ONE victim was visiting Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue. Another hopped into an Uber for a night out in the seaside city. Both ended up shot dead after GPS navigation apps suddenly ...

Rio de Janeiro is generally not a city that people have at the top of their travel bucket list. It does have a reputation as ...

Just a few minutes from the school parades in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, there’s a huge workforce stitching, fixing, sweeping up feathers and sequins, and assembling floats and instruments.

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

But despite this dominance, sertanejo has little export potential. Few artists care about going global, says Mr Morel. That ...

Carnival in the Brazilian city has two sides: the street parties, known as blocos, and the parades at the legendary ...

The director of ‘I’m Still Here,’ heir to the founder of the largest bank in Brazil, boasts a distinguished career, numerous ...

Subtle hand signs coordinate the hundreds of pounding drummers in each of Rio de Janeiro’s glitzy Carnival parades.

Vendors are a fixture at Rio’s Carnival street parties. They scour Instagram pages for times and locations, coordinate on ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Group has scrapped plans to raise as much as $5 billion in a share sale following pushback from investors, people with knowledge of the matter said. Most Read from ...