Uruguay and Barcelona football striker Luis Suarez said he hopes the 2018 World Cup will provide redemption for his ignominious exit from football's showpiece event in Brazil four years ago.

At least 13 people died and 39 others were injured in a five-vehicle traffic accident on an expressway alongside the municipality of Grao Mogol in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, officials said.

The Brazilian government has received over $4.8 million for continuing their actions to protect the ozone layer, officials said.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won his fifth race of the Formula One season at the Brazilian Grand Prix to all but secure second place in the driver's championship.

The president of Brazil announced on Saturday that he will ask the Supreme Court to suspend the investigation opened against him for the suspected crimes of corruption and obstruction of justice.

An Australian court sentenced a man to 22 years in prison on Wednesday for assaulting two 24-year-old female tourists, a Brazilian and a German, in the remote locality of Salt Creek in February 2016.

Brazil's national football team on Thursday regained the top spot in the FIFA world rankings for the first time since 2010. Argentina slipped one position to be at second spot, while World Cup winner Germany stayed in third place, followed by Chile in fourth, reports Efe.

It’s been a dismissal performance by the Indian football side in relent past. The Indian side slipped one place to be at 130th in the latest FIFA rankings.

Former Brazil midfielder Michel Bastos has signed a two-year contract with reigning Brazilian football champions Palmeiras.

Focusing on tightening the diplomatic grip over Pakistan, India will push its voice to demand cooperation, including support for a comprehensive global convention to tackle the menace, during annual summit of BRICS, 5-nations representing nearly half of the world's population.