Record-seeking Britain pull out all the stops for their Rio Olympics campaign -- to the extent of employing their own plumber for the leaky athletes' village.

Brazil rule goalkeeper Fernando Prass out of their Olympic campaign on Sunday after he injures an elbow warming up.

Brazilian law enforcement agents storm a hideout near Sao Paulo on Sunday and free the kidnapped mother-in-law of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

Teenage star Gabriel Barbosa scores a superb invidivual goal as Neymar returns to lead Brazil to a comfortable 2-0 victory over Japan.

Former Inter Milan, Parma and Roma forward Adriano was once earning £80,000 per week in the prime of his career, but these days is without a club and living among gun-wielding gangs in Rio.

Brazilian protesters claim they have extinguished the Olympic torch as it makes its way to Rio de Janeiro.

Neymar highlights the importance of Lionel Messi at Barcelona while hinting that he wants compatriot Gabriel Jesus to join the Catalan giants.

Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law has been kidnapped in Brazil with criminals demanding a ransom of £28 million, according to reports.

The mother-in-law of Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has been kidnapped in Sao Paulo and criminals are demanding 120 million reais ($36.5 million) in ransom, according to reports in a leading Brazilian news magazine.

Brazil hold 10 presumed Islamist militants in isolation cells at a maximum security jail as police comb their computers and mobile phones for information about possible threats to next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Russia's FSB secret service backed doping cover-ups by anti-doping laboratories in Moscow and Sochi, an independent report reveals.

The report to be released Monday into allegations of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia has already sparked rumblings it could trigger the "nuclear option" of a full ban of Russia from the Rio Olympics.

Brazilian legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as 'Pele', on Wednesday wrote on his Twitter account that he has composed and recorded a song, titled 'Esperanca' (Hope), for the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil football legend Pele is getting married Tuesday for the third time, tying the knot with his girlfriend of six years Marcia Cibele Aoki.

Brazil football legend Pele is all set to get married for the third time, tying the knot with his girlfriend of six years Marcia Cibele Aoki.

Bangladesh received two more wild cards for the Rio Olympic Games as the number of confirmed participation for the country increased to four.

Michel Temer, the interim president of Brazil, has welcomed people of the world to Brazil to be part of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro in August-September.

Neymar will stay with Barcelona after signing a five-year contract, the club have announced.

Parts of a mutilated body wash up on the sands of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, just meters (yards) from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the upcoming Olympics.

Strikers Neymar and Douglas Costa head a young Brazil Olympic football squad looking to bounce back from humiliation in the Copa America Centenario.