Temperatures in Rio de Janeiro reached 111 degrees Fahrenheit — about 145 degrees hotter than Bismarck, North Dakota.

A British journalist who is missing in Brazil may be hundreds of miles away from her last known location, it has emerged. Charlotte Peet, 32, vanished more than two weeks ago after flying to the country – where she had worked as a foreign correspondent – without telling her family.

Rio de Janeiro has recorded its hottest day in at least a decade when temperatures reached 44 degrees Celsius (111 F) as residents try to cool off in the ocean or under public showers

Rest and recuperation: two words that don’t necessarily come to mind when you think of Rio De Janeiro. The beachy Brazilian city is, after all, the world's party capital – particularly when Carnival arrives at the end of February.

Teenage tennis sensation João Fonseca frustrated his home fans at the Rio Open in a first-round loss two days after winning his first ATP title.

Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras expects to boost diesel output by some 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year as it expands low-sulfur diesel production in some of its refineries, according to the firm's head of industrial processes.