Rio de Janeiro News

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided that Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will host the Olympics in 2016. The voting was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Brazil is elated about this decision. The Olympics will be conducted in a tropical South American...

Brazil is the venue of the 2016 Olympics. The sudden blackout it experienced from 10.15 pm is viewed seriously by the administration – was it an act of sabotage? A repeat during the Olympic Games could throw all preparations out...

Millions of people in two of Brazil’s most populous cities lit candles and opened their windows late Tuesday evening, waiting for the lights to return after a huge hydroelectric power plant failed. The blackouts affected Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paula...

For the first time south america won the vote for hosting the 2016 olympic game when Rio De Janeiro got the dream to host olympic.madrid, chicago, tokyo were on the final rounds of hosting the olympic games but Rio De...

Spiders are creepy insects and little Miss Muffet was terribly frightened by one as she sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Now, a Briton has been caught trying to smuggle out live spiders – of all things!...

As uncommon as it is to watch your own funeral, it happened on Monday in Rio de Janeiro. Ademir Jorge Gocalves, 59, shocked his morning family by showing up very much alive at his funeral. Brazilian custom is to bury...