The Greek ambassador in Brazil is probably murdered. Police found Thursday a corpse in a burnt-out car in the north of the city of Rio de Janeiro and assumes that it is the diplomat.
The goalkeeper Danilo Chapeco Armenian was posthumously named player of the year in Brazil. In online voting Monday under Brazilian football fans Danilo got 48 percent of the vote.
Demonstrators police on Tuesday continued to attack in Rio de Janeiro. A protest against the austerity measures of the Brazilian government of Michel Temer was seriously out of hand when police and demonstrators together caught up in conflict. According to the BBC the protests Tuesday were the most violent so far.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee team does not know whether there will be back in action at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. This year at the Games in Rio de Janeiro took ten refugees along under the Olympic flag. It was the first time that such a team was formed.
2016 was an eventful year, shows once more from the new annual survey of social network Twitter. It contains the most popular trending topics, or topics on the medium most about is spoken. At one place in the Dutch trend list: Brexit.
2016 was an eventful year, shows once more from the new annual survey of social network Twitter. It contains the most popular trending topics, or topics on the medium most about is spoken. At one place in the Dutch trend list: Brexit.
At least four officers were killed when a police helicopter crashed Rio de Janeiro. That happened after a day of heavy fighting between police and alleged criminals in a slum area known as the City of God, reported local media.
The Brazilian government has frozen the bank accounts of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The board of Rio still needs to repay a substantial debt, according to the BBC.
Police in Brazil on Sunday harshly dispersed a peaceful protest against the ousting of President Dilma Rousseff. Agents put under more tear gas against the demonstrators.
Twitter users have posted 187 million tweets about the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Who viewed a total of 75 million times, according to Twitter.
A hilarious TV moment yesterday at the BBC. At the time presenter Dan Walker from the beach in Rio de Janeiro provides an update of the Olympics, a couple in the background in the sand is very intimate.
The German coach of the canoe slalom, Stefan Henze, Monday deceased to the injuries he suffered last week after a serious accident in a taxi.
A gruesome discovery in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro. Near the place where the Olympic sailors into action on Sunday found a bone.
US swimmer Ryan Lochte was robbed Saturday night along with three others in Rio De Janeiro. That confirmed the medalist at NBC.
Stolen smartphones, lost passports, injury and a brutal robbery. The Dutch embassy has so far shot 36 times to help Dutch who got into trouble in and around Rio de Janeiro. This concerns both for tourists and athletes themselves.
Brazilian police have arrested on Thursday (local time) two alleged sympathizers of terror group Islamic State (IS). The duo was possible to plan in question to carry out an attack during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The organizers of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro taking action to improve safety. A series of violent incidents over the past week cast a shadow over the international sporting event.
The Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has to leave the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he had drunk Saturday night outside the Olympic village alcohol and only returned early in the morning. But Van Gelder is certainly not the first athlete who comes discredited during the Games. Five high-profile scandals in the games in a row.
It allows spectators at Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro indeed demonstrate freely. The organizing committee, the state government of Rio and the Brazilian government should not deter visitors from peaceful political expression, a Brazilian judge ruled Monday.
The BURQINI last Sunday made its appearance at the Olympics. Where the German ladies scantily dressed the field came up, the Egyptian team appeared in BURQINI. And that gave special images.
At the finish of the cycling race on the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro was Saturday heard a loud explosion. It would be a controlled explosion of a suspicious package.
The mystery of the alleged involvement of the Russian vice consul at the shooting of a robber near the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro seems to be solved. The man, who wrest the gun from his attacker knew Thursday and then shot him, police had given false identity papers. It would appear that he was Russian vice consul. The shooter turned out just to be Brazilian, local media reported Friday.
The Russian Embassy in Brazil has denied that the vice consul has been involved in a shooting in Rio de Janeiro, where a robber was killed. Brazilian media reported Thursday on the authority of the police that the Russian vice consul shot a robber with his own weapon.
Protesters Wednesday in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro clashed with riot police during the passage of the Olympic torch. Hundreds of protesters blocked the route. The police officers were pelted with stones. It was then intervened hard with tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Google and YouTube will significantly unpack the Olympics. Which was published on the blog of the video and zoekmachinetak company.
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be available from August 16 in the Dutch shops. Android Planet reported citing sources.
It is still quiet around the now almost a week kidnapped mother of Bernie Ecclestone (85). The 67-year-old Aparedida Schunck- the mother of Eccles Tones 47 years younger wife Fabiana flosi- disappeared last Friday at her home in Sao Paulo.
Police in Rio de Janeiro in view of the Olympic Games from Sunday, received the support of 22,000 men of the Brazilian Armed Forces. In total, rounding the 51,600 men and women of the police and the army out to ensure the safety of the city and the Games.
A judge in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday the WhatsApp messaging across the country paralyzed because the company refuses to provide information to a police investigation. It is according to the Brazilian O Globo medium now the third time that the flattening popular means of communication in Brazil because of a conflict with the law.
Samsung will launch on August 2, the new Galaxy Note 7. That also happens in New York, Rio de Janeiro and London. Samsung has sent the invitation Wednesday.
