Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro have invaded the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court in Brasilia, in a grim echo of the US Capitol invasion almost exactly two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has taken an early lead in the initial tally of the country's presidential election, ahead of challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose Workers Party draws more support from regions that are slower to report.
More than 100 people are missing or confirmed dead in Brazil after mudslides and major floods brought about by heavy rains tore through several urban neighbourhoods in the northeastern part of the country.
Shares in Brazilian plane manufacturers Embraer SA have risen nearly five per cent after the company announced 60 electric plane orders from Australia.
Dozens of people in a southeastern Brazilian city have been injured when a footpath next to a river collapsed just after Christmas lights were illuminated as the main attraction of a popular holiday season event, officials say.
Temperatures have fallen in swathes of Brazil - with rare snowfall in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the country's centre-south to threaten coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frosts.
Federal prosecutors in Brazil are seeking a definitive settlement with miner Samarco and its shareholders, BHP Group and Vale, for damages caused by the rupture of a tailings dam in 2015, the lead prosecutor has told Reuters.
