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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro couldn’t resume regular life after the Carnival festivities came to a close until “the count” of scores from the parade competition was complete and a victor ...

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, ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — Nothing is sacred in Las Vegas, not even a serenade by the beloved Ed Sheeran, who played the main stage Friday night at the Rock in Rio festival. His early moments on stage ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glitter is classified as a primary microplastic, intentionally produced at a tiny scale of usually less than 5mm. Particles consist of a thin layer of plastic—typically Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET ...

The Rio International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Latin America, wrapped this Sunday Oct. 12 after a record-breaking edition for Brazilian films and a strong international presence, ...

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 ...

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 ...