There’s a scene early on in the The Hunger Games where the heroine played by Jennifer Lawrence is plucked from her district on the periphery in terms of both location and life.

Police in Rio de Janeiro say a Russian diplomat trying to repel an attempted robbery on Thursday near the Olympic Park was involved in a shooting that left the assailant dead. The Russian embassy denied any of its employees were involved in the incident.

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.

Rory McIlroy’s embrace with the Olympic Games hasn’t been the warmest thus far, but Paul McGinley believes the world’s top golfer is ready to embrace the Rio Games in 2016 when he plays for Ireland.

But for Rory McIlroy’s solo march to his second major at Kiawah Island, golf’s final grand event of the season, the USPGA, might have been shunted into the sidings by the medals and records, inspiration and heartache of the London Olympics.

Margaret Abbott was just 22 when she travelled from Chicago to Paris in 1899 along with her mother, literary editor and novelist Mary Perkins Ives Abbott.

Clean-up crews are scooping tons of dead fish from the surface of lake near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro’s top law enforcement official says the murder of a Shell Oil executive has baffled police, but pledged to spare no effort to solve the crime.