Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday just weeks short of ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for a permanent monitoring system to track Brazil’s compliance with its recommendations following the devastating floods that struck southern ...

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

The University of York, who are hosting the aforementioned Global Baroque Conference later this summer, have released the ...

The history of metal pollution in the city of São Paulo, the largest metropolis in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere, can be ...

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

It’s time to swap the fly and flop getaway on the Spanish coast for a culture-filled city break to explore what this country ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is running the Vatican until a new pope is elected, led the procession to the altar, with clouds ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

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

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children.