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The mayor of Rio de Janeiro has issued a decree to regulate the city’s 30 miles of coastline. Many residents fear it will change Rio’s beach culture as they know it.

Rio Del Mar State Beach in Aptos is expected to reopen at 11 a.m. Thursday, after being closed off for 48 hours.

Rio de Janeiro is a city of contrasts — the rich and the poor, urban development and nature, a dream and a nightmare, old and new. There’s a lot to like and dislike.

Plan to build Christ statue ‘bigger than Rio’s’ prompts outcry in Spanish townCorazon de Jesus Boadilla ...

If the project is completed, the statue will stand taller than Rio De Janeiro ’s Christ the Redeemer, which is 30m excluding the pedestal it sits on.

Attorneys say the statue is in storage at an undisclosed location. For 124 years, the towering bronze likeness of John C. Calhoun watched over downtown Charleston.