Brazil

Homeless couple find $10,000 on the street and hand it in to police

Lifestyle

A homeless Brazilian couple have done what even many wealthy people wouldn’t dream of doing and handed in a garbage bag they found filled with around 20,000 Brazilian Reals (USD9835) to the police.

Officials said the couple, who live under the bridges of Sao Paulo, were out for a morning walk when they heard an alarm, according to The Telegraph.

Rio de Janeiro becomes world’s most expensive city for hotels

Travel

Rio de Janeiro has surpassed Sydney as the world’s most expensive major city for a hotel stay, according to a recent study.

During the first quarter of 2012, the average cost of a night in the Brazilian city was £192.88, almost 50 per cent more expensive than during the same period last year, according to The Telegraph.

World’s most expensive Apple products found in Brazil

Lifestyle

Thanks to high taxation, it’s not just the filthy rich who specially order gold-plated and diamond-encrusted Apple iPads who pay the highest price for any Apple (AAPL) product than every other consumer on earth, it’s also Brazilians, Forbes has revealed.

According to Idealo Internet GmbH, a price comparison site based in Germany, Brazil has the highest-priced Apple products in the world.