Growing up in Brazil, Edson Arantes do Nascimento so hated the nonsensical nickname his grade school playmates used to tease him that he would fight anyone who dared call him “Pelé.” Before he had ...

She started sniffing glue at age six to ease the hunger of life in a Brazilian slum. She got her first revolver when she was 11. Now 54, Raquel de Oliveira, once the first lady of the drug trade in ...

Rio police will boost their presence in a violent slum controlled by drug gangs as authorities crack down on crime in the final countdown to the World Cup, an official source said Tuesday. The source ...

Brazilian security forces have occupied a Rio de Janeiro favela in a bid to remove drug gangs from the city ahead of the World Cup this summer. In a dawn raid on Sunday, police swarmed the Mare slum, ...

On May 24, the same day 19 students and two teachers were murdered in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Brazilians also had their share of gun violence in Rio de Janeiro. Before ...

A favela (Brazilian slum) in Rio de Janeiro now has a soccer field that harvests energy through the steps of kids playing on it, providing energy to the surrounding neighborhood. In its largest ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Using mobile health technology to monitor patients in poor urban areas could improve residents’ access to health care while also reducing health care spending, a study conducted ...

The favelas of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil may have a reputation for violence and crime, but one slum experienced a dramatic change of fortune after a peace-keeping police force moved in there ...

Pelé, the soccer player who rose from an impoverished Brazilian slum to become the most famous and, for a time, the best-paid athlete in the world during a spectacular career that produced more World ...