AP PHOTOS: Fat Tuesday celebrated around the world
From sequin-drenched samba parades in Rio de Janeiro to cascades of Mardi Gras beads on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, revelers gathered to dance ...
Rio de Janeiro's samba schools vie for title
Carnival revelers danced until dawn on Tuesday as Rio de Janeiro's samba schools held their annual sequin-drenched parade competitions at the city's ...
Carnival float catches fire, killing 4 in Brazil
A fire on a Carnival float has killed four people and injured five in the Brazilian port city of Santos. A fire department official says the float ...
Rio teacher out to prove 'gringos' can samba, too
With their gyrating hips and feet that move so fast they dissolve into a blur, samba instructor Carla Campos' students are barely distinguishable from ...
New Orleans revelers face a soggy end to Carnival
Carnival parades managed to roll Sunday in New Orleans despite bad weather, but revelers might not be so lucky on Monday. Parades planned for Fat ...
Hundreds toil for months for Rio's Carnival parade
There's nothing glamorous about the industrial warehouse reverberating with the zap of soldering metal, the clatter of hammers and an earsplitting ...
Rio's samba dancers stars by night, workers by day
It's a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company's drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles.
Brazil's Carnival moves beyond samba
The crowd gathering Saturday was a typical Rio Carnival mix: a sprinkling of superheroes, girls in cute bunny outfits, zombies and princesses, a group ...
As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape
As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's streets for Carnival's ...
Argentine music troupes launch carnival parades
Argentina's carnival celebrations may not be as well-known as the ones in neighboring Uruguay and Brazil, but residents of the nation's capital are ...
Bolivia mining town erects huge statue of Virgin
The Carnival celebrations in this Andean mining city already rival Brazil's Rio de Janeiro for color and culture, if not for size. Now Oruro has ...
Haiti 'snake artist' uses Carnival to get by
Saintilus Resilus' day job this time of year is walking the streets of Haiti's capital with snakes on his head. He sees himself as something of a ...
Rebellious Macedonian village stages carnival
The tiny Macedonian town of Vevcani boasts its own constitution, its own currency and a passport emblazoned with a golden coat of arms. They are a ...
With Olympics in mind, Rio's love hotels clean up
One worker strips mirrored paneling off the ceiling, as another pries up the fiberglass shell of a whirlpool bath. A third man takes a sledgehammer ...
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