While the majority of the World Cup host cities are located close to the Atlantic coast, Manaus is smack in the middle of the Amazon rainforest – geographically closer to Lima, Peru, than to Rio ...

Manaus celebrates its World Cup games in the Amazon rain forest, even as some wonder why. June 17, 2014. By Rick Maese. The motorboat caroms over the black marble-topped water of the Rio Negro ...

Manaus exists because of the confluence of rivers and rubber and more recently some cryptic government tax shenanigans. The World Cup is here because -- well, nobody seems to know why, exactly.

Well, think again - at least if we are talking about Manaus, the two-million-people ... the locals are getting more and more exposed to the external world through visitors. Journalists from ...

It seems, at the very least, odd that Manaus was included among the World Cup host cities, given that it does not boast a premier soccer club; that its temperature ranges from humid to hellish; ...

The BBC is visiting eight areas of the world to find how people are preparing for climate change. Paulo Cabral is in Manaus.

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) – Death by giant snakes, malarial mosquitoes or drug-addled, knife-wielding thieves: If the barrage of blood-soaked headlines in the British tabloids is to be believed, that ...

Manaus, the biggest city in Brazil's vast Amazon region, has quickly earned a reputation as one of the most festive cities hosting the World Cup.

Amazonia Arena in Manaus has become something of a symbol of Brazil’s mismanagement of the World Cup, which begins Thursday in Sao Paulo. The stadium has been wracked by delays and accidents (a ...

MANAUS, Brazil – The oppressive heat and humidity of Manaus, where the United States will play its crucial second World Cup group game on June 22, came sharply into focus on Saturday following ...

It's a good thing the mayor of World Cup city Manaus has a sense of humor. Because some of the stuff being said about this historic city deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle is laughable. Last ...