Rio Carnival is one of the biggest ... All the main samba competitions between rival dance schools and parades take place in the Sambadrome – a purpose-built parade area created for the Carnival ...

The Rio Carnival, a festival celebrated every year ... Fognini said "The energy is amazing. We are trying to dance and try something new, it's very nice." Watch all of The Rio Open with extended ...

"She can dance more samba than many Brazilians," says ... starting a new business - a carnival agency called Experience Carnival Rio to chaperone tourists to the Sambadrome and try to make sure ...

Performers wear elaborate, colourful costumes and dance to lively samba music. The world famous carnival sees partygoers lining the streets of Rio's Copacabana and Ipanema beaches to dance ...

feathers do indeed dance both down on the streets and high above Rio. During the fabled celebrations of Carnival, exotic costumes topped off by feathered headdresses and colorful boas flutter ...

US Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy delighted the crowd with a dance partner she had kept ... paying ticket holders after London 2012. The Rio public – the Cariocas – turned out in force creating a ...

Never mind solar power; soca power is Long Island’s next great renewable energy source. Feteness — workout classes set to the ...

Madonna put on a free concert on Copacabana beach Saturday night, turning Rio de Janeiro’s vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor ... famed for selling Carnival attire completely ...

This year's Rio Carnival has been won with a lurid attack on social ills and corruption in Brazil. The Beija Flor school showed the country with a huge rat in charge, while politicians were seen ...

Quincy Jones talks to Uncut about Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis and a remarkable life in music ...