Germany's carnival season bursts into life
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Thousands of people in costume took to the streets of western Germany as the annual carnival season started with a series of events that will go on until February.
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More than 1 million revelers, many scantily dressed, danced their way through the streets of Essen Saturday to sound of whistles blowing and techno music for the Love Parade's debut in its new home &#151; western Germany's industrial Ruhr region.
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About 1,400 people enjoyed authentic German food Saturday at the annual St. John Lutheran Church Oktoberfest celebration, where superbrats and German potato salad were crowd favorites.
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The Notting Hill Carnival began amid radiant sunlight in west London on Sunday with hundreds of thousands of people attending the children&#39;s carnival.
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Europe's biggest street party burst into life on Sunday as thousands of revelers blowing whistles and hooters packed west London for the Notting Hill Carnival.
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More than 300 events in the fields of culture, economics and science will be held throughout the nation in 2005 and 2006 in honor of the Year of Germany in Japan.
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Space ships, galleons and castles on wheels clogged Rio de Janeiro's streets on Sunday as the city prepared for Carnival's climax.
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Wearing nuns' veils, condom-shaped hats and all kinds of silly headgear, Brazilians partied in the beer-slicked streets of Rio de Janeiro on Friday as its Carnival started in earnest.
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More than 300 events in the fields of culture, economy and science are planned nationwide to celebrate the ``Germany in Japan 2005/2006'' project, which officially starts in April.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated Thursday the Frankfurt motor show, with what was billed as the world&#39;s biggest collecton of cars and parts placed squarely under the theme of environmental protection.
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The German language isn&#39;t normally thought of as being pretty, but that hasn&#39;t stopped the Goethe Institute from holding a competition for German&#39;s most beautiful world.
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As millions of revelers across Brazil prepare for Carnival festivities, the country's health ministry began on Sunday its yearly safe-sex campaign and the distribution of free condoms.
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German Gross Domestic Product grew unexpectedly strongly in the second half of last year.
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Germans pride themselves on putting on a  good party -- take the Munich beer festival or last year&#39;s  soccer World Cup -- and Berlin is preparing for another big  celebration next week.
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The Frankfurt, Germany Christmas market, with the Romer, Frankfurt's city hall, in the background.
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SALVADOR, Brazil  - Hordes of revelers poured on  to the streets of Brazilian cities in Carnival jamborees, led  by the country's culture minister and musician Gilberto Gil in  the northeastern city of Salvador.
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Parade fans camped along St. Charles Avenue, beer trucks lined up on Bourbon Street and revelers milled from bar to bar &#151; all signs that this city's Carnival season was rolling toward its annual Mardi Gras climax.