Tired from long months of intense rehearsals. Excited because Rio de Janeiro’s legendary carnival is about to start.

Raquel Poti performs on stilts during the "Ceu na Terra" or Heaven on Earth pre-Carnival street party, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. Standing 9 feet tall on her wooden stilts ...

The Rio Carnival street party where dogs parade as superheroes and cartoon characters A dog wears a hat at the “Blocao” dog carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Rio de Janeiro: Covered in golden glitter, Brazilian domestic worker Vera Lucia da Silva is bursting to be back parading through Rio de Janeiro in a carnival street party, after a three-year ...

The Rio Carnival street party where dogs parade as superheroes and cartoon characters A dog wears a hat at the "Blocao" dog carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Watch again people gathered at Leme Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday (10 February) for the Bloco street party for the Brazil Carnival.

It's your first trip to Brazil and you’re already faced with a tough choice: Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo? Between golden ...

Gisele Bündchen shared clips from her night at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations on Instagram. The 42-year-old supermodel was in Brazil enjoying the world-famous festival between Ash ...

Watch live as revelers in Rio de Janeiro take to the streets in a pre-Carnival party to warm up their engines on Saturday, 27 January.

As Rio de Janeiro kicks off its Carnival, about 100 dogs are barking and wagging their tails to the tune of samba music as they parade in front of pet lovers in a canine costume competition.

Millions of carnival-goers are filling Rio de Janeiro's streets with colour and dancing in Brazil.

A pile of film negatives started a collector on an obsession to collect old photos that offer a history of Rio de Janeiro and the event that has made it world famous — carnival.