The Los Angeles Chargers will play their 2025 season opener in Brazil against an opponent to be announced this spring.

A plane departing Rio de Janiero for São Paulo struck a bird during takeoff, which caved in the plane's nose and left the plane streaked in blood. No casualties were reported, and the plane returned to the airport about half an hour after takeoff.

Los Angeles will be the designated home team for the second regular-season game in the South American country.

The Los Angeles Chargers will play their 2025 season opener in Brazil against an opponent to be announced this spring. The Chargers will be the first NFL franchise to have

Following the success of the 2024 inaugural game between the Eagles and the Packers, the league said the Chargers will play in São Paulo the first week of the 2025 regular season, on Sept.5.

Los Angeles Chargers set to kick off 2025 season in São Paulo, Brazil, as NFL expands its international presence.

Startling images show an airplane’s nose completely smashed in and smeared in blood from a bird strike. Latam flight LA3367 had just taken off from Rio de Janeiro heading to São Paulo in Brazil on Thursday when it was struck by birds,

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Paint them white: how Brazil is keeping trains on trackFew people suspect that when they board a train during a heatwave they may be risking their lives, as high temperatures can warp tracks and maybe even cause the train to derail.Employees of ViaMobilidade - a company that manages subway and train lines in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area - take the temperature of railway tracks in Osasco, Sao Paulo state.(Copyright: Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)Yet just last week, a train in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro derailed after the tracks expanded and buckled after being heated to a sizzling 71 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Fahrenheit) by the sun.No-one was injured in the incident but it highlighted the need for a solution to the search for a way to keep the country's tracks cool in increasingly sweltering temperatures.A railway company in Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city, claims to have found a solution: give the tracks a lick of white paint to reflect the sun's rays and prevent the steel from overheating."We have recorded temperatures of up to 60°C on the tracks, which can lead to deformations and be dangerous for trains," Alan Santana de Paula, maintenance manager for ViaMobilidade, a company that operates two commuter train lines in Sao Paulo, told AFP.ViaMobilidade transport 800,000 passengers a day.Last year, it counted 20 deformations on the tracks during periods of intense heat.Brazil, like the planet as a whole, experienced its hottest year on record in 2024, a situation scientists have linked to climate change.The experiment of painting rails in light colors has already been carried out elsewhere in the world, and opinions are divided on its effectiveness.Tests carried out by ViaMobilidade showed that white paint can help lower the temperature of the tracks by six degrees Celsius because white absorbs much less heat than dark colors."It doesn't completely eliminate the effect (of the heat) but it does diminish it," said Santana de Paula, who is heading a project to paint 35 kilometers (22 miles) of tracks by the end of February.To achieve its aim ViaMobilidade has come up with a novel device: a pick-up truck is fitted with sprayers at the back and drives the length of the track, dousing it with a water-based paint.Sao Paulo, like other parts of Brazil, suffered scorching temperatures earlier this month, with temperatures in Rio rising above 40 degrees Celsius for several days in a row.While Latin America's largest country has few long-distance rail links, people in big cities often use trains to move about.Santana said train traffic was being impacted by all kinds of severe weather, from heatwaves to torrential rain and gusting winds.Sao Paulo was in the past few weeks lashed by heavy storms which caused widespread flooding and power outages.© Copyright 2025 ETX Studio

One of Saturday’s popular early-morning street parties is Friends of the Jaguar, on a beach looking across the water at Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Mountain. Thousands of revelers are here, all decked out in leopard- and jaguar-print clothing.