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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The world's largest ferris wheel, the Singapore Flyer, made its first spin on Monday, offering passengers a bird's eye view of the city-state as well as parts of neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.
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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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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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COLOGNE, Germany  - GOOOOOOAL!!! Soenke Wortmann's soccer documentary "Germany. A Summer Fairytale" makes most Germans reach for their jersey and face paint.
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Beer-cellars, ale-houses, pubs, taverns and other watering-holes kicked off the 171st Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany, where millions of visitors are expected to visit the annual booze-fest.
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MUNICH, Germany  - International squads of beer  drinkers, leather-clad Bavarians and devotees of excess young  and old converged in Munich on Saturday for the start of the  planet's biggest beer festival, the Oktoberfest.
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The show in Kassel, Germany, sustains its reputation for being an idiosyncratic, concept-driven affair.
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World cup visitors help German hotels and caterers see a rise in sales over the summer.
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Carnival continues to navigate near-term volatility in fuel costs.
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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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After months in a slump, Germans have found a fresh taste for shopping, with Christmas giving the eurozone's biggest economy a boost, a survey by the GfK institute showed Thursday.
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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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Spiegelworld is presenting among its acts a family-unfriendly one-ring circus featuring two separate shows that translate European decadence into a raunchy American aesthetic.
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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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HAMBURG, Germany  - Sex may sell, but selling sex can be expensive.
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With the launch of the Costa Magica on Nov. 6 came a flurry of announcements from the cruise line and Carnival Corporation underlining the growing strength of the European cruise market and the company s ...