Brazil’s central bank has lowered its forecast for economic growth to less than half of last year’s, partly blaming the slowing global economy.

As soon as they learned that their country was to host the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the Colombian officials set about organising what they hoped would be the best world youth tournament in history.

Forty percent of Brazil was plunged into darkness from power outages this week.  Eerie pictures of cities in the dark dominated the Internet.