RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With their formations of spandex-clad samba dancers, fruit-topped drummers in Carmen Miranda headgear and legions of ladies swathed in reams of lace, the Petizes da Penha samba ...

Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival kicked off on Friday with street parties, colourful costumes, music and samba dancing. Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival kicked off on Friday with street ...

Cheerful: A young dancer shows off her samba flair to spectators at the Academicos do Grande Rio Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style originating ...

Sparkle, feathers and samba dance moves that have been perfected over the last two years as the Rio Carnival was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, marked the return of the much-anticipated ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Millions of people in costumes — or little of anything — partied in street carnivals across Brazil on Sunday ahead of the elite samba school dance-off in Rio de Janeiro. The Carnival ...

U.S. citizen Paul Leaury, right, and an unidentified fellow foreign member of the Mangueira samba school, dance during a carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 12, ...

With the mercury rising to 17 degrees, March 8 was unusually warm for the time of year in Tokyo. Spring was in the air. At Tokyo Dome that evening, though, it was distinctly subtropical as 20,000 ...