The Brazilian trio has created a worldwide "beer and burger" empire made up of iconic fast food brands, including Burger King, KraftHeinz and Canadian doughnut and coffee chain Tim Hortons.

Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista has hired debt ... in a flurry of steps to try to salvage his business empire. People familiar with the matter said a team of debt-restructuring experts from U.S ...

A combination of the world’s two biggest brewers would cap decades of beer-empire building by three Brazilian billionaires who control one of the hottest names in the takeover business and will ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Fifteen months ago, OGX Petróleo chief executive Paulo Mendonça was confident that the company he led was on track to become a major independent oil producer, an anchor for Eike Batista's vast ...

(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) If someone had told Salim Asrawi in1998 that he’d be sitting atop a $460 million family-owned empire of Brazilian steakhouses, he would have thought they’d been ...

If anyone doubted the meaning of a statement this week from OGX, the oil and gas flagship of Brazilian tycoon Eike ... of Mr Batista’s business empire has crystallised disillusionment in its ...

A hugely popular Brazilian funk star whose songs glorify gang crime has been nabbed for the very same crimes he brags about in his songs. Marlon Brandon Coelho Couto Silva, better known as MC Poze ...

Brazilian police say they prevented a planned bomb attack targeting the free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night. According to a statement from police, a group was attempting to ...

In a mind-boggling scene straight out of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a Brazilian woman reportedly wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank Tuesday to try to get him to co ...

Brazil's most famous billionaire Eike Batista has begun restructuring his business empire, EBX Group ... than cover the $1 billion debt owed to Brazilian bank Itaú and Bradesco.

Tom and Dominic discuss Brazil and its history post-independence. This episode will focus upon the Brazilian Empire, in particular the Emperor Pedro II. How did this boy who acceded to the throne ...