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football club following this bizarre own goal a minute before full-time.Midfielder Julio Campos appeared to deliberately fire the ball into his own net after a back pass from a team-mate and goalie Luis Antonio made zero effort to stop it. It left Atletico Amazonense 4-1 down to rivals Sul America in the second division of the Amazonas state championship.Campos’ club announced afterwards that those involved had been fired and said regional prosecutors had been asked to launch an investigation into alleged match-fixing.

A Brazilian woman has given birth to a humongous baby measuring two feet and weighing a staggering 16 pounds.

missing in a remote corner of the Brazilian Amazon after visiting an indigenous tribe. The wife of journalist Dom Phillips has urged authorities to intensify their search efforts in the region, which is notorious for illegal mining and drug trafficking, following his disappearance on Sunday morning.

Police in Brazil have claimed that human remains have been posted from a university there to a controversial fashion designer in Singapore.A human hand and three placentas left Brazil, bound for Arnold Putra - a designer who faced a backlash when he fashioned a handbag out of human bones in 2020, according to police.Authorities stated the organs were bound “for a famous Indonesian designer who sells accessories and garments using materials of human nature.”A raid by Brazilian Federal Police was carried out at the Amazonas State University (UEA) in the city of Manaus, the source of the human remains.Police said they acted on tips-offs to raid the institution and found that the hand and placentas were preserved by an anatomy professor using a method known as plastination.Plastination is a process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample.“The anatomy lab of a local university performed the extraction of body fluids,” the police statement read.

Covid mutation is behind an explosion of cases in the Amazon rainforest, scientists fear. Four Japanese travellers tested positive for the suspected new strain after returning from Brazil's Amazonas state.Scientists now believe the mutant emerged in the region which saw more coronavirus hospital admissions in the first week of 2021 than in December.

coronavirus variant believed to have originated in Brazil has been identified - here's everything you need to know about the strain. Prime Minister Boris Johnson today said he is "very concerned" about the new mutation, thought to affect healthy, young people.