Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - When she sways to the sensual beat of samba, Megumi Kudo also heals the wounds in her mother's heart from a huge earthquake that shattered their home city in Japan 20 years ago.

Maria Rodrigues, a Tokyo-based costume maker, was one of several Brazilian performers who joined Tokyo's Asakusa Samba Carnival this year, with the event returning in all its glory after a scaled-back ...

Carnival is upon as and in Rio de Janeiro people have been coming from around the world to perfect their samba skills ahead of this year's parade. According to instructors at Rio's sambadrome, ...