Melbourne, July 4 : The Brazilian wax may have become a thing of the past, for loads of people in Australia are now opting for butt facials, the new deep cleansing beauty treatment concentrating on below the belt...

C ARSON, Calif. — Osael Romero scored two goals, including the winner in the 86th minute, to give El Salvador a 2-1 victory over Costa Rica in Group A at the Gold Cup on Friday night. El...

Brazil's air force has released a recording it says proves it handed over control of Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed.The audio has been posted on the air force...

Several years ago, I moved to South America. During my first few months there, I became fast friends with a local man. He was a wonderful source of help during an otherwise lonely time. After several...

U.S right back Steve Cherundolo has been hurt since November. He had hip surgery in April. The 30-year-old defender was home last month while the Americans shocked top-ranked Spain in the...

Brazil’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court to legalise same-sex unions in the South American nation, which is home to the world’s largest Roman Catholic population, her spokeswoman...

Brazil's Air Force released a statement on Friday in which it denies any errors in the Air France Flight 447 case, and said it warned the Senegalese air traffic control that the Air France's Flight...

Teams from beach volleyball powers Brazil and United States will vie for the women's medals at the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Championships as their beach volleyball tandems won a pair of matches each...

Brazil's construction company Odebrecht believes that Libya will maintain for many years its current growth potential, driven by the country's economic opening and oil exports. The Brazilian...

Brazilian contractor Odebrecht, aside from know-how, material, equipment, and machinery, had to bring to Libya an army of workers of 31 different nationalities to carry out the construction that it...

Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil saw its exports grow 22.9% in June in comparison with May and totaled US$ 1.63 billion. This was the second best result achieved this year by the state,...

The president of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick, stated that Latin American largest countries are better prepared now than in the past to face the world crisis, based on strong budgets and...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - El Salvador and Canada enjoyed victories on the first day of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the regional tournament for North and Central America and the...

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Los Angeles -- For all its miscues at home, General Motors Corp. has built a powerhouse operation in Latin America, where its fuel-efficient vehicles could play...

By Brian Ellsworth and Denise LunaRIO DE JANEIRO, July 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's state oil company Petrobras expects exploration of an Iranian block will yield disappointing results, a company...

Reigning nine-time ASP world champion Kelly Slater has claimed the 2009 Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro to win his first event of the year.Brazilian Adriano de Souza raced out to an early lead before...

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Pressure on Brazil's Senate President Jose Sarney to step down increased again after he was accused of hiding from the Electoral Court an ownership of a house worth...

MEXICO CITY, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted on Sunday from Honduras' presidency, left El Salvador Friday night after a whistle-stop visit, according to news reaching here. Zelaya,...

Iain Tait, 24, left, Justin Lemire, 18, and Mitchell Lapointe, 18, right, prepare to board a bus Thursday, July 2, which took them and 15 others from Scouts Canada to Detroit Airport. The group will...

A recording between Brazilian and Senegalese air traffic controllers relating to the crashed Air France plane has been released. The Airbus jet went missing on June 1 during a flight from Rio de...

In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009, a live pigeon carrying a makeshift backpack containing a cell phone is shown in Sao Paulo, Brazil....

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Two events at the opposite ends of Latin America last Sunday seemed liked isolated events.But Argentine voters' stinging rejection of President Cristina Fernandez and her...

For years, the Salar de Uyuni has been a remote but popular tourist draw in southern Bolivia: the world's highest salt desert, whose blinding white expanse stretches to the horizon. Now, though, the...

Lula will tell the world's eight largest economies to be more flexible in what they ask from developing nations in response to the global economic crisis and climate change. "Developing countries...

(AP) — SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador has confirmed its first swine flu death. A federal health department statement released Friday says a 9-year-old boy died of respiratory...

saw electricity generation fall 3.4% in June compared with the month before, according to preliminary data released by national grid operator ONS on...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday issued a law giving tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants legal status and criticized rich nations for taking a tough stance against...

Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed. The audio has been posted on the air force Web site after a French official said air traffic controllers in Dakar, Senegal, never...

(AP) — SAO PAULO - Brazilian stocks are down for the second day in a row after weak U.S. jobs data raised doubts about recovery for the world's biggest economy. Sao Paulo's Ibovespa was off...

The ghost of the other, deadlier 9/11 has returned to stalk Latin America. On Sunday morning, a battalion of soldiers rammed their way into the Presidential Palace in Honduras. They surrounded the...

Argentina want to play arch-rivals Brazil at Rosario Central and not River Plate in their World Cup qualifier on Sept. 5 to generate more support from the fans, coach Diego Maradona said on...

BRASILIA: China and Brazil have maintained close exchanges and cooperation between their legislatures, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Thursday. Liu Yunshan, member of...

The Brazilian government set its inflation target for 2011 at 4.5%, seeing no evidence of significant inflationary pressures going forward. May consumer price inflation or IPCA, was 0.47%, and 5.2%...

Plummeting automobile sales may by a worldwide concern, but not for General Motors Brazil (GM), which posted a monthly record-high sales figure in the Brazilian domestic market in June. The company...

Latin American stocks tumbled to six-day lows on Thursday as unemployment hit an unexpected 26-year high in the U.S., the world's biggest economy, potentially delaying a rebound in demand for the...

Brazil's president has signed a new law allowing tens of thousands of illegal aliens to become permanent residents of Latin America's biggest country.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the law...

SAO PAULO -- Sao Paulo state officials have launched what they say is Latin America's first passenger bus with an electric engine powered by hydrogen fuel...

Bayern Munich's Brazilian midfield Ze Roberto has joined German Bundesliga powerhouse Hamburger SV on a free transfer, the Hamburg club announced on Thursday. The 34-year-old has signed a two-year...

China's state-controlled group Chinalco yesterday confirmed it had taken up its full entitlement in Rio Tinto's $15.2bn share issue to maintain its 9 per cent shareholding in the miner, in spite of...

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday signed a decree to take in illegal immigrants entering the country before Feb. 1. "This is a generous...

Rio Tinto says it has completed one of the world's biggest rights issues now Australian shareholders have taken up almost 95 per cent of their entitlements to new shares. Yesterday, the debt-laden...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Equities across Latin America fell Thursday after bleak U.S. monthly jobs report rekindled questions about when economic recovery will solidly take root. Brazil's...

The Australian leg of the issue - designed to partly relieve the miner of its debt burden - raised $4.02 billion. The company said this morning it received valid acceptances for about 142.15 million...

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya protest in front of the National Congress in Tegucigalpa Thursday. The EU pulled its ambassadors from Honduras in protest of the coup Thursday...

Bede Durbidge survived a testing bout with ASP Dream Tour rookie Michel Bourez to advance to the final 16 surfers and keep his defence of the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro title alive.The 26-year-old...

Vote South Florida executives are planning a business mission to Brazil from Sept. 19 through Sept. 26, with visits to the cities of Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte. The trip is organized by...

In Brazil General Motors car sales broke a record in June thanks to continued Brazilian government tax breaks for auto makers, the company said Wednesday, July 1st. The company said sales...

La Paz: President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America's historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in...

-(Dow Jones)- China's JAC Motors is to build a vehicle plant at the Acu port complex in Rio de Janeiro State, the Rio state government said in a ...

Four months into his remarkable return to football, Ronaldo is getting used to winning titles again.The veteran striker helped Corinthians clinch the Brazilian Cup on Wednesday, lifting his second...