Dwarfs at the Rio Paralympics are getting the big stage they say they deserve.

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.

Australia's Olympians will be issued with free super-strength condoms in Rio to minimise any infection from the Zika virus, officials say on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of people joins peaceful demonstrations across Brazil against government corruption.