Businessmen from the city of Natal and Arab partners are going to build the Brazilian Town, a complex in which national companies will be able to install branches with free zone advantagesThe idea is for Brazilian Town to be exclusively turned to Brazilians. Construction work, according to Macedo, begins in January next year and ends in December 2010. The complex will be shaped after the hills of Rio de Janeiro, and the main inspiration will be the Sugar Loaf. There will even be a cable car linking one "hill" (tower) to the other. Engineers and architects from Brazil are working on the project,

These photos are from the south of Brazil, the land of "Gaúchos" the men that live and work in "La Pampa"

Bob Dylan was in San Paulo, Brazil and during his performance a girl ran up to him and hugged him. During the break he thanked everyone including the girl who joined him on stage and he wanted to give her his hat.

18 foot minke whale was found in the Amazon river 1000 miles from sea. Sea creatures rarely venture this far into fresh water. Scientists are working on a way to help the whale return to the ocean.Photos from Reuters

Just when a week passed since Pope Benedict XVI denounced government-backed contraception in a visit to Brazil, the president unveiled a program to provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across the country.Brazil already hands out free condoms and birth control pills at government-run pharmacies. But many poor people in Latin America's largest country don't go to those pharmacies, so administration decided to offer the pills at reduced prices at private drug stores.The price for a year's supply of birth control pills under the new program would be $2.40, and anyone —

Police said Saturday they weren’t discarding the possibility that human trafficking played a role in the disappearance of a former Miss Brazil who hasn’t contacted her family since September. Taiza Thomsen, 24, represented Brazil at the 2003 Miss Universe pageant in Panama. The last time she spoke to her parents, she said she was in London.“At this moment we can’t rule out anything, not even the possibility she was a victim of human trafficking,” police investigator Marcos David Salem told Brazilian TV.Police began investigating the case Friday, after Thomsen’s family

YouTube was restored in Brazil after the scandal with Brazilian Queen of beauty.The scandal began, when a model and TV hostess Daniela Cicarelli sued the Google-owned web site after a video of her having sex with Merrill Lynch banker Renato Malzoni became the most viewed video in Brazilian web. The authorities first tried to ban the video, but it kept being generated, so A Brazilian judge ordered the country’s Internet service providers last Thursday to block YouTube. On Friday the blocking started, but numerous users of Brazil's capital Brasilia kept on complaining, and the video had travelled

Just today on the south-east of Brazil at least 50 people were killed, due to floods and mudslides, caused by local drenchers. The majority of this number died in Rio de Janeiro, where whole settlements have been washed away by water streams. Almost 15 000 people are forced to abandon their living places. Some regions of Brazil are in the state of emergency.