At the flame-lighting in the ruins of ancient Olympia, Brazil’s sport minister Ricardo Leyser tried to assure the world about the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Guards thought there was something suspicious about a little white cat slipping through a prison gate in north-eastern Brazil.

Record-breaking Brazil striker Ronaldo is poised to announce his retirement from football.

Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France Flight 447 victims, injuries that – along with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic – strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts say.

A twin-engine plane crashed near a private airport in a northeastern coastal Brazil resort area, killing all 11 people aboard.