Just in time for carnival, Assouline's shiny new tome on Rio de Janeiro celebrates the spirit of the Marvelous City.

HotéisRIO, the Cidade Maravilhosa's hotel owners' association, forecast that hotel occupancy during this year's Carnival ...

The world’s biggest party is back as Carnival celebrations return to Brazil. The Associated Press’ David Biller talks through ...

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

Since Friday afternoon, hundreds of street parties have been roving through Rio's streets, each with its own aesthetic, theme ...

The streets of Rio de Janeiro come alive with parties, samba and dazzling costumes as one of the world’s biggest carnivals ...

For almost two decades, hundreds of dogs in the upscale Barra da Tijuca region in Rio de Janeiro have wagged their tails to ...

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 ...

Rio de Janeiro's massive Sambadrome erupted in noisy celebrations Sunday as the news broke that Brazil won its first Oscar, ...

One of Saturday’s popular early-morning street parties is Friends of the Jaguar, on a beach looking across the water at Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Mountain. Thousands of revelers are here, all decked ...

As Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations kicked off on Saturday, dozens of dogs dressed as superheroes, clowns and cartoon ...

Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival officially kicked off on Friday, with the handing over of the keys to the city to King Momo, the supreme ruler of Brazil’s most iconic festival, who has decreed five ...