Student digs for gold with torch

An enterprising Brazilian college student has found a way to make money off one of the torches used to carry the Olympic flame toward Rio de Janeiro: get tourists to pose with it for pictures.

Reinaldo Maia, 27, bought the torch online, one of several offered for sale by people who took part in the relay or somehow acquired one during the flame's three-month journey across Brazil, where the Olympics open on Friday.

At 6,000 reais ($1,880), the price seemed exorbitant, but Maia wanted one as a souvenir of the first-ever Games in South America and he had a plan to recoup his investment.