Petrobras reported making an oil discovery on the Balay exploration block in Colombia. The Balay-1 well was drilled to a depth of 4,652 meters in the Llanos basin, Casanare province.

One of the main leaders of the region, Brazilian President Inacio Lula Da Silva, has criticized Britain and the UN because they respect international rulings only when is functional to their own interests.

Brasilia governor, Jose Arruda, was arrested by police just hours after the Supreme Court ordered his detain for corruption.

A helicopter from Record Brazilian TV network, crashed because of a technical fault, when the occupants were covering the assault on a bank. Unfortunately the pilot died and cameraman suffered serious wounds. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The second leg of Dakar Rally 2010, which was one of the longest with 687 km between the provinces of Cordoba and La Rioja, was completed today.

A jailed Brazilian admitted in a television interview that he shoved nearly three dozen sewing needles into his 2-year-old stepson because he wanted to kill the boy to spite his wife.

A Brazilian boy was awake and breathing today after doctors removed four life-threatening sewing needles from around his lung and heart but was likely to face more surgery on Monday, an official said.

The Brazilian boy who is only two years old remains in a hospital in the town of Barreiras, waiting for surgery to remove the forty needles in his body, one of which punched his lungs. The doctors stated it is impossible that they have been swallowed up by the boy, and believed he was the victim of his stepfather.

Brazilian F1 driver Felipe Massa, introduced his son on December 2 and today was released the first photo of the baby, whom his proud parents named Felipinho.

“Every law has a loophole”, says an old proverb. In Brazil, a priest threatens to prosecute a gay couple after he got them married as they omitted to say that the “bride” was actually a transvestite.

Cristina Kirchner is in a meeting with her Brazilian counterpart, Inacio Lula da Silva, in order to reduce the tension and mistrust between Argentina and Brazil over trade strains. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine has expressed interest in having Geisy Arruda in its front page. Geisy 20 year old student who had been expelled for wearing an excesively revealing skirt.

The Bandeirante University (in San Pablo) expelled the student Geysi Villa Nova Arruda, because the 20 year-old caused an alleged scandal by having a very “provocative attitude”. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

A ceremony restricted to about 500 families and a few guests remembered Saturday Air France flight 447’s accident that took place in June a few hours after it took off for Paris.

An Indian tribe in Brazil has found at least nine survivors after a plane came down in a remote part of the Amazon jungle, the Brazilian air force says.

The Chapadinha, the leading Brazilian team, who was scored 9 goals in the last 9 minutes by Viana to stop Moto Clube from climbing to first division, and who is being investigated as its own players admit that the match was fixed (not that someone might doubt it), is news on all papers.

Viana, a team from the Second Division of Maranhao in Brazil, had to win by eleven goals difference if it intended to climb to first division. Remaining nine minutes of play they were defeating Chapadinha by 2 -0 and, raising suspicions, scored 9 goals in those 9 minutes. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Brazil legend Pele has hit back in his war of words with Diego Maradona by ridiculing the Argentine’s ‘hand of God’ goal against England in 1986.

Brazilian Rubens Barrichello won in the Italian Grand Prix, which was held at the Monza circuit in a double victory of Brawn GP and which serves to cut two points to his teammate Jenson Button.

The popular Brazilian singer and entertainer Xuxa, her former director Marlene Mattos and the Globo television channel were sentenced to pay compensation of 230 thousand reais (about 125 thousand dollars) to a teacher who accused them of plagiarism.