It's hard to escape talk of swine flu in Brazil at the moment - even in the Xingu National Park, which I visited last week. This is Francisco Txicao, an Ikpeng indian from the state of Mato Grosso, who…

I'm not sure I've ever had so many emails about one story. The story in question is a piece I wrote, while dressed in the silly blue helment above, for today's Guardian about the growing number of female cops…

There's always a lot of crime in the pages of Rio's daily newspaper O Dia. But apart from the occasional mugging, it's not common to find a group of Brits at the centre of the dodgy-dealings.