BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, falls on Saturday this year. Various ...

"Assaults, including with sedatives and drugs placed in drinks, are common, especially in Rio de Janeiro," the State Department adds ... comunidades or conglomerados and the "Satellite Cities" of ...

Months before Lindbergh made history, Brazil’s João Ribeiro de Barros crossed the Atlantic in a salvaged S.55 flying boat.

Rio de Janeiro’s mayor has loosened new restrictions on live music on the city’s beaches after many people warned of a threat ...

Rio de Janeiro's iconic beaches are poised for a significant change. The familiar sounds of samba music, the readily ...

A general view of the closing ceremony before the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, July 13, 2014 ...

In the exercise called Dragoon Fury, the French Navy used its amphibious helicopter carrier Tonnerre as a drone platform.

Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall is rolling out new rules to control beachside activities due to come into force on June 1.

ARMED with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly ...

Objective To describe the pattern of injuries and illnesses sustained during the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, hosted by Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August 2016. Methods We recorded the daily incidence ...

Twenty-five years have passed since the initial observation of endemic zoonotic sporotrichosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since then, this disease has spread throughout South America. Accompanying the ...

Satellite-based mapping can provide valuable information ... Lagos, Medellin, Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Shenzhen. Slums in these cities are greatly heterogeneous inits ...