Brazil was attributed to be the country which has some really beautiful girls who had svelte physique. Not a long time has passed when world's top most models were from Brazil. It seems that situation has reversed now as 48% of the women in Brazil are overweight.

Latest reports have revealed that Brazil doctors have decided, for the time being, not to go for surgical treatment for the sake of separating a set of conjoined twins. The conjoined twins have two heads, though they are sharing one body and various critical organs.

Men who, in order to satiate their sexual desire, have sex with animals are found to be at double risk to acquire penile cancer.

Revelation was made by Brazil researchers, who by profession are urologists. In order to reach the conclusion, they enrolled 492 men, aged between 18 and 80 years.

In a recent report, it has been confirmed that Brazil's most popular president would soon be undergoing chemotherapy. It was confirmed that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was found to have a 2-3 centimeter tumor in throat on October 29.

In one of its kind case, three Brazilian doctors, Rui Sacramento, Pedro Torrecillas and Mariano Fiore Junior have been sentenced for 17 years and six months for killing four patients to sell their kidneys.

If not equal as women, men also have certain age limit after which their chances of becoming father starts declining.

Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao has claimed that Brazil will have highly increased number of obese citizens in the coming time due to the reason that people are consuming fatty foods and are following a sedentary lifestyle.

"We're sitting on a time bomb that could explode in the next 20 years," he said, according to media reports.

The Brazilian President -elect Dilma Rousseff has nominated Alexandre Tombini for becoming the head of the Reserve Bank of the country. This move has prompted investors of the nation to bet that there will be a hike in the rates of interest in her first month in the office.

Amongst the one of the biggest Chinese oil acquirement till date, Spain's Repsol SA on Friday declared the sale of 40% of its Brazilian possessions to China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. for approx $7.1 billion.

After being awarded for having the world's biggest breasts, a model is now struggling for her life, and her condition has worsened after the latest surgery. She has developed a severe infection after undergoing a breast increase operation, in the month of June.