Stuart Grudgings

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced the plane that disappeared more than two weeks ago crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

A Malaysia Airlines flight has gone missing, presumably crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its path scour the area for wreckage.

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has lost contact with air traffic controllers.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced he will dissolve Parliament, paving the way for a general election later this month.

Brazil’s president-elect Dilma Rousseff vowed to step up the fight against poverty without forfeiting economic stability.

Brazilians are expected to elect a woman as president for the first time, backing her to emerge from the shadow of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The world’s largest rain forest is a great cauldron of biodiversity that has already produced medicine for diseases such as malaria.

Rolf Glaser zips his motorbike up the alleyways of Vidigal slum, past a bunch of cheerful drug traffickers, and emerges at a cliffside plateau.

In any endurance event, an unprepared athlete is in danger of hitting ”the wall” — a point when the muscles weaken and the spirit droops.

They avoid taking buses, make sure friends know their schedules, and rarely go out when it’s dark.

At first glance, the ”City of Music” appears to be in perfect harmony with Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s lyrical capital of Carnival.