Recife is the capital city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast of Brazil. The pulse of Carnival has been growing in a crescendo in recent days, justly honoring it's fame of being among the ...

RECIFE, BRAZIL — Ines Maria da Silva stares blankly outside her shack as she tells how she lost all five of her sons to the violence that makes Recife the deadliest major city in Brazil. The first son ...

Recife is one of the largest metropolitan areas in Brazil, the city’s vast skyline sprawling to the shore, where two rivers empty into the Atlantic. It’s also one of the world’s most notorious shark ...

RECIFE Brazil (Reuters) - If music and partying are what you have in mind for a trip to Brazil, you might want to sidestep traditional hotspots like Rio de Janeiro and Salvador and head to Recife ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Colorful umbrellas long ago replaced concealed knives during frevo parades. It's Carnival this weekend in Brazil. While it costs hundreds of dollars just to get a bad seat in Rio de Janeiro, the ...

The cradle of Brazilian Jewry is seeing the return of hundreds whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity centuries ago. RECIFE, Brazil (JTA) — Preparing to leave this city’s main Jewish ...

Brazil’s Northeast is woefully underknown to foreign travelers. It doesn’t help perhaps that the region is made up of a series a small sliver-shaped states with names that challenge the Anglophone ...

RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – Newlywed Akiko Ishihama let out a nervous laugh when asked if she realized that she was honeymooning on a beach well known for deadly shark attacks. "Not at all," she answered as ...

The city of Recife, Brazil, is at the heart of the global health crisis over Zika, a mosquito-borne virus. Rates of microcephaly, a birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally small heads, ...