Cities and villages worldwide awake to the rhythm of carnival celebrations as music, parades, street parties, magnificent floats and people in extravagant costumes take to the streets to party.

Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to silence dissent. Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are ...

Sipping a sugary cocktail as your toes disappear into the white sands of a balneário beach. A sunrise hike through the rainforest, finished off with a bowl of acai and washed down with a zingy lime ...

LONDON (AP) — Revellers are parading in colorful costumes through the streets of Notting Hill, in west London, for the annual carnival which started in 1966 and is one of the largest festival ...

The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority is inviting visitors to immerse themselves in “The Caribbean’s Greatest Summer Festival: Antigua Carnival” taking place from July 25 to August 5, 2025 in ...

The risk of a crowd crush at Notting Hill Carnival "made me frightened", London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said. Speaking at mayor's question time, he said Carnival had become a "victim of its own success" ...

Here’s how Catholicism works: Before you give up chocolate, meat, or reality TV for Lent, you get to have a big hedonistic carnival. Oh, you crazy papists! And one of the most famous carnivals in the ...

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LONDON (AP) — Revelers are parading in colorful costumes through the streets of Notting Hill, in west London, for the annual carnival which started in 1966 and is one of the largest festival ...