Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – A line of tourists touch up their makeup before strutting across a rooftop in Rio de Janeiro's largest favela, posing for a drone as it zooms out to show dramatic ...

Set to an infectious beat, the video of the Rocinha favela has exploded on social media at a time when the city is drawing record tourist numbers. It has also created a sense of unease, with dozens of ...

A line of tourists touch up their makeup before strutting across a rooftop in Rio de Janeiro's largest favela, posing for a drone as it zooms out to show dramatic aerial views of the hillside ...

In Rio de Janeiro, family clans managing informal lotteries gain criminal influence through samba schools at the heart of ...

Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s most famous cities, is known for its dramatic landscape of mountains, lagoons, and coastline. Standing high above the city on Corcovado Mountain, the Christ the ...

The tourist area – known as Zona Sul (the South Zone) – is generally safe, although exercise caution when walking around at night, especially downtown (Centro), Santa Teresa and Lapa. In all areas of ...

People from across the world queue for hours to get a video taken on the famous ‘Gateway to Heaven’ rooftop in the heart of Brazil’s most iconic city It was day three of the British family’s holiday ...

Revellers were gathering at Rio's Copacabana beach on Tuesday to take part in Brazil’s main New Year’s Eve bash and welcome ...

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