With Brazil entering the joyous throes of Carnival, Alpine ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on Saturday gave it another reason to celebrate — an Olympic medal. It was the first-ever medal at the ...

A Brazilian skier secured South America’s maiden medal at a Winter Games the day after a Kazakh figure skater won his nation’s first winter gold in 32 years. By Patricia Mazzei and Tariq Panja ...

Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen swiped away the competition with a powerful final run in the Olympic giant slalom on Saturday, winning gold and earning South America's first-ever medal at ...

BORMIO, Italy -- Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen turned in a powerful final run to win the Olympic giant slalom Saturday and earn South America's first medal at a Winter Games. With snow ...

More people in a still largely conservative and religious nation are rejecting monogamy as they seek new definitions of romance, and of family. By Ana Ionova Photographs by María Magdalena Arréllaga ...

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen became the first South American to win a Winter Olympics medal after he earned gold during Saturday's men's giant slalom. The 25-year-old Pinheiro Braathen, who is ranked ...

One of the powers of food I appreciate most is its ability to transport — how eating cinnamon toast or chicken noodle soup brings me right back to my childhood, or enjoying a lobster roll puts me on a ...

The outcome of Brazil’s general election in October will hinge on two issues: crime and voters’ purses. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is betting the economy will win him ...

Brazil president to receive unprecedented honour at opening night of procession with a giant effigy of him He is a giant of Brazilian politics and soon he will become a giant of Brazilian carnival too ...

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won the first-ever Winter Olympics medal for a South American country. Born in Norway to a Brazilian mother, the skier now represents Brazil after a dispute with the Norwegian ...

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen took home Brazil’s first-ever medal at a Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, and as fate would have it, it was a gold one. Braathen triumphed in the men’s giant slalom on ...