All news on the topic: Brazil

Dr Glaubenia Serpa Costa vanished eight months ago prompting a police investigation in Rio das Ostras, near Brazil, which found her body buried under her patio

Fifteen people who were swimming in a river in the north of Brazil were attacked by piranhas with images showing blood pouring from them and needed hospital treatment

Corporal Anderson de Oliveira and his daughter Alycia Peroni Valentim, 19, were shot dead by three gunmen as they waited in a car in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Andrelino Vieira da Silva was born on February 3, 1901, just 11 days after Queen Victoria died and has seen countless in what he says is 123 years of living - making him the oldest person alive

While tattoos are exceptionally popular across the globe, very few have as many as the 'real life Devil' who can't get enough body art, having covered 70% of his body in ink

Aline Barone Barbosa, a popular body modification influencer from Brazil, has died from heart failure after catching dengue fever, with her daughter paying tribute to her "soulmate"

A Brazilian man has died after eating a pufferfish which has enough toxins to kill 30 adult humans and is 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide

Mateus Facio, 21, was enjoying his New Year's Eve celebrations with friends in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil when he felt a pain in his head he thought was a stone, but he had been shot

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE: Wilker de Paula Guimarães left hand was swollen and throbbing after a recluse spider took a bite out him while he slept. He attended another A&E department and had to have his finger removed

Aelcio Alves do Nascimento says he was stranded after getting into a fight with his brother regarding a toy car at Christmas in 1978 and was brought up by jaguars in the jungle

GRAPHIC WARNING: Boatman Odair Raash, 46, had disappeared transporting cattle on the Amazon river near Costa Marques Rondonia State, Brazil, before his skeleton was pulled from the water on New Year's Day

Joao Pimenta da Silva, 71, plunged down a shaft he had excavated over the course of a year after becoming obsessed with the idea there was gold buried underneath his property in Ipatinga, Brazil

Carlos Alberto Mota Candreva, 32, was partying on Neymar's 18-storey MSC Preziosa cruise ship after it set sail from Brazil's Port of Santos when he fell overboard, and is now presumed dead r

Jorge da Silva, 58, wades across the Brazilian rainforest river and snatches the eel from fisherman pal Jose Carvalho, 33, but quickly regrets it as he is zapped and falls under the water

Thankfully, little Raphael Levi dos Santos Rocha only sustained cuts and bruises to his face, but needed stitches after being sucked down the storm drain in Cruz Alta, Brazil

Amanda Partata Martoza allegedly purchased cakes from a bakery in Brazil and then laced them with poison - she was the only one who didn't fall ill after eating them

Social media star Maria Sofia Valim tragically died aged just 19 last weekend after she was forced to undergo emergency surgery following a serious health battle

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Ana Maria Paixao claimed her action was in self-defence but police in Rio de Janeiro confirmed he "posed no risk to her physical integrity"

Brazilian football star Adriano Bololo, 25, has tragically died after he and four other athletes were involved in a car accident in the early hours of the morning last week

The Juma tribe, located in the deep Amazonian rainforest in Brazil, had been feared to be about to disappear when its leader died in 2021, but his daughter took over and it is thriving

Chilling footage shows a group of brave wire walkers crossing a tightrope hung between two tower blocks in Belo Horizonte in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais

Augusto Dalmaz Bonato was found lying unconscious after he put up Christmas lights and died just weeks after the family lost their grandfather too

Norma Silveira da Silva, 90, was pronounced dead on Saturday at Sao Jose Regional Hospital in Brazil and zipped up into a body bag for two hours before a hospital worker found her alive

The pop sensation Taylor Swift may have overshared during her performance tonight when she unintentionally revealed the Reputations Tour before swiftly correcting herself

A woman was killed when she fell out of a bus window and onto train tracks in Brazil, and was then hit by an oncoming speeding train, leaving her completely cut in half