Ronaldinho and Kaka are going to play for Brazil's national team in a friendly match against Algeria at the end of the month in France. Coach Dunga summoned them and 20 others for the match on Aug. 22 in Montpellier.

Moto Honda da Amazonia Ltda.(HDA), a Honda motorcycle business subsidiary in Brazil, announced Honda’s cumulative motorcycle production in Brazil reached 10 million units in August 2007.

"I have been shocked to see that children could still die of hunger in Rio de Janeiro..."

Brazil Thursday successfully launched a rocket on a 20-minute flight aimed at studying the effect of microgravity on human enzymes and DNA. The 12.6-meter-long (41.3-foot-long) VSB-30 rocket, was launched from the seaside Alcantara launch site in northeastern Brazil, the Brazilian Space Agency said in a statement posted on its Web site.

One of the two thrust reversers on an airliner carrying 186 people that crashed in a fireball was turned off when the plane landed, the jet's owner said, as officials tried to determine why it raced down a runway instead of slowing down.

A giant inferno as jet plane of TAM airline colliding with shell depot after skidding fear more than two hundred dead and many inured.

Brazilian authorities say at least 200 people are dead after a passenger plane burst into flames Tuesday evening on landing in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The governor of Sao Paulo state said all 176 people aboard the plane are likely dead. Many on the ground are also believed to have perished.

Brazil has stunned bitter rival and overwhelming favorite Argentina, 3-0, to win its eighth Copa America football (soccer) title in Venezuela.

The 15th Pan American Games have opened with a glittering ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As VOA's David Byrd reports, the ceremony featured dancers, drummers, puppets, and the Games' symbol of the Sun in a bounding celebration entitled Share the Energy.

A Brazilian court has issued an arrest warrant for the London-based Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky on money-laundering charges connected to a Brazilian soccer team.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the poorest countries in the world could prosper in the biofuel industry, which produces fuel from crops such as corn and grain.

World Bank Approved the grant on June 26th.