Authorities in Rio de Janeiro defended the city’s ability to control violence ahead of the World Cup and Olympic Games after drug traffickers shot down a police helicopter, killing two officers.

Brazil’s government asked the United Nations Security Council to convene an emergency meeting over a standoff in Honduras with the nation’s deposed president taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy.

A twin-engine plane crashed near a private airport in a northeastern coastal Brazil resort area, killing all 11 people aboard.

Exxon says it has discovered oil in deep water off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, near massive fields that could hold as much as 80 billion barrels, it was reported today.

All flights from Brazil’s airports have been suspended amid a protest by striking air traffic controllers.

There were no survivors among the 155 people on board the Brazilian jetliner that was in collision with a smaller plane and crashed in the Amazon rainforest in the nation’s worst air disaster.

Rock star and activist Bono will donate one of his guitars to Brazil’s Zero Hunger campaign, Agencia Brasil, the government’s official news agency said today.

The Brazilian general commanding UN peacekeeping force in Haiti has been found dead in the Haitian capital, the official Agencia Brasil news agency said today.

Seven teenagers were beaten to death and five others were injured in a rebellion at a juvenile detention centre in southern Brazil, police and witnesses said today.