A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

The award-winning social entrepreneur will launch a new fund aimed at technology businesses from Brazilian slums. One of Brazil's best-known social entrepreneurs, Celso Athayde, is at the cusp of a ...

HELIOPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) - Hundreds of houses painted in a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours line the main streets of Sao Paulo's largest slum -- turning what was once a grim, grey landscape into a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. As the sun set between the “two brothers” mountains overlooking Rio’s de Janeiro’s Ipanema beach, it illuminated the primary colours of ...

A quarter of Rio de Janeiro's population lives in slums, or favelas, yet too often those very people are left feeling marginalized. Wracked by drug and gang-related violence and stricken with poverty, ...

A Milwaukee bar called Nomad World Pub wanted to create a special place for its customers to watch the World Cup, so it decided to set up a faux favela inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s poverty-stricken ...

Inspiring docu "Favela Rising" traces the rehabilitation of a murder-ravaged Rio de Janeiro slum (the favela of the title) by the power of music. A former drug dealer and a community activist confront ...

Tuesday-night party Favela Chic is very much a misnomer, considering favela is Portuguese for slum. There is nothing chic about a place where gang activity, drug trade, and shanty houses are the norm.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 20-minute drive ...