The Latest Breaking News from Rio de Janeiro

After casting his vote for in Brazil’s presidential election in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was hoisting a silver trophy into the air alongside newly crowned soccer champions

Brazil's heated presidential race has tightened ahead of a Sunday vote, several opinion surveys showed on Saturday, with right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro eroding a slight advantage for leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in most polls.

Over the last four years, President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has made steep budget cuts to Brazil’s public universities. In the run-up to the second and final round of presidential elections, his government announced a new freeze on funds, angering students anew. The fields of education, culture and environmental studies have…

In Rio de Janeiro, this urban community garden in the Manguinhos favela is the largest in Latin America: it feeds 800 families a month with affordable, pesticide-free produce. Although violence, police raids and deadly shootings in the northern favelas of the city threaten programmes like this, our Observer Yuri Lopes…

She left a gang-plagued neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro at age 7, crossing illegally into the U.S. with her family and living in a one-room New York apartment, scavenging furniture while her mother cleaned houses. Today, she’s an activist and campaign surrogate for her husband, who’s running for the Senate…

Former UFC strawweight champion Jessica Andrade is moving back up to flyweight to face Lauren Murphy.

Moments after his UFC Fight Night 212 win, Joanderson Brito told the world what he wants next: Dan Ige in Rio de Janeiro.

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The judge overseeing the trial against Air France and Airbus for involuntary homicide in the fatal 2009 crash of a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has agreed to allow the recording from the black box flight recorder to be heard behind closed doors.

Graham Gardner, 52, was trying to get home to see his family in Renfrewshire when the doomed Rio de Janeiro to Paris flight plunged into the Atlantic amid thunderstorms.

Air France and aircraft maker Airbus go on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of involuntary manslaughter – 13 years after an A330 jet plunged into the Atlantic on a flight from Rio de Janeiro, killing all 228 people on board.