Brazil

A steep hike in visa fees is pushing current and prospective international students to consider other universities outside of Australia.

One bite was all it took for an Australian cattle breeder to become an industry leader in world beef heavyweight Brazil.

A crime ring smuggling drugs into Europe has collapsed after a three-year investigation with 40 arrests made.

The floods displaced over 500,000 people and infectious diseases are on the rise.

It will be the first time a South American nation has hosted the women's football tournament, preferred by FIFA over a joint bid from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users garnered national attention after a television news helicopter filmed him stranded on a rooftop in southern Brazil, where massive floods have killed more than 100 people.

The rainfall is the worst the country has seen in more than 80 years, some cities recording their highest water levels ever.

The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant.

Authorities expect the death toll to rise.

Brazilian police will allege former president Jair Bolsonaro and others in his circle inserted false information into the public health database to make it appear as though they had received the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Mosquito-borne dengue cases are surging in Brazil which has recorded nearly a million infections this year.

More than a hundred artists have been commissioned to bring colour to an otherwise grey part of the Brazilian capital.

Lauren Jackson reveals she will not play in the Olympic Games later this year just after the Opals beat Germany to qualify for Paris.

Cases of the mosquito-borne illness have surged after Brazil's hot and rainy January.

The Opals are on the cusp of Olympic qualification after holding their nerve to beat Brazil 60-55 in the first of three critical games.

Opals legend Lauren Jackson is banging on the door of a fifth Olympic campaign, 12 years after her fourth and having recovered from a partial achilles tear last year.

The Brazilian World Cup winning player and coach has died, according to a post on his official Instagram account. He was a member of the 1970 side often considered to be the best ever.

Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue has been donned with Pelé's Brazilian jersey to honour the one-year anniversary of the soccer legend's death.

The famous Rio statue of Christ the Redeemer is lit up in a Pelé jersey as Brazil pays tribute to the soccer great on the first anniversary of his death.

The 23-year-old fan had collapsed while attending the first of six shows that Swift performed in Brazil as part of The Eras Tour.

The heat index – or "feels like" – temperature reportedly reached 59C in Rio de Janeiro as thousands of fans queued up for Taylor Swift's performance.

The singer has returned to the stage, but the tragedy has brought the dangers of extreme heat into sharp focus.

A young Brazilian fan of US singer Taylor Swift died in Rio de Janeiro after falling ill inside the sweltering stadium where the superstar's concert was held, amid a record-breaking heat-wave across large swathes of Brazil.

Formula 1's São Paulo Grand Prix has been stopped on lap 1 after a big crash at the opening corner.

Few countries in the world embrace Formula 1 as passionately as Brazil and another boisterous crowd is expected this weekend.