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Rio de Janeiro’s residents, or Cariocas, don’t need the Olympics to prove their city is the center of the sporting world — they know...
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Rio de Janeiro’s residents, or Cariocas, don’t need the Olympics to prove their city is the center of the sporting world — they know...
Controversy ignited over working conditions for laborers racing to repair shambolic conditions at the athletes’ Village in Rio just nine days before the Olympics....
Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes has taken a big hop backwards in what was interpreted as his jibe over sending a kangaroo to an Australian...
Two armed police officers accused of briefly kidnapping and extorting a New Zealand jiu-jitsu athlete in Rio de Janeiro have been arrested, said Brazil’s...
Brazil’s interim president, who faces accusations of using an impeachment drive against Dilma Rousseff to mount a coup, promised Wednesday that the upcoming Olympics...
Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games in less than four weeks, but crime and economic crisis mean the party-loving Brazilian city is glum...
Police in Rio de Janeiro state, which hosts next month’s Olympics, killed at least 645 people last year and 8,000 over the last decade,...
Members of a huge police force sent to secure crime-ridden Rio before the Olympics next month have already come under gunfire, officials said Wednesday...
Crime-plagued, cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro struck an optimistic note Tuesday with 30 days to go before becoming South America’s first city to stage the...
Rio de Janeiro’s mayor lashed out Sunday at an opinion piece in The New York Times which warned of “catastrophe” at next month’s Olympic...