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England will be hoping for a repeat of 1997 rather than 1973 when they play Poland tonight in a World Cup qualifier.
British holidaymakers will find their travel money goes nearly 23 per cent further in Brazil this year, but visitors to the USA will get less for their sterling.
Jon Snow
In an age where there is a paucity of global leaders, former Brazilian president Lula is someone the world can ill afford to lose. We should wish him well as he goes under the knife later today.
Same-sex couples are to be given the same legal rights as married heterosexuals in Brazil following a landmark gay rights case.
A German boy confesses to throwing a banana onto a football pitch during the Scotland Brazil game which prompted Brazilian player Neymar to say he was the victim of racial abuse. Keme Nzerem reports.
As the number of people killed in the Brazil floods passes the 500 mark, one scientist tells Channel 4 News that replacing coastal vegetation with urban development has contributed to the disaster.
At least 388 people died as mudslides and floods swept through Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, in one of Brazil’s worst natural disasters for decades, as Alex Thomson discovers.
Brazil’s president-elect Dilma Rousseff has vowed to build on the policies of her predecessor which aim to eliminate poverty while improving economic stability.
Brazilian voters has started to elect a new President, with left-leaning civil servant Dilma Rousseff the favourite to take over from popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Jon Snow
Goldman Sachs was right when, earlier this century, its chief economist came up with the concept of the BRIC economies…these were the big economies likely to make it into the top league in the first part of the 21st century: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Channel 4 News spends a week in Brazil and finds an emerging economic power house approaching environmental crossroads.
Jon Snow
I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his…
Jon Snow
World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must understand that Brazil is a vast CO2-sapping country with a surging carbon-emitting economy, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
Jon Snow
I’ve been in Brazil for three days now, but only just woken up to the reality that the humungous city of Sao Paolo is only the beginning of it. This morning I broke out, and we drove more than 400 kilometres west – a distance, well, heading from London to well past Newcastle. Let me…
Jon Snow is not the only one in Brazil this week. While he is there exploring Brazil’s response to climate change, Middle Eastern leaders have also been flying in for some high profile visits. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – Lula to you and I – has been hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in…