Street dancers open Rio's crazy carnival
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To the sound of blasting samba, men dressed as nuns swilled beer and danced down the cobblestoned streets of a Rio hillside Friday night to kick off five days of uninhibited carnival madness.
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The XII Paralympics begins in Athens, after a spectacular opening ceremony.
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Working around bats, bugs and dripping silver balloons, dancers overtake New York CityÂs public places.
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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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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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A samba singer's war cry pierces the tropical night, rockets roar, drums roll and 4,000 troupe members in glittering costumes swing into the spotlights of the Sambodrome parade avenue.
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ATHENS - Fireworks exploded, dancers streamed around a giant tree, and the crowd roared &#39;Hellas, Hellas&#39; as the 12th Paralympic Games opened with a party of thudding drums, lights and flowing costumes on Friday.
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Tens of thousands of revelers jammed the streets of Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the city's world-renowned carnival, putting aside the violence that has cast a shadow over the city in recent weeks.
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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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Hundreds of thousands of revelers took to the streets Monday for the climax of the Notting Hill Carnival, a loud, proud and raucous celebration of Caribbean cultures.
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A leader of a top samba troupe was shot dead in Rio de Janeiro just days before its famed Carnival celebrations and heavily armed police occupied a slum on Wednesday after clashes with drug traffickers killed six people.
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Hundreds of police and troops from Brazil's elite security force raided a Rio de Janeiro slum on Thursday, even searching children in an operation against gangs one month before the Pan American Games start in the city.
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By Fernanda Ezabella SALVADOR, Brazil  - Hordes of revelers poured onto the streets of Brazilian cities in Carnival jamborees, ledby the country's culture minister and musician Gilberto Gil inthe northeastern city of Salvador.
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LONDON: London&#39;s colourful Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world&#39;s biggest street parties, has got off to a relatively peaceful start with eight arrests for minor offences yesterday.
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Thousands of people in costume took to the streets of western Germany on Thursday as the annual carnival season started with a series of events that will go on until February.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Police killed at least 18 suspected drug traffickers in a massive operation yesterday to serve arrest warrants and seize drugs and arms in a vast Rio de Janeiro shantytown, a state security official said.
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Revelers dressed as cavemen, Arab dancers, pirates and a host of other characters took over downtown Rio de Janeiro's main avenue on Saturday as the world's biggest street party lurched into full swing.