Australia's Olympians will be issued with free super-strength condoms in Rio to minimise any infection from the Zika virus, officials say on Monday.

Brazil's suspended President, Dilma Rousseff, criticises the new interim government created by her former Vice-President, Michel Temer, for being entirely made up of white male politicians.

Brazil enters a new era as interim president Michel Temer took power from suspended leader Dilma Rousseff, installing a business-friendly government that ends 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest nation.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her. Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that it sees no need to cancel, delay or move the Rio Olympic Games because of the Zika virus threat.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to halt a vote in the Senate on opening an impeachment trial and suspending her from office.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus may be even more dangerous than previously thought, scientists in Brazil say.

With 100 days to go before the Olympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic flame has been handed over in Athens to the Brazilian authorities.

Neymar will not play for Brazil at the Copa America but will be available for the Rio Olympics, according to the striker's club Barcelona.

Neymar will miss the Copa America in June, but will be released to represent his country at the Rio Olympics in August, FC Barcelona announced on Wednesday.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff says she is "outraged" at attempts to impeach her and has a clear conscience.

Brazil's lower house of congress votes to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of manipulating government figures.

Brazil's lower house of Congress is due to hold a crucial vote on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts for political gains.

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has denounced a "coup" plot against her, suggesting that Vice-President Michel Temer is one of the "conspirators".

Scientists in Brazil uncovers new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, that attacks the brain and spinal cord.

Brazil's health ministry says it will launch a smartphone application to track the Zika virus during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and help visitors detect the disease.

South Korean health authorities say a man who recently returned home from Brazil has been confirmed to be infected with the Zika virus.

Every year since 2011 Jinjing, a South American Magellanic penguin swims 8,000 kilometers to Brazil to meet and hangout his human friend who also happened to be his savior.

Brazilian prosecutors are filing charges against ex-President Lula da Silva in a money laundering investigation, officials say.

Evidence mounted linking Zika to the birth defect microcephaly, and the United Nations health agency set a review of travel advice related to the outbreak of the virus while US officials planned strategy to control mosquitoes that spread it.