The Latest Breaking News from Rio

Four doctors have been shot — three of them fatally — beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in what may have been a politically motivated execution

Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961, the country is sweltering amid unforgiving and unseasonal temperatures

A 5-year-old girl has been buried in Rio de Janeiro, two days after she was fatally shot as shantytown residents protested against alleged police violence

Thiago Menezes Flausino, who dreamed of becoming a footballer, was the ninth child to die in a shooting this year in Rio

Farah added to his gold medals won at London 2012.

Enigma is here, and his name is John Cena

In Portugal for World Youth Day, one of Catholicism's largest gatherings, Pope Francis has said he'll continue urging young people to “make a mess” – a reference to the exhortation made during his first youth day event in Rio in 2013, when the Pontiff called on young people to shake…

Nine people were killed Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a week of security force raids that have left at least 44 dead across Brazil.

A police raid in a low-income neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro set off a gunbattle that killed nine people and wounded two officers, marking the latest incident in a wave of lethal policing in Brazil