For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

A woman sitting in the lotus position while meditating during a Transformation Project yoga class in the Rocinha favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, July 9, 2025.

A man has been killed while trying to stop a knifeman stealing his watch in a horrific stabbing in London's most expensive ...

Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in Rio de Janeiro for the inaugural class of a free course allowing ...

The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains ...

In Brazil, abortion is legally restricted to cases of rape, life-threatening risks to the pregnant woman or if the fetus has no functioning brain.

Ashley Cain visited dangerous places around the world - and tried to understand why some young men choose a life of crime. "It's absolutely devastating. People are losing their lives every single ...

Brazil has 16.390 million people living in favelas countrywide. The amount represents 8.1 percent of the national population (203M)—in other words, eight out of every 100 people live in these areas.

Brazilian designer Abacaxi is on a mission to reclaim the national flag from its recent political connotations and celebrate the vibrant culture of the favelas.

Brazil's flag served as an emblem of Jair Bolsonaro's far-right populist politics. Now designers like Abacaxi are reclaiming it for all Brazilians and celebrating the style of the favelas at the ...

It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — whatever was ...

Brazilian dance craze created by young people in Rio’s favelas is declared cultural heritage The passinho is a Brazilian dance style created in the 2000s by kids in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas ...