Two passengers on a metro train were hit by bullets but survived ... children is a joke," he told O Dia newspaper. Reuters Rio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent states Rio de Janeiro ...

The metro-line project was built at a cost of 9.7 billion reais (some US$3 billion), with the Rio de Janeiro state government providing 8.5 billion reais of the total and the rest coming from ...

For a hassle-free means of transportation from Rio de Janeiro International Airport ... and doesn't expire after purchase. A variety of metro-bus combination ticket options are also available.

It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. And, just as Rio in its early days was subject to attack by (mostly French) pirates and ...