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Confeitaria Colombo opened in 1894 and fitted itself out like a Parisian tea room transplanted to the tropics - Belgian mirrors, Italian marble, a jacaranda counter and a stained-glass skylight over the hall. It became the meeting room of Rio's belle epoque and is now listed as heritage.

Bar Brahma opened in 1948 at the corner of São João and Ipiranga, the crossing Caetano Veloso later sang about, and became the bar where São Paulo's journalists, politicians and musicians drank in the same room. It closed once, reopened under another name, failed, and came back as Bar Brahma again.

Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

Construction began on the Senna Tower, a supertall residential skyscraper in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil designed to become the tallest residential building on Earth.

The 6.7 km first section links Congonhas Airport with Morumbi on suburban rail Line 9 through seven stations, twelve years behind the 2014 World Cup deadline it was first built for. Trains initially run only between 10.00 and 15.00 at headways of seven to fourteen minutes, with full service expected from October 2026.

Six stations opened along a 5.2 km stretch between João Paulo I and Perdizes, among them Água Branca, which at 47.8 metres is the deepest metro station in South America. Trains run on weekdays from 10.00 to 15.00 and are free for now; the finished line is to run 15.3 km with 15 stations from Brasilândia to São Joaquim.

Brazil's presidential election is scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2026. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket's winner market, which includes any second round, had Flavio Bolsonaro at 58% and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at 42%; a runoff, if no one clears 50%, falls on October 25.

The 10th FIFA Women's World Cup is the first held in South America, played across eight stadiums in eight Brazilian cities including the Maracanã. Spain are the defending champions, and it is the last edition contested by 32 teams before the expansion to 48 in 2031.

Interlagos runs anticlockwise over a hillside, is short enough to bunch the field, and has decided more championships late than anywhere else.

Greatest eclipse falls at 15:07:46 UT on 2028-01-26, where the annular phase lasts 10 minutes 27 seconds on a path 323.0 km wide; the longest annularity anywhere on the track is 10m30.6s. The path of annularity crosses Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain and Portugal, and a partial eclipse is visible from eastern North America, C. & South America, western Europe and northwestern Africa.

Aena is doubling the boarding and arrivals area to 105,000 square metres and replacing the airport's 12 airbridges with 19, so that 70 per cent of boardings are direct to the aircraft. A new 215,000-square-metre apron takes commercial aircraft stands from 30 to 37 and lifts capacity to 29.5 million passengers a year; work began in 2024.

The 8.3 km eastern extension adds eight stations from Vila Prudente out to Penha and will make Line 2-Green the network's longest at 23 km. The first four stations, Orfanato, Santa Clara, Anália Franco and Vila Formosa, are due in 2027, and the São Paulo state government puts the whole extension at R$15 billion.