Porto Alegre

Rain continued to soak waterlogged southern Brazil on Saturday, bringing fresh misery to victims of flooding that has killed 136 people so far.

"Many people see the rain and are traumatized. We've seen how scared people are," said Enio Posti, a firefighter in Porto Alegre, capital of stricken Rio Grande do Sul state.

Raging floods and mudslides have killed at least 57 people in southern Brazil and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes, the country's civil defense agency said on Saturday.

At least 74 people were injured and another 67 missing from the catastrophic flooding, civil defense said.

This is the horrific moment two young cousins were forced to dig their own grave before being shot and set on fire.
Sick murderers filmed the horrifying build up and aftermath of the execution of Wagner da Rosa, 17, and Victor da Rosa, 22, in Brazil.
The youngsters were held at gunpoint by a rival gang in Porto Alegre after being captured by the thugs.

Shocking video footage from a security camera in Brazil has surfaced showing a young woman being shot and killed by a thief in her car. The 33-year-old woman, who was a carnival queen, can be seen waiting to pick up her for her daughter in her car from a dance class, when a man approaches her window and shoots at her while trying to pull her out of the vehicle to steal it.

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff left the presidential palace in Brasilia last week and boarded a plane for her adopted home city of Porto Alegre. She leaves behind a successor who risks indictment for far worse offences than the ones that brought her down, and a country that has lost its right to a place among the BRICS.

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.

Germany and France snuffed out African hopes and reached the World Cup quarter-finals on June 30 with hard-won victories over Algeria and Nigeria, while Uruguay striker Luis Suarez broke his silence to apologise for biting.

Argentina's Lionel Messi continued his World Cup dual with Neymar by scoring twice in a 3-2 win over Nigeria while Switzerland's Xherdan Shaqiri got in on the act with a magnificent hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Honduras on June 25.

Football's world governing body FIFA is concerned with the preparation for the World Cup in Brazil, which starts on June 12.

Three of the stadiums, in Natal, Porto Alegre, and Sao Paulo are yet to be completed and are "racing against the clock", as FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke tweeted.

Mevlüt Erdinç and Caner Erkin scored in the second half as Turkey beat World Cup-bound Honduras 2-0 in an international friendly on Wednesday night.

Erdinç opened the scoring in the 70th minute with a shot from in front and was involved again in the 83rd when he passed to Erkin, who drove a shot into the back of the net.