RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — This is a sure sign the 2016 Olympics are getting close. Officials of next year’s games in Rio de Janeiro stood by Wednesday evening as fireworks exploded above a huge version of ...

Joinville, Brazil – "It's the most beautiful part of the Olympic competition,” Eduardo Fischer said about the torch relay, which has been travelling through Brazil for the last 73 days on its way to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - From the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg to the London Eye in Britain, cities around the world are lighting up buildings and landmarks in the yellow and green colours of the ...

The Rio Light Rail (also known as VLT Carioca) connects the port region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the city's financial centre and the Santos Dumont Airport. A model of the light rail vehicle to ...

This article focuses on sex work relations in the Mangue, one of Rio de Janeiro’s red light districts in the 1920s. It follows multiple simultaneous trajectories that converge in Rio’s changing urban ...