Rio de Janeiro’s samba schools usually spend the year furiously sewing costumes for the city’s blowout Carnival celebration...

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Brazil's Bolsonaro says Brazil will only accept international aid for Amazon if Macron apologizes...

Police say four children aged 10 to 14 packed fishing rods in a parent's SUV, left a farewell note then drove 600 miles down the Australian east coast before they were stopped the next day...

Brazil's national museum says it has recovered 200 pieces from its Egypt collection after a devastating fire in September 2018...

Thailand's newly crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn made a spectacular public appearance in front of his countrymen, carried atop a golden palanquin by soldiers in ancient fighting uniforms in a process...

The administration of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro plans to auction seven oil fields despite contrary advice from analysts of Brazil's main environmental body...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has aroused outrage by sharing a video on Twitter that shows one man urinating on the head of another man during a Carnival party...

The Brazilian samba school that paid tribute to a slain city councilwoman has won this year's Carnival parade contest in Rio de Janeiro...

Samba competition is getting political in Brazil, with one of Rio's top samba schools and other groups paying tribute to Marielle Franco, an activist for gays and Afro-Brazilian rights who was slain a...