Carnival is one of the most popular party seasons in Brazil. Annually, the country attracts millions of people from all over the world to enjoy the festivities. Tourists flock to Rio de Janeiro to ...

A young performer stands with her troupe during the "Tambores de Olokun" street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Thousands have started attending the popular street parties ...

Rio Carnival is one of the biggest, boldest and brightest events in the Brazilian calendar, and it’s taking the country’s tourism capital by storm next week. The sound of samba rings, raucous parties ...

Sexy costumes, bands, festivities, wild parades - and murky water. As the official Carnival celebrations kick off in the Brazilian city of Rio Saturday, potable water has become a valuable commodity, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — As Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations kicked off on Saturday, dozens of dogs dressed as superheroes, clowns and cartoon characters paraded alongside their owners in one of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Covered in confetti and to the sound of drums, Rio's mayor handed the key to the city to the mythical figure who reigns over the chaos of Carnival, officially opening this seaside ...

With an initial investment of $75 million, Rock in Rio estimates the festival will create 9,000 jobs in the U.S., boost hotel occupancy and increase Brazilian tourism to Las Vegas, thanks to the Rock ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — Rock in Rio USA, the new-to-America music festival that wrapped Saturday after two often-incoherent weekends here, needs to figure out some things if it wants to compete in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Young men speeding down the road on scooters, armed with machine guns, went fairly unnoticed by the audience piling into the Canita Block community center in Complexo do Alemao ...

For more than a year, organizers promised that the inaugural U.S. edition of the Brazilian-born Rock in Rio would be unlike anything the American public had seen. Equal parts concert, amusement park ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes on Wednesday ceremonially handed control of the city to King Momo, a ritual representing the upheaval of the status quo — but it remains to be ...

Roberto Medina thinks big. He is the kind of Frank Sinatra fan who arranges for his idol to perform the biggest concert of his career, in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, in front of 100,000 fans. For ...