The Rocinha favela stands out from a hillside in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 16, 2020. Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela, is home to about 70,000 people as of the latest census. (AP ...

ROCINHA, Brazil -- I didn't know what to expect when I decided to spend a day inside the biggest slum in Brazil. Known as a "favela," Rocinha is a neighborhood of about 100,000 people that started as ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in unison in a Rio de Janeiro favela for the inaugural class of a free course allowing residents of the low-income community ...

Illegal and unplanned settlements will grow in cities everywhere as urbanization accelerates. Digital technology can help residents connect to services they need. Finding your way through Rocinha in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Since the outbreak of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in unison in a Rio de Janeiro favela for the inaugural class of a free course allowing residents of the low-income community ...

A woman sitting in the lotus position wears a shirt that reads in Portuguese, "Be strong like a mother from the outskirts" while meditating during a Transformation Project yoga class in the Rocinha ...