One uniquely Brazilian option is barbecued cheese ... end (not to be confused with Lagoinha da Ponta das Canas, a beach at the north tip of the island). You'll have to work a little for ...

Our host city for the first World Cup match; our triumph over the Black Stars, Natal, sits in the North ... the sand. Beach soccer, or beasal, as its called here, started in Brazil back in 1992.

The patches of oil began appearing in early September and have now turned up along a 2,000km stretch of Atlantic coastline. The source of large blots of oil staining more than 130 beaches in ...