BG Group, one of the UK's biggest gas producers, posts a 27% leap in profit in the second quarter, thanks to higher natural gas prices and more success in Brazil... more
WPP puts a major shareholder rebellion over executive pay behind it as the advertising giant makes a second major purchase in Brazil in as many days... more
Travelex, the foreign currency supplier, is buying Brazil's largest foreign exchange business in a deal believed to be worth up to £140 million... more
Brazil has overtaken China as the favourite market for emerging private equity deals over the next year, due to a stronger political and regulatory environment and lower valuations, according to a news survey... more
Directors of oil services group Wellstream will be at least £22 million richer after the firm succumbs to an improved £800 million offer from US conglomerate General Electric... more
Brazil make an unconvincing start to World Cup with hard-fought victory over minnows but former Arsenal star says the days of his country playing free-flowing attacking football are over... more
If there is one nation at the World Cup you can be sure won't be afraid of a country with a big reputation it is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea... more
Show that mixes Brazilian football, dance and music opens tonight on the South Bank as a prelude to a celebration of South American culture this summer... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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