1.   Favelas are the hillside slums of Brazil, which in no way resemble even the grungiest sections of Paris.

2.   Police on Friday arrested a man who confessed to beating four teenage girls to death and burying them in the backyard of his house in a hillside slum.

3.   A kidnapped businessman held in a hillside slum of Rio for nearly four months escaped Tuesday while his captors battled with rival drug traffickers.

4.   City officials urged residents living in vulnerable areas, such as hillside slums, to evacuate in case of further landslides.

5.   In small, hillside slums, water deliveries are often disrupted by rains.

6.   In Rio, scenes will be shot in Santa Marta, a hillside slum controlled by drug dealers.

7.   In the hillside slum of Chapeu Mangueira near Copacabana beach, a clash between rival drug gangs on Wednesday left five people dead, the state security bureau said.

8.   Mobs killed eight alleged murderers last weekend in the crowded hillside slums that ring much of Caracas.

9.   Officials worried about tainted runoff from hillside slums where flash floods are believed to have entombed many of the missing under tons of mud.

10.   Police are afraid to venture into the sprawling hillside slums, where lynch mobs recently killed eight suspected criminals.