RECIFE, BRAZIL — Ines Maria da Silva stares blankly outside her shack as she tells how she lost all five of her sons to the violence that makes Recife the deadliest major city in Brazil. The first son ...

RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – Newlywed Akiko Ishihama let out a nervous laugh when asked if she realized that she was honeymooning on a beach well known for deadly shark attacks. "Not at all," she answered as ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Recife is the capital city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast of Brazil. The pulse of Carnival has been growing in a crescendo in recent days, justly honoring it's fame of being among the ...

It’s a Sunday in the Brazilian city of Recife, but a team of infectious disease, pediatric and neurology experts are working overtime, huddled in a back room of the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital. They are ...

The 16th Battalion of Brazil’s Military Police is based at a former bus station in Recife in the north-east region. The 490 officers under the command of Colonel Cruz work four shifts, thinly ...

Recife’s tech hub tried to take on Brazil’s biggest players in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. What happened next is a cautionary tale for digital start-ups thinking big. It’s one of Brazil’s biggest ...

The city of Recife, Brazil, is at the heart of the global health crisis over Zika, a mosquito-borne virus. Rates of microcephaly, a birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally small heads, ...

Colorful umbrellas long ago replaced concealed knives during frevo parades. It's Carnival this weekend in Brazil. While it costs hundreds of dollars just to get a bad seat in Rio de Janeiro, the ...

Brazil’s Northeast is woefully underknown to foreign travelers. It doesn’t help perhaps that the region is made up of a series a small sliver-shaped states with names that challenge the Anglophone ...

The cradle of Brazilian Jewry is seeing the return of hundreds whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity centuries ago. RECIFE, Brazil (JTA) — Preparing to leave this city’s main Jewish ...