Boss of a cocaine empire spent 30 years using plastic surgery to avoid being caught.

NZ will find out tomorrow whether it has secured a new trade deal.

A pregnant woman who went to pick up donated clothes for her baby was butchered.

Woman lays complaint with Human Rights Commission over landlord's stipulation.

Brazilian President is facing growing calls for his resignation over a corruption scandal.

New Zealand is starring in Brazil on a travel show hosted by a former Brazilian model.

He left behind a den plastered wall-to-wall with Illuminati codes and symbols.

Woman charged after 4.6kg of cocaine allegedly found in luggage.

Video shows boa constrictor squirming as dozens of white quills protrude from its skin.

Police in Brazil made a shocking discovery when they found a kidnapped woman in a car boot during a routine check.

Rio de Janeiro is making final preparations for its annual carnival, known as the "world's biggest spectacle".

NZ exchange student describes scenes in the city of Vitoria as 'horrific and extremely disturbing'.

It's hard giving up summer for an overseas holiday, so why torture yourself? We've come up with five of the world's best summer destinations.

The growth in new air routes is stoking travel by New Zealanders to new destinations, according to a House of Travel survey.

Tourists visiting Rio may soon have to pay just in case they're mugged.

Rio de Janeiro was warned of the economic stresses an Olympics can place on a city - and now they are paying the price.

Bolivia's aviation authority has suspended the licence of the airline behind the horrific plane crash as blame shifted to the pilot and co-owner of the airline.

The desperate last words of the pilot flying the doomed jet carrying a Brazilian football team have emerged.

This is the heartbreaking moment a Brazilian footballer found out he was to become a father - just one week before he was killed in the Colombian jet crash.

Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo was one of just seven people initially found alive after a charter plane crashed in Colombia killing 75 people.

The footballers of Chapecoense changed to the doomed plane after Brazilian officials prevented them from taking a charter flight, it has been claimed.

The best of NZ Herald Business: Brazilian plane maker Embraer has developed a twin jet airlifter that is in the running to replace the RNZAF's aging Hercules.

Grant Bradley gets a ride in an experimental Brazilian cargo plane, dipping, ducking and diving over the plantations of Sao Paulo state.

Remarkable new images have emerged of an uncontacted tribal community in the Brazilian Amazon which environmentalists fear could be destroyed by outside influences.

A prison riot in northern Brazil has reportedly left 25 inmates dead, seven of them decapitated and six burned to death.

The wife of Brazil's answer to Donald Trump has become the laughing stock of the country after she gave an interview - while driving

Topsy-turvy weather in Brazil is pushing up the cost of commodities in your breakfast drink.

A giant snake measuring 10.5m long has been discovered on a building site in northern Brazil.

Thoughts are already turning to life after the Olympics, with plans to capitalise on Brazil's worldwide exposure.

Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have recalled their ambassadors to protest what they call a "coup" in the wake of the dismissal of Brazil's President.