Brazil 2 Colombia 1

Brazil was in mourning today after an overpass collapsed in Belo Horizonte, reportedly killing two people.

WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

Neymar is fully fit and ready to lead Brazil one step closer to their first World Cup on home soil.

Arjen Robben has escaped punishment from Fifa after he admitted diving during the Netherlands’ late win over Mexico — a "stupid action" the winger hopes everyone can move on from.

Arjen Robben courted further World Cup controversy by insisting he was fouled for the penalty that led to Holland’s last-gasp 2-1 win over Mexico, but apologised for diving earlier in the match.

Colombia 2 Uruguay 0

This country’s Bureau Of Tropical Diseases has issued an urgent warning about an expected massive outbreak of yellow fever next Friday.

Brazil 1 Chile 1 (AET) (Brazil win 3-2 on penalties)

Netherlands 2 Mexico 1

Greece 2 Ivory Coast 1

Mexico have been cleared of improper conduct by their fans following complaints that their supporters used homophobic chants.

Miroslav Klose has moved level with Ronaldo as the World Cup’s top goalscorer of all-time — a record the Germany striker now wants all for himself.

WORLD CUP GROUP C:

Brazil coach Luis Felipe Scolari was less than impressed with taking only a point against Mexico as his side played out a frustrating goalless draw in Tuesday night’s World Cup Group A fixture at Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza.

Brazil 0 Mexico 0

Brazil 0 Mexico 0

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari believes Mexico are good enough to cause his side plenty of problems when the two Group A leaders clash in Fortaleza on Tuesday.

The World Cup may be a wonderful tournament and this could be one of the best ever, but let’s face it, the group stage can turn into a drag.

Robbie Keane insists he is happy to carry the burden of supplying the goals to fire the Republic of Ireland into the finals of Euro 2016.

The risk of an outbreak of dengue fever during the upcoming soccer World Cup in Brazil is serious enough to warrant a high alert in three of the 12 host cities, according to an early warning system for the disease.

Google has updated its Street View feature so users can now travel back through time and see how places have changed since the mapping service launched in 2007.

Roy Hodgson is still putting his £10 on England to win the World Cup, but Football Association chairman Greg Dyke clearly thinks the team have no chance of getting out of their “group of death”.

In journalism, there are few moments less inspiring than writing about the hypothetical ramifications that balls being pulled from a bowl might have six months down the line.

Those of us who have long been inclined to stress the first syllable in Confederations Cup have had our prejudices thoroughly challenged by the 2013 model.

About 5,000 anti-government protesters fought police last night near a stadium that hosted a semi-final at the Confederations Cup football tournament.

Spain have dismissed a Brazilian media story accusing them of hosting a party at their hotel in Recife with alcohol, women and a game of strip-poker after their Confederations Cup opener against Uruguay last week.

Italy striker Mario Balotelli is out of the Confederations Cup semi-final against Spain because of injury.

Brazil’s president has broken her silence after more than a week of massive, violent protests rocked the country.

FIFA today insisted there were no plans to abandon the Confederations Cup in Brazil despite the protests that have affected the tournament.

A bus carrying 40 passengers on a shopping trip plunged 50 feet off a cliff in north-eastern Brazil today, killing 11 people and injuring 29, authorities say.

There were no survivors among the 155 people on board the Brazilian jetliner that was in collision with a smaller plane and crashed in the Amazon rainforest in the nation’s worst air disaster.

Search crews were lowered by ropes from helicopters through dense jungle searched the wreckage of a Brazilian jetliner that apparently clipped an executive jet and slammed into the ground in the Amazon rain forest, probably killing all 155 people aboard.

The Brazilian air force continued searching this morning in the densely forested Amazon region for a Gol airlines jet with 155 people aboard that went missing yesterday, Brazilian aviation authorities said.

Brazilian authorities have arrested three more men suspected of taking part in the world’s biggest cash robbery, and a fourth allegedly has been kidnapped, officials said today.

THE Hollywood scriptwriters are already lining up to pen the screen version of an audacious €54.75m heist uncovered in north-eastern Brazil.

Thieves spent three months tunnelling under a busy city avenue in north-eastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off one of the world’s biggest robberies.

POLICE have busted a German-based sex tourism organisation that catered to European tourists visiting north-eastern Brazil and which also allegedly recruited young women to work as prostitutes in Europe, officials said.