Sao paulo News

San Paulo - Spread in an area of over 200 acres of original Atlantic forest, the Sao Paulo Zoo shelters about 3,200 animals from 444 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates and promotes public awareness about wildlife conservation.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil - Four races into the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series and Will Power is on a roll. On Sunday in Brazil, he became the first driver to win three straight IndyCar events since 2007.

A 10-year-old boy shot his teacher and then killed himself at a school in São Caetano do Sul, a district of São Paulo. The tragedy took place on Thursday shorty after lunch hour.

An Irishman arrested at a Brazilian airport was discovered to have allegedly swallowed 72 cocaine capsules which graphic x-rays revealed in his stomach.

San Paulo - Sao Paulo's city council has approved a proposal to create Heterosexual Pride Day honoring straight people that will be celebrated yearly on the third Sunday of December if it gets a final stamp of approval from the mayor of South America's largest city.

Brazil certainly is used to having large crowds at events every such as Carnaval. They also have an event each year known as the 'March for Jesus'. This year the crowd was estimated at 5 million.

After more than two-and-a-half months away from families and friends, three French tourists detained by Brazilian authorities for "endangering" a São Paulo-Paris flight in early December last year are free to return home.

YouTube has video, the wire services and newspapers carried the story. It happened more than two weeks ago in Brazil; Yet it was big news around the world today. Within hours the Brazilian university reversed its decision to expel a mini-wearing student.

Bourbon Street Festival is Brazil's most important event dedicated to the music of New Orleans. The festival takes place in the Moema neighborhood of São Paulo and is centered around the local jazz/funk/R&B club, Bourbon Street.

Economic prosperity has seen it become Brazil's California. And now as in other boom towns around the world, Sao Paulo too faces the perils of environmental emissions. But finally, it is doing something about it.