Madonnaperformed the final show of herCelebration Tourto 1.6 million fans at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach on Saturday night -- a record for a stand-alone show, according to tour organizer Live Nation. The tour, which celebrate...

Booking.com users have spoken of their anger at the company's failure to stop them falling victim to cyber-criminals. For at least a year, fraudsters have been able to infiltrate its app and trick users out of hundreds of pounds....

Brazil has declared a six-month animal health emergency after several cases of avian flu were found in wild birds. Seven cases have been reported in Espirito Santo state, with another discovered in Rio de Janeiro state. The emerg...

Elon Musk has said Twitter will only allow accounts with a blue tick to vote on changes to policy after a majority of users voted for him to quit. Mr Musk launched a Twitter poll asking if he should step down as chief executive - 57.5% of...

  Facebook users around the world have been waking up to find themselves locked out of their accounts for no apparent reason. The message many received reads: "Your Facebook account was disabled because it did not follow our C...

  Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, official data shows. A report by Brazil's space research agency (Inpe) found that deforestation increased by 22% in a year. Brazil w...

  Users yet to accept new terms and conditions for the messaging platform WhatsApp will start to get "persistent" reminders after the 15 May deadline. The changes relate primarily to the way businesses interact with custo...

  Brazil has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time, as a more contagious variant fuels a surge in cases. Hospitals are overcrowded, with people dying as they wait for treatment in some cities,...

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As Brazil approaches 20,000 coronavirus deaths, its government is under ever more scrutiny - in particular its controversial President, Jair Bolsonaro. Ros Atkins looks at how Brazil became central to the global pandemic....

  A newly-released tool that exploits a vulnerability in Facebook’s WhatsApp allows you to "put words in people’s mouths", researchers say. A team from cybersecurity firm Checkpoint has demonstrated how the tool can be us...

  Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messaging app WhatsApp, it has been confirmed. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, said the attack targeted a "sele...

  Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of the border with Brazil amid a row over foreign humanitarian aid. The leftist leader went on TV to say he was also considering shutting the border with Colombia ...

  Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro has won a sweeping victory in Brazil's presidential election. Mr Bolsonaro won 55.2% of the votes cast against 44.8% for Fernando Haddad from the left-wing Workers' Party, the Brazilian electoral authority ...

The front-runner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has been stabbed at a campaign rally. The far-right politician was attacked amid a crowd in the south-east state of Minas Gerais. A suspect was arrested. Mr Bolsonaro had surgery f...

  Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company's own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed ...

The trip to Medellin, Colombia, was supposed to be a joyous one for the members Chapecoense, a soccer club from the small city of Chapeco, Brazil, and they were in the middle of a fairy tale season. Now their journey will go down in history ...

A Brazil soccer fan covered in flowers and his nation's flag cheers inside the FIFA Fan fest area before the start of the World Cup soccer game between Brazil and Croatia on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12, 2014. Brazil's M...

  Nintendo's forthcoming 3DS game machine will not only play games in 3-D, it will also be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix. During a keynote speech(重要讲话) that marked the opening of the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo ...

Ruth Hins owns a grocery store(杂货店) and bakery(面包店) in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Cantagalo, where she used to live. She is one of 35.5 million Brazilians who have moved from humble beginnings into the middle class since 2003. Another 20 m...