Sao Paulo

Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's resignation Aug. 16, blaming her and the leftist Workers' Party for runaway corruption and looming recession in Latin America's biggest country.

The Turkish Super League kicks off with last year's runner-up, Fenerbahçe, taking on Eski?ehirspor in Istanbul, the first game of a season which will be marked by tens of millions of dollars in summer signings by both title contenders and weaker teams alike. 

It’s that time of the year again, when glamorous bottoms with gorgeous buttocks shamelessly stride down the streets of Sao Paulo with their green and yello bikinis to promote the coveted Miss Bum Brazil competition. This year’s 27 ladies include a former porn star, Kardashian look alikes and a DJ famous for her breast implants.

Bulgaria's reigning football champion Ludogorets signed on Wednesday a contract with the Brazilian player Natanael Batista Pimienta.

Before coming to Razgrad, the 24-year-old left back played for the Brazilian team Atletico Paranaense, where he recorded 55 games and scored one goal and seven assists.

The Bulgarian reigning football champion Ludogorets signed a contract with one of the most promising players of Sao Paulo - Jonathan Renato Barbosa - Cafu.

The 24-year-old Brazilian, who plays as a winger, joins the Bulgarian team after having played eleven matches for Sao Paulo this season.

A male crew member of Turkish Airlines (THY) has been detained for a bomb hoax on a plane flying from Istanbul to Basel in April.

Istanbul's ISO Art Gallery is set to host a painting exhibition by Solange Greco, wife of the consul-general of Brazil in Istanbul. Titled "Remains of My Life in Istanbul and Elsewhere," the exhibition will open on July 14. 

Romania's tennis player Adrian Ungur, 30, advanced to the second round of the men's single event at the 106,500-euro Caltanissetta ATP Challenger 2015 tournament in Italy after defeating French Maxime Hamou, 20, on Monday, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Ungur, ranked 193rd in the ATP ranking, needed two hours and ten minutes to defeat number 232 in the world's ranking.

Spanish restaurant “El Celler de Can Roca” once more won the coveted prize of the best restaurant in the world, overcoming 2014’s champion “Noma”. In recent years, the two restaurants have been exchanging places, with both winning 1st prize.

Turkish Airlines (THY), Turkey's national flag-carrier, will begin direct flights to Miami on Oct. 25, the company announced on May 13.

The move makes Miami the company's 12th destination in the Americas, on top of existing services to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Toronto, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Boston, Montreal and San Francisco.