Four of Rio's top samba schools took center stage on the opening night of Carnival parades on Sunday. (AP video shot by Mario Lobão and Lucas Dumphreys) 2025 Oscars winners list: See who won at ...

An image of Jesus lays amid costume pieces at the "Unidos de Padre Miguel" samba school as members prepare for their Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Credit: AP/Silvia ...

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them ...

The Beija-Flor samba school has been crowned winner of Rio de Janeiro's celebrated carnival parade competition. Thousand ...

Tonight (Mar. 3), four additional samba schools will parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome ... They will continue the parades of Rio Carnival's Special Group. This year, for the first time ...

The Carnival is in full swing as music, glam and glee continue to dominate the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Samba school Unidos da Tijuca opened the festivities on Monday night with an afro ...

The parade, scheduled for Tuesday night, four days after Carnival officially kicks off, is the creation of Paraiso do Tuiuti, one of Rio's 12 top-flight samba schools competing in the iconic ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Carnival always breathes life into ... Padre Miguel will be the first samba school to parade on Sunday night. Their procession will tell the story of Iyá Nassô, the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Carnival always breathes life into ... Padre Miguel was the first samba school to parade on Sunday night. Their procession told the story of Iyá Nassô, the founder ...