The Latest Breaking News from Rio

The championship returned to the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace in 1990, after a switch to Rio de Janeiro 12 years previously, and in 2020 event officials renewed terms with F1 for another five years.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he is sending the armed forces to boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and international borders as part of a renewed effort to tackle organised crime in Latin America's largest nation.

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says armed forces will boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and along its international borders as part of a renewed effort to tackle organized crime

Researchers are at last revealing how slavery and the slave trade shaped the country’s institutions

Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are deploying helicopters and other extra security after members of a criminal gang set fire to at least 35 buses in apparent retaliation for the police slaying of one of their key members

Criminals reportedly set fire to at least 35 buses, four lorries and a train, apparently in retaliation for the killing of a senior paramilitary leader by police

Jacaranda season is beginning across Australia as an explosion of vivid blue spreads in a wave from north to south. We think of jacarandas as a signature tree of various Australian cities. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth all feature avenues of them.

Rio de Janeiro’s state government has deployed hundreds of police officers to three of the city’s sprawling and low-income neighborhoods

Four doctors have been shot — three of them fatally — beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in what may have been a politically motivated execution

Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961, the country is sweltering amid unforgiving and unseasonal temperatures

In a film that celebrates the power of creativity, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz collaborates with pickers at a rubbish dump to create art from salvaged material