During months of rehearsals, street bands and samba schools make space for pedestrians, creating islands of community spirit ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company’s drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles. But when night falls, she dazzles ...

Samba dancers wearing bodypaint, feathers, glitter- and not a lot else - have taken to the streets of Sao Paulo for the opening of the country's wild carnival festivities. Dancers from local samba ...

While nights are getting cooler and days are getting shorter, there are still a few ways to extend that summer feeling. Letting yourself get carried away by the hot melodies of a 15-piece samba band ...