At least 16 people were feared dead today after a light aircraft on its way to a Brazilian jungle city crashed into an Amazon river with at least 20 people on board.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven have left the international space station, ending a 12-day visit to give the orbiting complex better living quarters for bigger crews.

A Peruvian geographic society claims the long-disputed source of the Amazon River was correctly identified in 1996 by Polish explorer Jacek Palkiewicz, despite claims by the US-based National Geographic Society to the contrary.

A VENEZUELAN passenger plane slammed into a steep mountainside in the Andes, killing all 46 people on board, officials said yesterday.

At least 10 people have died after a ferry carrying more than 100 passengers collided with a barge on the Amazon river today, Brazilian officials said.

A teenage girl was locked in a Brazilian prison cell with 21 men who would only let her eat in return for sex, authorities said.

A lost whale that swam 800 miles up the Amazon River died after a failed attempt to capture it and transport it back to the ocean.

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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.

An Amazon river passenger ship crashed into two barges and sank, leaving at least three people dead and dozens missing, authorities said today.

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A judge in Brazil sentenced six men to more than 20 years in prison in the killing of New Zealand yachtsman Peter Blake.

Seven men have been arrested in connection with the murder of champion yachtsman Peter Blake and Brazilian police said they were looking for at least one more suspect.