Hundreds of thousands of revelers took to the streets across Germany on Monday to celebrate Carnival dressed up in colorful costumes, amid an abundance of candy, flowers and alcohol. Many of the ...

Germany's Carnival festivities have begun, drawing enthusiastic crowds to cities like Cologne and Düsseldorf. In light of recent incidents at public gatherings, enhanced security protocols have ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany's Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne that linked Jesus with the church abuse scandal.

The Rhineland street carnival reaches its climax with the Rose Monday parades. The motto of the 2025 Cologne Carnival season is "FasteLOVEnd - Wenn Draeum widder bloehe". Oliver Berg/dpa 35,542 ...

COLOGNE, Germany — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off ...

In a letter they said the image, “which cannot be surpassed in terms of embarrassment and tastelessness, should not belittle the Cologne Shrove Monday procession and carnival as a whole ...

Ahead of Carnival celebrations kicking off in Germany on Thursday, the Islamic State militant group called for attacks targeting revellers in Cologne. Islamists suspected of belonging to so-called ...

Hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers have taken over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off their colorful costumes.

COLOGNE, Germany — Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne that linked Jesus with the church abuse scandal.

COLOGNE, Germany — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off ...

Bakeries sell vast quantities of jelly donuts during carnival — the so-called fifth ... recent attacks that have scared many in Germany, Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker called on the revelers ...