Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first carnival revellers are on their way early in the morning to the celebrations to mark the start of the carnival season.

A series of recent terrorist attacks in Germany is casting a shadow over preparations for Carnival season, which begins in earnest this year at the end of February. "Security measures have been ...

Huge crowds of costumed revelers took to German streets on Thursday as the much-loved Carnival celebrations got underway, with the two Rhineland Carnival bastions of Cologne and Düsseldorf a focus of ...

Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to silence dissent. Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are ...

VOLKMARSEN, Germany (AP) — Police in Germany say several people have been injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Carnival procession. Northern Hesse police said a large number of police are at ...