Gisele Bundchen bid adieu to the catwalk, strutting her stuff at an emotionally charged show in Sao Paulo that she said will be her last stroll down a runway in a 20-year career that has made her a fashion legend.

Gisele Bundchen bid adieu to the catwalk, strutting her stuff at an emotionally charged show in Sao Paulo.

An underwired bra saved a woman’s life after she was struck near the heart by a stray bullet.

Brazilian police have arrested a man who allegedly has confessed to the murders of more than 40 people since 2005.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari believes Mexico are good enough to cause his side plenty of problems when the two Group A leaders clash in Fortaleza on Tuesday.

Indigenous protesters in traditional headdress clashed with police in Brazil’s capital, resulting in one officer being shot in the leg with an arrow.

Racing driver’s death at Imola 20 years ago traumatised a nation who loved him like no other.

A Rio de Janeiro slum has erupted in violence following the killing of a popular local figure, with residents starting fires and hurling home-made explosives and bottles in the city’s main tourist zone.

City leaders in Sao Paulo say they are reversing a hike in bus and subway fares which has sparked widespread protests across Brazil.

An American woman was gang-raped and beaten while her French boyfriend was shackled, hit with a crowbar, and forced to watch the attacks in Rio de Janeiro.

At least 13 people have been killed in mudslides triggered by torrential rains in a mountain town north of Rio de Janeiro, state officials said.

A Brazilian state judge has approved what the court said is the nation’s first gay marriage.

Grieving families gathered today to bury 12 children gunned down in the halls of their Rio de Janeiro school, an unheard-of act of school violence which left stunned Brazilians struggling for answers.

At least 13 people are now thought to have been killed after a gunman opened fire in a Rio de Janeiro elementary school, Brazilian officials said.

Gunmen engaged in a shootout with police took 30 people hostage today at a luxury Brazilian hotel popular with foreign tourists, but within hours freed the captives and surrendered.

A STAR goalkeeper in Brazil is accused of ordering the murder of his ex-lover whose body parts were then fed to the dogs.

A television news helicopter today crashed near a busy road in Brazil's largest city, killing the pilot and seriously injuring a cameraman on board.

A Brazilian man has publicly confessed to pushing dozens of needles into his two-year-old stepson, saying in a jail cell interview that he intended to kill the boy out of spite for his wife and didn’t think he would be discovered.

A shootout between Brazilian police and Rio de Janeiro gang members has left five suspects dead near the famed Copacabana beach.

ZURICH police were last night investigating an alleged skinhead assault on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins and left her scarred with the initials of Switzerland’s main right-wing party.

BRAZILIAN police were searching yesterday for the head, arms and legs of a British teenager whose grisly murder, allegedly by her Brazilian boyfriend, has shocked Brazil and Britain.

The agent of Real Madrid forward Robinho claims Chelsea are prepared to offer around £28m to take the Brazil star to Stamford Bridge.

A crew of Brazilian fishermen was captured on video killing 83 dolphins and joking about their illegal haul, Brazil’s Ibama environmental protection agency said today.

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.

Real Madrid have called a press conference for later today at which the club are expected to announce the appointment of Wanderley Luxemburgo as coach.

A BRITISH-BORN South African man appeared in a Johannesburg court yesterday accused of being part of an international human organ trafficking syndicate.

At least 16 people were killed today when a rocket exploded on its launch pad while undergoing final pre-launch tests, Brazilian military officials said.

Brazilian top model Gisele Bundchen is to donate the $150,000 (€138,200) she will earn in a show in Sao Paulo Fashion Week to a new Brazilian government campaign to fight hunger.

A Brazilian who's just finished 111,000 sit-ups in 24 hours says he won't do another for months.

Brazil's most notorious organised crime group has led uprisings in five prisons leaving at least seven dead.