A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Sixteen girls from one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums have celebrated a fairy-tale evening in a debutante ball sponsored by local police. The 15-year-old girls from Mangueira ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Like his house, Jose Santos de Oliveira is an island of resistance. The middle-aged gardener and his home stand amid the sea of rubble that remains of the slum community of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Top officials from Rio de Janeiro said Friday they want elite federal police and possibly army troops sent to the city to help quell a wave of violence in so-called "pacified" ...

Like his house, Jose Santos de Oliveira is an island of resistance. The middle-aged gardener and his home stand amid the sea of rubble that remains of the slum community of Vila Recreio 2 in the west ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security ...

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 ...

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 ...

The residents of Rio de Janeiro's slums are accustomed to seeing the police come in with guns blazing. But in Santa Marta, one of Rio's oldest slums, or favelas, the police are trying an entirely ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Edmilson Venturelli has something different to offer slum kids accustomed to the gunfire, police sirens and gangsta rap that echo through the city's largest shantytown — Bee-thoven ...

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 ...