Big crowd for Olympic parade
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THOUSANDS of spectators, including many flag-waving children, lined Sydney&#39;s George Street today to greet Australia&#39;s Olympians in their biggest welcome home parade.
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ATHENS As the sprinters walked out for the final of the men&#39;s 200 meters, the crowd in the packed Olympic Stadium began to boo.
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International agitators join mass protest
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The athletes have packed up. Olympic banners are coming down. But another challenge for the city of Athens is just beginning. It&#39;s a realization that&#39;s just starting to hit the Olympic hosts
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ATHENS -- In the first major public demonstration since the start of the Olympics, thousands of protesters clashed with police who stopped them from marching on the United States Embassy to protest the war in Iraq and Secretary of State Colin Powell's scheduled visit to Greece.
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The largest crowd of the season came to see the Expos play in Montreal for the final time Wednesday. There were tears and boos. Some lobbed golf balls and bottles onto the field at Olympic Stadium in protest.
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Tens of thousands of Orangemen and supporters are  to attend Northern Ireland's 12 July parades.
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While the world&#39;s best athletes fight the noble Olympic battle in stadiums and pools, their fans storm the streets of Athens, turning the Greek capital into a huge international party every night.
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Gold medal heroes Kelly Holmes and Matthew Pinsent led Great Britain&#39;s Olympic and Paralympic athletes on a celebratory party through the streets of London yesterday.
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The 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece, have been attracting a growing worldwide audience since they began August 13. Particularly attentive have been Greek-Americans.
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The 40th Notting Hill Carnival parade in west London got off to a good start, police say - despite a series of reported arrests. The colourful carnival attracted around 250,000 people on Sunday and more than a million are expected overall.
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The main day of the Notting Hill Carnival is under way with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather in the streets of west London for the Notting Hill Carnival.
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THE POLITICAL CRISIS in Ukraine has produced crowds that now number over a million people here in the streets of the capital (Kiev's total population is only 2.6 million) and demonstrations in the thousands by ...
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If the welcome home party was grand, the send-off was equally spectacular as Athens bid a fabulous farewell to the world&#39;s 10,500-odd sportspersons from a record 202 countries that assembled in Athens for the Olympic Games which concluded on Sunday night.
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Thousands of onlookers cheered huge columns of Buddhist monks today in the largest street protests in two decades against Myanmarâs military rulers.
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British Olympians and Paralympians will take part in a parade through London on 18 October.