RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The wall of Olga Valles’ office is a vast tableau of famous faces past and present: Barack Obama smiles warmly, while Yasser Arafat poses in his trademark black-and-white ...

Here’s how Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Trinidad and Tobago, New Orleans, and Quebec City mark the pre-Lenten season Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent In 18th-century Venice, Carnival masks created ...