That's because Recife — a host city for the most recent World Cup — has one of the highest shark-attack rates in the world. Between 1992 and 2012, there were 56 attacks in the city's waters.

Before 1992, Recife had no more shark attacks than any other beach in Brazil, but the change was immediate and dramatic. To build the port, estuaries were dredged and long docks built, protruding ...

What Recife lacks in aesthetic character is more than made up for by its suburb Olinda, whose historic center, a UNESCO site and one of the best preserved colonial centers in Brazil, is 20 minutes ...

Wolverhampton Wanderers have reached an agreement with Sport Recife to sign Pedro Lima. The 17-year-old had been heavily linked with a host of top clubs, most prominently Chelsea, who had been ...

Sport Recife continue to struggle for results at the wrong end of the Serie A table as they fell to a 2-0 defeat against Juventude at the Estádio Alfredo Jaconi last Tuesday. Paulista’s side ...

This year’s unofficial Rio Carnival hit came from an unlikely source: MC Loma, a 15-year-old girl from a peripheral neighbourhood of Recife, the regional capital of Pernambuco. For many Brazilians ...

Brazil's Supreme Court finally named Sport Recife the winner of the 1987 league title on Tuesday. Sport -- a team that more often fights against relegation than for titles -- beat Rio de Janeiro ...

On November 25, 2024, in Recife, Brazil, @weynomarkting shared a video of a woman asleep while riding on the back of a motorcycle. The footage shows the woman, wearing a helmet, leaning backward ...

This article is based on fieldwork in marginalized neighborhoods of Recife and Olinda, Brazil, in 2004 and 2005. It analyzes children's artistic performances as rites of passage, seeing them as spaces ...