Track-It Rio de Janeiro

DALLAS -- The NBA All-Star Game is only a week away, but it's hard to fathom that a basketball-record 90,000-plus fans will be in Cowboys Stadium to see it. Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — A rancher accused of masterminding the 2005 killing of an activist American nun in the Amazon is back in jail, a Brazilian television station reported Saturday. Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — She is the Shirley Temple of samba, a 7-year-old named to a coveted Carnival role normally reserved for barely clad models who have undergone more plastic surgeries than little Julia Lira has seen birthdays. Naming the girl drum... Read more

Feb. 4--February in Milwaukee: There's nowhere to run. Nowhere to run.

The temperature along the Gulf Coast right now sinks into the 40s or lower. The cost of an airline ticket to 90-degree Rio de Janeiro? Around $1,200. Read more

Feb. 4--Olympic ice hockey player Angela Ruggiero is a candidate for the International Olympic Committee, an election that would help the U.S. Olympic Committee repair its less-than-spectacular overseas image and give the Harvard graduate a USOC... Read more

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's best-known writer is making it clear he doesn't want Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair involved in planning for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen says she gave birth to her son in a bathtub and that it didn't hurt a bit. Read more

Jan. 31--PARK CITY -- Movies that explore places most people don't go -- a family feud in the Ozarks and a U.S. Army combat unit in Afghanistan -- were the big winners at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday he is in "perfect health" two days after being hospitalized for a high-blood-pressure attack that forced him to cancel his attendance at a global economic forum.... Read more

PARK CITY, Utah -- When documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker smiles and says, "I can't complain my life isn't varied," she is not kidding. While most directors would be grateful to have one film in Sundance, Walker has two compelling works and they... Read more