Sipping a sugary cocktail as your toes disappear into the white sands of a balneário beach. A sunrise hike through the rainforest, finished off with a bowl of acai and washed down with a zingy lime ...

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 ...

Brazil is among the countries hit hardest by COVID-19, with over 4.6 million confirmed cases Rio de Janeiro has suspended its Carnival parade for the first time in over a century as coronavirus cases ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Madonna put on a free concert on Copacabana beach Saturday night, turning Rio de Janeiro's vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The city renown worldwide for its wild Carnival celebrations featuring near-naked samba dancers has finally gotten its first official nudist beach. Following a 20-year legal ...

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 Rio de Janeiro s world-famous Carnival officially began with streets parties and revelry Friday amid expectations the first such celebration since Jair Bolsonaro took office would ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — As Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations kicked off on Saturday, dozens of dogs dressed as superheroes, clowns and cartoon characters paraded alongside their owners in one of the ...

In February, I spent a week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with friends for the Rio Carnival festival. Seeing the floats and performers, and places my Brazilian grandpa told me about, felt magical. The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The world-famous Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro will be held in late April rather than the final weekend of February, as the number of coronavirus cases in Brazil spikes and ...