Tag: Rio de Janeiro

Bradley Wiggins announced his retirement from professional cycling on Wednesday, bringing the curtain down on a career that saw him ...

He was on vacation in Rio and was expected to return to Brasilia Greece's ambassador to Brazil has been missing ...

Petra Kvitova will be unable to play tennis for at least six months after undergoing surgery on "severe" hand injuries ...

All funds raised from the match will go to the Brazilian outfit, who tragically lost players, backroom staff and directors ...

The Brazilian Senate has approved a controversial amendment to the constitution capping public spending for the next 20 years. The ...

Tributes have been paid to the Chapecoense players who died in a plane crash in Colombia on the final day ...

The helicopter was giving support to police against gangs in the Favela Four police officers have died after their helicopter ...

Dozens of protesters demanding a military coup have forced their way into Brazil’s lower chamber of Congress in the capital, ...

Brazil has been banned from international basketball tournaments for "serious" rule breaches, the sport's world governing body FIBA said on ...

A Brazilian evangelical pastor, Marcelo Crivella, has been elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro in the second round of municipal ...

Brazil legend Carlos Alberto, the captain of the 1970 World Cup-winning side, has died aged 72. He scored one of ...

The International Olympic Committee should be helping to compensate child victims of police violence at Rio 2016, say children's rights ...

From Rio to Rio with Kyoto, Copenhagen and Durban in between Paris right after and the recent China's G-20, the ...

Brazilian president Michel Temer was booed as the 2016 Paralympic Games opened in Rio de Janeiro to a backdrop of ...

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Brazil to demonstrate against the government. Organisers said 50,000 ...

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Red-hot favourite Eliud Kipchoge stormed to a runaway gold medal in a wet men's marathon ...

A Moroccan boxer has been arrested by Brazilian police over allegations of sexually assaulting two female cleaners in the Rio ...

Sprinter Flings Owusu-Agyapong, will carry the Ghana flag during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games which starts on ...

A Zika case in France has led scientists to raise the possibility that the virus could be transmitted by oral ...