Vive la France – World Cup winners dominate the Champions League
France’s World Cup winners have followed up their summer success by powering their clubs to the knock-out stages of the Champion League.
Brazil
Brazil football club defends training ground management after 10 killed in fire
Under mounting criticism, Brazilian football club Flamengo has defended its management of the training ground where a fire killed 10 of its academy players at a dormitory that had been registered with the city as a car park.
Brazilian football club criticised following fatal fire
Brazilian football club Flamengo has come under mounting criticism for licensing issues at its training ground, a day after a fire ripped through a dormitory and left 10 teenagers dead.
Fans gather after fire kills 10 at Brazilian football academy
Friends, fans and neighbours have gathered outside the academy for Brazil’s popular professional football club Flamengo after a fire swept through sleeping quarters, killing 10 people and injuring three teenagers.
Brazilian politician Ana Paula da Silva defends outfit after receiving criticism
Brazilian politician Ana Paula da Silva has defended herself against online criticism after she wore a revealing outfit for a swearing-in ceremony at the Santa Catarina state assembly.
Ceremony held to remember victims of Brazil mining dam collapse
A ceremony has been held to remember victims of the mining dam collapse exactly a week after the disaster in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Brazilian judge orders five arrests over dam collapse tragedy
Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for five people in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people and left nearly 300 missing as it plastered part of a small city with reddish-brown mud and iron ore mining waste.
At least 40 dead after Brazilian dam bursts leaving hundreds missing
An estimated 300 people are missing after the collapse of a dam which was holding back mining waste in south-eastern Brazil.
Up to 300 people missing after Brazilian dam bursts
Rescuers are searching for survivors in a huge area of south-eastern Brazil buried by mud after the collapse of a dam holding back mining waste.
Hundreds missing after Brazil dam bursts
At least seven people have died and around 200 remain missing after a mining dam collapsed in Brazil.
Brazil’s hardline leader makes conciliatory Davos speech on environment
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has pledged to work “in harmony with the world” to cut carbon emissions, aiming to quell international concerns that his country, the main custodian of the oxygen-rich Amazon, could put economic interests over environmental ones.
At least 600 homes destroyed in Brazil blaze
At least 600 wooden houses have been destroyed in a fire in northern Brazil, authorities said.
Cathedral gun attack dead remembered as fifth victim dies
Close to 1,000 people have attended a memorial service for the people gunned down inside a cathedral in southeastern Brazil, and authorities said the toll of dead had risen to five.
Four killed as gunman opens fire in Brazilian cathedral after mass
A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after mass, killing four and leaving four others injured before turning a gun on himself, authorities said.
‘Biological wonder’ created by termites discovered in Brazil
Termites have created a wonder of the world as old as the pyramids that dwarf the ancient Egyptian monuments in scale, scientists have discovered.
Brown: I told team that Brazil were terrified of us because I saw them all holding hands
Twenty years ago Scotland were at the epicentre of global football as they kicked off the World Cup in front of an audience of two billion.
Scientists put literary spin on names for seven newly-discovered spider species
Famous spider characters from the Harry Potter series, Charlotte’s Web and other fantasy novels and literary classics have been immortalised in science after researchers named seven new spider species after them.
British woman in hospital in Brazil ‘after being shot while looking for water’
A British tourist is being treated in hospital in Brazil after she was reportedly shot while her family were looking for water.
Police appeal for witnesses after Brazilian woman dies following motorbike crash on North-east road
A woman has died after a motorbike crash on one of the North-east’s most popular tourist routes.
World Cup-winning Brazil captain Carlos Alberto dies aged 72
Legendary Brazilian defender and 1970 World Cup winner Carlos Alberto has died aged 72.
Video: Dash cam captures man cheats death after being flung out of crashing truck
This incredible video shows the moment a man cheated death after he was flung from a truck like a ragdoll.