Brazil: Number of people missing in massive floods drops to 76; Deaths up to 51

Brazil: Missing from floods drops, deaths up

Brazil’s president surveys flood-hit areas; residents hope for more help

Brazil’s president surveying flood-hit areas

Massive floods flatten Brazilian town, kill more than 3 dozen; 600 reported missing

Brazilian mayor: Floods have flattened entire town

Brazil: Search on for 600 missing in floods; Death toll rises to 44

Brazil: Search on for 600 missing in floods

Brazil scrambles to aid flood victims after 41 killed, 120,000 driven from homes

Brazil: Flooding kills 41 in northeast

RIO DE JANEIRO — Officials scrambled Tuesday to get food and medical aid to two flood-hit Brazilian states where torrents of water ripped through towns, killing at least 41 people and driving 120,000 from their homes.

Summary Box: Coffee prices jump on Brazilian cold snap during harvest; energy, metals mixed

Summary Box: Coffee jumps on Brazil’s cold snap

Coffee futures soar after a cold snap during the Brazilian harvest sets off supply worries

Coffee prices jump on cold snap in Brazil

Coffee prices jumped as much as 8 percent Friday after an early cold snap during Brazil’s harvest sparked a buying frenzy.

A year on, families of victims of Air France Flight 447 remember loved ones in Paris ceremony

Families honor Air France crash victims a year on

A year after Air France Flight 447 crash, victims’ families demand new search for wreckage

Air France crash victims’ families want new search

Brazil’s Amazon hit by magnitude-6.5 earthquake; No deaths, damage reported

Magnitude-6.5 earthquake hits Brazil’s Amazon

Costly renewed search for Air France plane crashed in Atlantic depths ends in failure

New search for Air France plane ends in failure

AP INVESTIGATION: Self-regulation of safety features is norm in oil industry worldwide

Huge collection of dead snakes, spiders, scorpions lost in fire at Brazil institute

Brazil fire burns huge collection of dead snakes

Huge collection of dead snakes, spiders, scorpions lost in fire at Brazil research institute

Huge Brazil collection of snakes, spiders burned

Workers find World War II-era mine; explosion rocks Brazilian beach resort

World War II-era mine causes big blast in Brazil

Invesitagors say search in new area for Air France plane that crashed in Atlantic a failure

French searchers say crashed plane still unfound

FAA rejects bid to revoke licenses of 2 American pilots involved in 2006 Brazil plane crash

Bid to revoke licenses in Brazil crash rejected

French investigators: Atlantic hunt for crashed Air France jet to go on, with fewer resources

Atlantic hunt for crashed Air France jet extended

Access to Rio’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue closed due to heavy rains

Rio’s Christ the Redeemer closed after rains

Rio starts demolishing slums in high-risk areas, evicting families; death toll at 229

Rio starts demolishing slums in high-risk areas

Rio relocating 2,600 families from areas most threatened by more landslides; death toll 229

Rio evacuating 2,600 families from at-risk homes

In churches and at memorials, Polish immigrants worldwide mourn plane crash victims

Polish immigrants worldwide mourn crash victims

World leaders express sorrow at death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski

more images

Rio floods, mudslides kill 205 with toll expected to rise

Rio flood death toll hits 205, expected to rise

Rio floods, mudslides kill 192 with toll expected to rise

Rio flood death toll hits 192, expected to rise

Death toll 184 from Rio floods, mudslides; expected to rise further

Rio flood death toll hits 184, expected to rise

Death toll 183 from Rio floods, mudslides; expected to rise further

Rio flood death toll hits 183, expected to rise

Community disappears in Rio mudslide; Up to 200 feared dead in single slum

Slum disappears in Rio mudslide; 200 feared dead

Latest Rio landslide buries up to 200 in slum; official death toll of 153 expected to rise

Up to 200 buried, feared dead in new Rio mudslide

At least 200 reported buried in latest Rio slide; official death toll of 153 expected to rise

At least 200 buried, feared dead in Rio mudslide

Report: At least 200 people buried in latest Rio mudslide; official death toll at 153

Report: At least 200 buried in Rio mudslide

New mudslide smashes into shantytown as overall toll from Rio’s rain disaster rises to 147

New mudslide hits slum as Rio toll rises to 147

Pain from torrent in Rio falls heavily on slums; at least 119 killed, 60 missing in mudslides

Pain from torrent in Rio falls heavily on slums

Record rains ease in Rio; officials fear death toll from flooding _ already 100 _ could rise

Rio flood toll tops 100 as record downpours ease

More rain falls in Rio as officials fear death toll could rise after heaviest deluge on record

Rain resumes in Rio, officials fear more deaths

Heaviest rains in Rio de Janeiro’s history swamp city, killing at least 95 people

Rio’s worst rains in history kill at least 95

Heaviest rains in Rio de Janeiro’s history swamp city, killing at least 81 people

Rio’s worst rains in history kill at least 81

Rains swamp Rio de Janeiro, kill at least 81; schools closed, motorists stranded

Heavy rains swamp Rio, killing at least 81

Rains swamp Rio de Janeiro, kill at least 50; schools closed, motorists stranded

Heavy rains swamp Rio, killing at least 50

Rains swamp Rio de Janeiro, kill at least 8; schools closed, motorists stranded

Heavy rains swamp Rio, killing 8, halting traffic

Search ships set sail from Brazil to search for crashed Air France flight data recorders

Search ships on way to crashed Air France area

New search about to start for black boxes of Air France jet that disappeared in mid-Atlantic

New search starting for Air France black boxes

Police: Soccer fans in Brazil hurl homemade bomb into locker room; 2 injured in mayhem

2 injured in Brazil after mayhem sparked by bomb

Andretti escapes injuries after scary accident at IndyCar season opener in Brazil

Andretti uninjured after scary accident in Brazil

AF447: French families want equal compensation after Brazilian judge award

AF447: French famililes want equal compensation

Brazilian judge orders Air France to pay more than $1M to French crash victim’s family

Brazilian judge awards $1M in Air France suit

Investigator says third phase of Air France crash search delayed by weather, other factors

Search for Air France black boxes delayed

PARIS — The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed by weather conditions and trouble getting a search ship to Brazil, officials said Thursday.