RIO DE JANEIRO – The Beija-Flor samba group has been declared the champion of Rio de Janeiro's hotly contested Carnival parade competition. The group stoked controversy by staging a presentation ...

Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Carnival in Brazil—a dazzling, five-day extravaganza of parades, music, and street parties.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The samba school Portela was picked Wednesday as the winner of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parade competition, putting an end to a 33-year drought for the group known as one of the ...

Bangay will become the first LGBTQ-majority group to take part in the Rio carnival's samba parade - Copyright AFP/File Vasiliy BATANOV Bangay will become the first ...

Rio was gearing up Monday for the second and final night of its celebrated carnival, with the stage set for an event that will blend huge party with political protest. More than 70,000 people were ...

A drag queen is headlining the parade of one of Rio de Janeiro's most storied samba schools Monday night as Carnival celebrations across the country continue the tradition of ridiculing cultural icons ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anitta has become a pop music sensation in her native Brazil and abroad, but Monday she will have her first shot to prove herself on the country's biggest stage: the Sambadrome.

Rio de Janeiro is a city where the Samba school championship is coveted as jealously as a major soccer cup and when Beija-Flor (Portuguese for humming bird) hits Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on Sunday ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Beija-Flor samba group was declared the champion of Rio de Janeiro’s hotly contested Carnival parade competition Wednesday. The group stoked controversy by staging a ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...