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Argentina’s Racing Club beat Brazil’s Botafogo 2-0 on Thursday to win the Recopa Sudamericana title by 4-0 on aggregate.

The São Paulo Civil Police shared that 32-year-old Charlotte Peet boarded a bus at the Tietê Bus Terminal bound for Rio de Janeiro, according to Brazilian news outlets Globo, SB

Charlotte Peet, 32, last contacted a friend in Rio de Janeiro on February 8, according to a Tuesday statement from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in Brazil (ACIE).

Luciano Vietto of Argentina's Racing Club celebrates scoring his side's opening goal on a penalty kick against Brazil's Botafogo during the Recopa Sudamericana first leg final soccer match at Presiden

Startling images show an airplane’s nose completely smashed in and smeared in blood from a bird strike. Latam flight LA3367 had just taken off from Rio de Janeiro heading to São Paulo in Brazil on Thursday when it was struck by birds,

Scheduled for May 3, the event will launch the Todo Mundo no Rio initiative, which aims to highlight economic benefits of entertainment in Rio de Janeiro

This year, the 31-year-old took on the new challenge of joining some of Brazil's most traditional samba artists as a songwriter for a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro. Anitta is a songwriter for the Unidos da Tijuca samba school,

Her family and the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (ACIE) are calling on authorities in Brazil to step up their efforts to find Peet. The correspondents association said the case had been referred to police in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian Felipe Franco shoots the ball during a Preliminaries round group B men’s water polo match at the XV Pan American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 July 2007. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI

Two Racing fans were shot on Wednesday afternoon during an attempted robbery on Barra de Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hours before the Recopa Sudamericana final between La Academia and Botafogo.