The frantic preparations for Carnival, driven by lucrative private investments, underly the dangerous working conditions at ...

Rio de Janeiro’s mayor handed over the key to the city to its Carnival monarch on Friday, opening King Momo’s five-day reign ...

Patients from the Nise da Silveira Mental Health Institute joined the ‘Suburban Madness’ street party in Rio de Janeiro, ...

While samba school parades dominate international attention, Rio de Janeiro’s “blocos” — street parades central to the city’s ...

There were at least 40 cases last year in which thieves drugged travelers in their hotel rooms so they could steal their ...

The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden will be open to visitors during Carnival. It will be open from 8am to 5pm, including Ash Wednesday. During the Carnival parades in the neighborhood, however, the ...

The selling prices in wholesale trade were 0.9% higher in January 2025 than in January 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was +0.1% in December 2024, and -0.6% in ...

An explosion of colour and flamboyant dancing, Rio de Janeiro Carnival is not to be missed in Brazil. But the performing in the city's famed festivities could be in jeopardy for some samba schools.

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – A fire broke out Wednesday at a factory making costumes for Rio de Janeiro's Carnival, injuring 21 people in a blow to the famed extravaganza that attracts millions of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire Wednesday at a Rio de Janeiro factory that produces costumes for the city's iconic Carnival left 10 people hospitalized, Rio's state health department said ...

At least 20 people were injured, 10 critically, after a fire destroyed a clothing factory in the north of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. (AP/Diarlei Rodrigues) Health workers carry an injured woman ...