During Brazil's Carnival season, locals are rooting hard for their country's entry at the Oscars, "The Secret Agent." The film is up for four awards, including Best Picture.

RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – Newlywed Akiko Ishihama let out a nervous laugh when asked if she realized that she was honeymooning on a beach well known for deadly shark attacks. "Not at all," she answered as ...

RECIFE, BRAZIL — Ines Maria da Silva stares blankly outside her shack as she tells how she lost all five of her sons to the violence that makes Recife the deadliest major city in Brazil. The first son ...

Brazil’s Northeast is woefully underknown to foreign travelers. It doesn’t help perhaps that the region is made up of a series a small sliver-shaped states with names that challenge the Anglophone ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Recife is the capital city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast of Brazil. The pulse of Carnival has been growing in a crescendo in recent days, justly honoring it's fame of being among the ...

It’s a Sunday in the Brazilian city of Recife, but a team of infectious disease, pediatric and neurology experts are working overtime, huddled in a back room of the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital. They are ...

Recife, a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, has some of the most enticing beaches in the country. When it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit and the sun is blazing overhead, nothing is more exciting ...

The cradle of Brazilian Jewry is seeing the return of hundreds whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity centuries ago. RECIFE, Brazil (JTA) — Preparing to leave this city’s main Jewish ...