Their startling, up-close, all-formats story earns the Beat of the Week. To gain the confidence of drug traffickers who control the slums, photographer Felipe Dana, a native Brazilian who has covered ...

The Brazilian Federal Police announced that beginning December an unmanned “spy” aircraft will over-fly the shanty towns of Rio do Janeiro at a height of 7.000 metres, well out of range from ...

Exclusive: Leeds United's once prized asset came from the slums of Porto Alegre to become one of the Premier League's most ...

Brazilian security forces seized control of two crime-ridden ‘favelas’ slums near Rio do Janeiro’s international airport and seaport Sunday in a new bid to drive out drug traffickers ahead ...

With the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro quickly approaching, Brazil expects over half a million foreign tourists. Given the crime rate in Rio, local officials have declared war on major ...

THE death of a dancer allegedly killed by police in a Rio de Janeiro slum near Copacabana beach ... As many as 2,000 people are killed by Brazilian police each year, according to Amnesty ...