Lent starts on Valentine’s Day this year, but Rio de Janeiro is not going to let the small matter of religious observation interrupt the world’s biggest party. Before the fasting come the festivities ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – At rehearsal for the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, a dancer poses for photos with admiring onlookers while wearing the bright yellow uniform and sky-high heels of the school’s elite ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Carnival, long a symbol of youth, beauty and sex, added a mature twist early Tuesday by giving two women in their 40s a chance to dance nearly nude at the head of their samba ...

Performers from the Salgueiro samba school parade during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday. The Associated Press Carnival dancers have taken the biggest ...

The Rio Carnival, a festival celebrated every year before Lent, is considered the biggest carnival in the world. When players happen to be competing in the Rio Open at the same time, they just have to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Dancers in dazzling costumes sway to the rhythm of the music as samba bands rehearse in front of cheering crowds in the city's Sambadrome before the start of the world-famous Rio ...

THEY are the gorgeous, glittering Samba dancers who steal the show at the greatest party on the planet. The queens and muses who light up the jaw-dropping, heart-pounding Rio Carnival are once again ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Carnival has always been a raucous affair and beauty queen Angela Bismarchi took it another step further on Monday night when her only item of clothing, a small ...

Brazilians roundly criticized a samba school’s presentation at a Carnival parade last night, which featured dancers performing in blackface. The performance from Acadêmicos do Salgueiro, a popular ...

In this Jan. 27, 2020 photo, performers wait next to a image of Saint Sebastian, patron saint of the Rio de Janeiro, for the start of the rehearsal at the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, in Rio de ...