Many also believe the oracle has predicted the return on the 17th century plague in the words ... change might cause natural disasters in Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest.

New additions to Adriana Varejão’s acclaimed “Plate” series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her ...

Throngs of ordinary faithful made their way slowly to the 16th-century basilica's main altar, where Francis' simple wooden ...

Fourteen-year-old prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the latest in a long list of teenagers to light up world sport after Luke ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will meet in a secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global Church starting from May 7, the ...

BTG, whose initials spell out “Better than Goldman” in a pun favoured by some of Brazil’s financial community, remains majority-owned by its partners — vanishingly rare for a 21st century ...

Chinese porcelain (a 16th-century bottle, mounted in England c ... by Pedro Alvares Cabral landed by accident on the coast of Brazil. After initially setting up a trading center there, as they ...

With one ceremony, Francis nearly doubled the 480 saints made by St. John Paul II over his quarter-century pontificate ... to ...

South America's largest country is going through a wave of 21st Century “terrorism” which ... people acting deliberately to create chaos in Brazil, setting fire to forests and people's ...