Shakira became the latest artist to draw an audience of millions to Brazil’s Copacabana Beach with a hits-filled free concert ...

Two million people packed Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for a free concert by Shakira, the biggest show of the Colombian ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil’s sun-soaked metropolis, is bursting with foreign visitors. Their numbers rose to 2.1m in 2025, up by 45% compared with the previous year. To them, Rio is an exotic fantasy, all ...

A fire broke out Wednesday morning at Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park velodrome, prompting a major emergency response involving about 80 firefighters and 20 vehicles, authorities said. Rio state ...

“Rio de Janeiro is a city that enchants you, seduces you, and never lets you go.” — Rubem Braga The Brazilian journalist and author remembered a childhood in which he dreamily pored over postcards ...

festival, according to the city’s mayor, Eduardo Cavaliere, following allegations that a member of her security team mistreated Italian soccer star Jorginho Frello’s 11-year-old stepdaughter. At least ...

Brazilian airline GOL announced new nonstop flights between Orlando and Rio de Janeiro. The new route will operate four times per week on a larger Airbus A330 aircraft. Brazil is Orlando's ...

The National Football League today announced the Dallas Cowboys will be one of the participating teams for the 2026 NFL Rio game to be played at the Maracanã Stadium. The game in Rio will be part of ...

There are late bloomers, and then there’s talipot palms. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a crop of imported palms is flowering for the first and only time after being planted by renowned Brazilian ...

“The parades at the Sambadrome are the central event of Carnival. For four nights, Rio’s top samba schools, of which there are more than 100, perform to themes of their choosing—this past year, many ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people, authorities said Thursday morning. The operation began ...

eople stand next to the bodies with a sign that reads "Claudio Castro (Rio de Janeiro governor) assassin and terrorist" in the Penha neighborhood a day after a massive anti-gang police operation took ...