Rio Carnival is one of the biggest, boldest and brightest events in the Brazilian calendar, and it’s taking the country’s ...

The Carmelitas block party is one of many annual parties in which Rio revellers take part in across the city’s neighbourhoods. It began earlier today with Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes handing ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against transgender ...

Tens of thousands of cheering fans pack the bleachers of Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome to see the first night of the top samba schools’ Carnival parades in Brazil.

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro - the crowds, the colors, the rhythms - hot, hot, hot, literally. As Julia Carneiro reports, temperatures have topped 111 degrees in some areas of the Brazilian megalopolis.

Watch live as tens of thousands of cheering fans pack the bleachers of Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome to see the top samba schools’ Carnival parades during the second day of the annual celebration in ...