bus depot on Tuesday, setting some three dozen buses on fire in attack police believed was linked to organized crime.

A woman was killed and four people were wounded when a man opened fire at a church service in Sao Paulo, Brazilian media reported today.

A fire ravaged Copersucar's sugar terminal in Brazil on Friday, paralyzing operations of the world's biggest sugar trader and putting 10 million tonnes of export capacity offline for six months or more.

A judge in southern Brazil ordered 30 more days of detention on Friday for the owners of a nightclub and band members involved in a fire that killed 236 in the college town of Santa Maria last weekend.

There were dramatic scenes at Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport earlier this month when 15,000 fans turned up to wave the Copa Libertadores winners off, some reportedly setting off fire extinguishers and blocking roads.

A fire has raged through a Brazilian slum, destroying more than 300 homes.Residents of the Real Parque neighborhood in Sao Paulo were frantically using buckets of water in an attempt to douse the flames that burned through their houses -- many little more than shacks. Firefighters arrived around noon Friday and it took three hours to control the bl...

Huge tracts of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of the planet by taking in carbon dioxide, storing it in soils and producing oxygen, are ablaze. Smoke from the widespread fires has turned day into night in Sao Paulo, and intensified a controversy over the Brazilian government's land use policies.

A gunman opened fire in a cathedral in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas, near Sao Paulo, on Tuesday, killing at least five worshippers before committing suicide, police said. Paramedics told media the man fired a revolver and a .38-caliber pistol inside the cathedral, also wounding several people before killing himself.

A 22-story abandoned office building occupied by hundreds of squatters was engulfed in flames and collapsed in the centre of Sao Paulo early Tuesday, shooting a massive black cloud of smoke into the sky and red-hot chunks of debris into nearby structures.

Members of 2017 Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton's team were robbed at gunpoint in Brazil. The Mercedes-AMG F1 crew were returning back to their hotel from the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace circuit in Sao Paulo, where their minibus was ambushed by armed men at around 10 pm (local time). Hamilton tweeted saying that gunshots were fired and a mem...

Police in Sao Paulo fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets on Thursday to break up an anti-World Cup protest on the morning the Brazilian mega-city hosts the tournament's opening match.

Heavily armed men stormed a Sao Paulo bus depot on Tuesday, setting some three dozen buses on fire in attack police believed was linked to organized crime.

A woman was killed and four people were wounded when a man opened fire at a church service in Sao Paulo, Brazilian media reported today.

A fire ravaged Copersucar's sugar terminal in Brazil on Friday, paralyzing operations of the world's biggest sugar trader and putting 10 million tonnes of export capacity offline for six months or more.

A judge in southern Brazil ordered 30 more days of detention on Friday for the owners of a nightclub and band members involved in a fire that killed 236 in the college town of Santa Maria last weekend.

There were dramatic scenes at Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport earlier this month when 15,000 fans turned up to wave the Copa Libertadores winners off, some reportedly setting off fire extinguishers and blocking roads.

A fire has raged through a Brazilian slum, destroying more than 300 homes.Residents of the Real Parque neighborhood in Sao Paulo were frantically using buckets of water in an attempt to douse the flames that burned through their houses -- many little more than shacks. Firefighters arrived around noon Friday and it took three hours to control the bl...