Just two days on from the World Cup draw and Brazil returned to a shocking and vicious reality on Sunday night.

Police are not discarding the possibility that human trafficking played a role in the disappearance of a former Miss Brazil who hasn’t contacted her family in nearly six months.

A COLOMBIAN rider claimed the yellow jersey for the first time in Tour de France history yesterday as Lance Armstrong’s US Postal team took a firm grip on the centenary running of the world’s most famous cycling race.