During months of rehearsals, street bands and samba schools make space for pedestrians, creating islands of community spirit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marta Tucci/Travel + Leisure Sambadrome in Cidade Nova. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Carnival in Brazil—a dazzling, five-day ...

At least 20 people were injured, 10 critically, after a fire destroyed a clothing factory in the north of Rio de Janeiro on ...

From the carnival at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, this weekend is all about a global celebration of life observed in over 50 countries, often in the form of overindulgence ...

A reveller of the Beija Flor de Nilópolis samba school performs during the first night of Rio’s Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio, Brazil, on February 12, 2018. (Photo by… NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – To thunderous applause, Rio de Janeiro's mayor coronated King Momo on Friday, marking the beginning of the symbolic Carnival monarch's five-day reign over the revelry. “I officially ...

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As COVID-19 continues to ravage through Brazil, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro officially canceled Carnival, looking ahead to 2022, when the event can be celebrated with "all the intensity we deserve." ...

I'm part Brazilian but before this past February, I had never visited Brazil. That changed when I traveled to Rio De Janeiro to attend Carnival. My grandpa, Roberto, immigrated from Brazil to Los ...