From the outside, South Africa's largest Roman Catholic church, Regina Mundi (Queen of the World), looks rather generic -- at least to the extent that a church can when it is set in the township of ...

There's no way around it: Brazil is a disaster. In a report to clients on Friday, economists at Deutsche Bank took a detailed look at South America's flagging economy and found that, any way you cut ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On February 6, Brazil’s central bank cut its policy interest rate to 4.25 per cent. It brought the rate, known ...

As Dilma Rousseff steps aside from Brazil's presidency and Michel Temer ascends to the post, it's a moment of reckoning for a nation that's in the throes of recession, high inflation and a near-record ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If feverish local press reports are any guide (this one and this one, for example), the wolves are closing in ...

Owing in large part to soaring commodities prices, Brazilian stocks are among the best-performing emerging markets assets this year. While a year-to-date loss of 1.89% for the large-cap MSCI Brazil ...

Brazil has elected a far-right president, with former army captain Jair Bolsonaro defeating left-wing candidate Fernando Haddad in Sunday's run-off vote. Here, we take a look at some of the issues ...