The Latest Breaking News from Rio de Janeiro

Brazil's landmark fake news law hit a hurdle this week when a vote in parliament was postponed. If it's eventually passed, online life will change for more than 160 million Brazilians who use social media, and potentially for internet users around the world. But Big Tech is putting up a…

UFC veteran Felipe Colares was returning home from training when he was struck by a bus and died Monday in Rio de Janeiro.

A French public prosecutor is appealing a court decision that had cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of responsibility in France’s worst aviation disaster, the crash of a plane headed from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in June 2009 that killed all 228 people on board.

Paris court clears aviation giants over disaster that killed 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris

Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean

A Rio de Janeiro court sentenced Veronica Costa to 10 years and eight months, stipulating that her sentence must be served in a prison

Pedro de Lima, 11, was filmed by a driver as he rode to his school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a horse after his bike got a flat tyre - and his mother had no idea

A United Airlines flight bound from Houston to Rio De Janeiro returned to Bush Intercontinental Airport for an emergency landing shortly after takeoff

For the first time since poverty, lack of opportunity and economic inequality caused favelas to mushroom across many of the nation’s cities, Brazil’s biggest favela isn’t in Rio de Janeiro

Some 200 protesters have gathered beneath Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain to protest the ongoing construction of ziplines aimed at boosting tourism, alleging it will cause unacceptable impacts

At least 13 people were killed in clashes with police just outside Brazil's seaside city of Rio de Janeiro after a raid to arrest a gang leader, police said on Thursday, marking another bloody episode in the sprawling metro area.