Brazil

Ahead of the World Cup 2014, DJ Gilles Peterson brings you his playlist of Brazilian beats – a perfect accompaniment for idling in the sun. All he wants in return is help tracking down a rare record.

Manager Roy Hodgson wants a balance between youth and experience in England’s 2014 World Cup squad. But John Anderson says his selection is hardly a blueprint for world football domination.

“We’re not English, we are Scouse,” may be a popular terrace chat at Anfield – but five Liverpool players are selected to represent England at the World Cup in Brazil.

Sports stars, including Luiz Suarez, post pictures of themselves eating a banana, in support of Barcelona footballer Dani Alves, who responded to racist taunts during a match by doing the same.

Gunshots are fired in Rio de Janeiro’s tourist hotspot of Copacabana as residents demonstrate against the death of a 26-year-old man from the area.

Videos of people dancing to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” are pouring onto the web: most recently in a “viral” British Muslims video – but videos are also emerging from the most unlikely of places.

Squatters in Rio de Janeiro clash with police after a Brazilian court ordered the eviction of nearly five thousand people from abandoned buildings.

England supporters are having to pay a hefty £90 for the latest World Cup replica shirt – but compared to other nations going to Brazil they may not be getting such a raw deal.

Brazilian police stage a major operation inside the Mare favela in Rio de Janeiro – considered to be the city’s most dangerous drug-trafficking area.

The Black Watch, a cruise ship carrying 577 British passengers around the world, sets sail again after being forced to stop off the southern tip of the South American coast with mechanical problems.

Brazil’s security forces are trying to clear Rio de Janeiro’s gang-held favelas before next year’s football World Cup. But they have a hard job on their hands, as Guillermo Galdos reports.

Ronnie Biggs, who won worldwide notoriety after escaping prison following the Great Train Robbery, has died aged 84.

You know kick off for the 2014 World Cup is getting close when the official match ball is unveiled! it’s called the ‘Brazuca’ and it has 6 panels as opposed to 8….Keme Nzerem explains.