RIO DE JANEIRO – Each New Year’s Eve, more than 2 million revelers – twice as many as typically fill Times Square – dress in white and pack Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to watch a 15-minute ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of worshippers clad in white robes spilled onto Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday to pay homage to Yemanja, the Afro-Brazilian sea goddess. Devotees waded into ...

TORONTO -- In the fluid darkness of the Arctic Ocean, there is believed to be a woman, or what was once a woman. Beneath the waves she waits, her fingers chopped off, her hair tangled with the animals ...

On the 2nd, dozens of Brazilian women dressed in white, carrying colorful flower baskets on their heads, are heading somewhere on Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Arpoador. It is not as if ...