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RIO DE JANEIRO: Sean Goldman, a nine-year-old boy at the centre of a long and bitter US-Brazil custody battle, is to be handed over to his American father in Rio de Janeiro early Thursday, a US lawmaker here told AFP.  

[Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; December 21. Image via Getty.] A woman bathes at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 21, 2009. Rio de Janeiro reached over 35 degrees celsius of temperature on the first day of the summer. AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)  

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's chief justice has ruled in favor of an American man seeking to gain custody of his son. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's chief justice has ruled in favor of an American man seeking to gain custody of his son. Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes' Tuesday ruling lifts a stay on a federal court's order for Brazilian relatives to hand over the boy. That puts David Goldman one...  

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil will spend $280 million to renovate Maracana Stadium, closing the historic venue next year to spruce up the centerpiece of the 2014 World Cup.  

RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium, which is due to stage the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics as well as the 2014 World Cup final, is to get a 300 million US dollars face-lift, announced the city’s Secretary of ...  

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starting today, US Airways (NYSE:LCC) will begin connecting customers from more than 80 cities in the United States with South America as it launches daily, nonstop service from its hub at Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The year-round service, which originates at the airline’s Philadelphia hub, will be operated on Boeing 767 aircraft with seating for 18 in Envoy, US Airways...  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labeled in police reports as the deaths of suspects who resisted arrest, the report said. The 122-page declaration echoes a 2008 United Nations' finding...  

The construction of a major highway around the city of Rio de Janeiro has been partly stopped due to the discovery of a small frog under threat of extinction. The planned superhighway goes straight through a forest that is home to 30 species of amphibians and numerous other animals. This is the only place on earth that the tiny, rare frog can be found. Conservationists are concerned that if this part of the forest is paved over the frog and...  

16th Latin Oil Week 2010 22nd -24th March 2010 Rio de Janeiro http://www.petro21.com/events/index.cfm?id=477 Contact: babette@glopac.com This 16th Annual Latin Upstream is a key event for the Latin American Continent, focused on the exploration industry, gas-LNG and GTL - with Speakers from Latin America and worldwide on competition, National Oil Companies, strategy and portfolio, new ventures, new hydrocarbon potential, regional risks and...  

Legendary and mythical "Baianas" are one of the most known characters of the Brazilian Carnaval and surely represent the utmost samba tradition and authenticity (aside with the Flag-Bearers and Samba-hosts). Foreigners and Brazilians simply fall under a spell when they 'float' through the Sambadrome´s runaway. Some of the "Baianas", having more than 90 years old, still show plenty of vigor and charisma, as they are reverenced by public and...  

Rio de Janeiro, Dec 8 (EFE) The Brazilian government will soon open the bidding process to build a high-speed train line that will link Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, authorities said. A meeting was held Monday between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the ministers to be involved in the project, which will require [...]  

(Rio de Janeiro) - Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo routinely resort to lethal force, often committing extrajudicial executions and exacerbating violence in both states, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. read more  

Ahead of Iranian president's arrival in country, protestors from pro-Israel organizations and groups for homosexuals' rights gather in Rio de Janeiro, urge Brazilian president to teach his guests that 'racism is a crime'. Thousands of demonstrators from different religions took part Sunday in a march for peace and against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro. Faced with mounting pressure over his country's...  

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil–Police in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, a Human Rights Watch report says ... to violent crime," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at ...  

"The state government walled us in, so more houses wouldn't be built in the forest" Officials say the wall is needed to keep the regions from spreading further into jungle Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Cement-block walls are being built around the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro.