Rio de Janeiro
The 2016 Rio Olympics low-budget, low-tech opening ceremony
Brazil wants you to know it is not the kind of country to spend more than it needs to on superficial ceremonies
The show will go on, sewage and all
Rio’s troubles are par for the course for a modern Olympics
Nem, Rio’s hardened criminal and anti-hero
The life of Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, better known as ‘Nem’
Harry hits the beach and wears a brotherly mask, literally
On the last leg of his first solo royal tour, Prince Harry showed more of his relaxed, humorous nature to denizens of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In a day spent largely on sports activities, he donned a face mask of his older brother, William, for a charity run. He also hit the beach, teaching kids the wonderfully strange rules of rugby; a sport just starting to take off in Latin America. And then, he got a lesson himself in Rio’s most famous past time—beach volleyball. Alas, photographers’ dreams of the ultimate photo op was for naught: the female players were far more covered up than they usually are in professional tournaments.
A gondola to the favelas
Rio de Janeiro is lifting up its poor—literally
Rio’s bold plan to wall in the favelas
When the Dona Marta slum was walled in, its property values rose
The mystery of Air France flight 447
Experts try to piece the tragedy together, without the help of a black box, cockpit recorder or confirmation of the wreckage