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World Cup: the boos from Brazil

 

The football showpiece promises the best of the beautiful game – but protests are growing at the amount of public money spent, says Donna Bowater

05 Mar 2014

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Carnival cuisine: Brazilian recipes

 

In this edited extract from her new book 'Edible Atlas’, Mina Holland argues that the hearty, savoury,one-pot dishes of Brazil deserve to be more widely known and enjoyed

03 Mar 2014

Fatboy Slim: 'I thought as long as we were upstairs, no one would die'

 

After the recent storms battered his home, Fatboy Slim is looking forward to starting the party in Brazil, he tells Cole Moreton

02 Mar 2014

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Brazil revellers celebrate the first day of carnival

 

Hundreds of revellers from around the world dressed up as Carmelite nuns to celebrate the first day of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

01 Mar 2014

Sao Paulo deploys unarmed jiu jitsu squad for anti-World Cup protests

 

The World Cup has become a symbol of the government’s gross profligacy to many Brazilians, who say that money should instead be spent on public services

24 Feb 2014

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Meteotsunami hits Brazilian beach

A bizarre weather phenomenon, known as a meteorological tsunami, hits the Brazilian coast causing cars to crash across the beach

12 Feb 2014

Clarice Lispector: 'Morbidly insensitive'

Books 40 years after her death, the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector is now compared to Joyce and Borges. But, Nicholas Shakespeare asks, do her radical works deserve such praise?

01 Feb 2014

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Five tribesmen arrested in Amazon over suspected revenge killing

Arrests followed disappearance of three outsiders amid long running dispute over a motorway running through tribal land

31 Jan 2014

Hodgson on Amazon charm offensive

Hodgson back-tracks on comments about avoiding Manaus in the World Cup and promises visit

31 Jan 2014

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Brazilian man killed in same plane he proposed to girlfriend in

Pilot instructor has died in a crash in the same plane he used to propose to his girlfriend in Brazil just over a month ago

30 Jan 2014

World Cup riots in Brazil trigger riots and arrests

Brazil hit by riots against the World Cup as protest marches are taken over by anarchists

26 Jan 2014

World Cup protesters set fire to car

Violence erupts on the streets of Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo as more than 2,000 demonstrators gathered to protest against the cost of the upcoming soccer World Cup

26 Jan 2014

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World Cup protests spark violence in Brazil

Brazilians are outraged to see hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the cup when health and education require urgent massive investment

26 Jan 2014

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Boy escapes death in shocking crash

Video Shocking footage shows a grandmother and grandson in Brazil being run over after two cars crashed in Brazil but they survive with minor injuries

24 Jan 2014

Rio's Christ the Redeemer to undergo repairs after being hit by lightning

Iconic statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro suffered a lightning strike which damaged one of its fingers and head

20 Jan 2014

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Christ the Redeemer statue hit by lightning

Rio de Janeiro's landmark Christ the Redeemer statue has been struck by lightning during a powerful electric storm

18 Jan 2014

Redeemer statue struck by lightning

Iconic statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro sees right thumb damaged by lightning strike

18 Jan 2014

Brazil raises rates again to tackle inflation

Central bank's monetary policy committee voted unanimously to raise the so-called Selic rate to 10.50pc from 10pc - its highest in two years

15 Jan 2014

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England fans' World Cup price boost

Up to 1,500 extra internal flights will help keep costs down for England supporters travelling to the World Cup

10 Jan 2014

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Anger at Brazil prison beheadings video

Brazilian newspapers publish a video in which prisoners at a jail in Maranhao State are decapitated by rival gang members

10 Jan 2014

Gunfights loom over Rio's World Cup preparations

Security forces beef up presence in city's largest shanty town to try and quell violence undermining pacification efforts ahead of 2014 tournament

29 Dec 2013

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Troops dispatched after attack on tribal reserve

Security forces enter Tenharim indigenous community in Amazon after invasion by local townspeople forces tribe members to flee

28 Dec 2013

Mudslide sweeps down hillside in Brazil

Footage captures the moment a mudslide came down the side of a hill in Brazil sending residents fleeing for safety

20 Dec 2013

Criminals, not heroes

Telegraph View: Ronnie Biggs had a violent thirst for money

18 Dec 2013

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Volkswagen Kombi could live on

Two days before production of the VW Kombi van is scheduled to end, it has emerged that the famous model could be set to make a comeback

18 Dec 2013

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