Thousands Celebrate In Streets of Santiago On Learning of Death
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 10 -- Thousands of jubilant Chileans streamed into the streets of Santiago after hearing that their former president, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, had died Sunday. Many danced and popped open champagne, while caravans of cars with horns blaring toured the capital for hours.
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Filled with nostalgia and perhaps a little bitterness, a few thousand people gathered Wednesday on the capital's central square to mark the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, an event that many in ...Comment
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Fidel Castro's 80th birthday celebration kicked off on Tuesday with the ailing Cuban leader nowhere in sight but hundreds of admirers from around the world were on hand to pay homage.
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Parisians celebrated Wednesday in music and dance for the 60th anniversary of Paris&#39; liberation from Nazi occupation. Hundreds of thousands people watched the parades of two French
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Thousands of people join in with carnival celebrations in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Many of the country's grandest fiestas align with major celebrations within the Roman Catholic Church, but residents celebrate indigenous gods and beliefs, too.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile celebrated its first  Olympic gold medal with tears of joy, dancing in the streets  and an orgy of honking horns on Saturday, after tennis heroes  Nicolas Massu and Fernando Gonzalez won the men's doubles in  Athens.
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web sites) Day. We remember the people who have succumbed to this devastating disease, celebrate the great advances
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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Hundreds of mourners marched in a funeral procession Wednesday for two teenage victims of Argentina&#39;s worst school shooting on record, a day after a fellow student&#39;s classroom rampage.
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Ceremonies that drew thousands of people into the streets culminated with a solemn tribute to the heroes of the liberation at Paris City Hall - followed by a jubilant outdoor ball.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hundreds of Chileans were expected to file past the body of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, a day after the former dictator, whose 17-year rule polarized his South American homeland, died at the age of 91.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe&#39;s largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - The body of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose government killed thousands during his 17-year-rule, was taken to a military college in the capital Santiago on Monday after his death sparked violence, tears and celebration.
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LODZ, Poland  - Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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A funeral is to be held for Chile's former military leader, Augusto Pinochet, in the capital, Santiago.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary ...