Ryan Sparks, an 11-year-old student at Killeen ISD, has earned one of only 100 permanent spots in the Organization of ...

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Rio de Janeiro’s mayor handed over the key to the city to its Carnival monarch. RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro's mayor ...

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The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden will be open to visitors during Carnival. It will be open from 8am to 5pm, including Ash Wednesday. During the Carnival parades in the neighborhood, however, the ...

The selling prices in wholesale trade were 0.9% higher in January 2025 than in January 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was +0.1% in December 2024, and -0.6% in ...

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – A fire broke out Wednesday at a factory making costumes for Rio de Janeiro's Carnival, injuring 21 people in a blow to the famed extravaganza that attracts millions of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire Wednesday at a Rio de Janeiro factory that produces costumes for the city's iconic Carnival left 10 people hospitalized, Rio's state health department said ...

At least 20 people were injured, 10 critically, after a fire destroyed a clothing factory in the north of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. (AP/Diarlei Rodrigues) Health workers carry an injured woman ...

Health workers carry an injured woman after a fire destroyed a factory that produces Carnival costumes for the lower division samba schools in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire Wednesday at a Rio de Janeiro factory that produces costumes for the city’s iconic Carnival left 10 people hospitalized, Rio’s state health department said, casting a ...