Brainstorming in Brazil: Female health issues will be on the agenda in Rio de Janeiro this week when more than 200 women representing 85 nations convene for a four-day conference on Reproduction ...

Brazil's first female president was sworn in Saturday amid cheers and tears from supporters, many of whom followed her rise from freedom fighter brutally persecuted by the country's military junta in ...

Brazil tops the list as the No. 1 consumer of crack in the world, and police have been combating Brazil's drug problem with raids and forced evacuations before the World Cup. 7. Forced evictions AP ...

Dilma Vana Rousseff, the first female president elected in Brazil, also became the first woman to open an annual meeting of the General Assembly of United Nations (UN), on September 21, 2011.

Brazil elects first female presidentAnd with Brazil set to emerge as a major oil exporter with the development of the so-called pre-salt offshore fields, Rousseff must set policy on royalties ...