Thousands expected for Carnival
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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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Thousands of music fans are expected at the twin Reading and Leeds Festivals this weekend.
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Police say at least half a million people are expected to attend the main day of the 43rd Notting Hill Carnival.
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As the Notting Hill Carnival enters its final day, police say they are pleased with how it has gone so far. About 250,000 people took to the streets on Sunday - more than double the first day last year - to celebrate 40 years of the west London event.
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Tens of thousands of people flocked  to Glastonbury for the world&#39;s biggest green field arts and  music festival on Thursday and with rain falling and more  forecast to come mud-lovers might not be disappointed.
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Thousands of sports fans are expected to line the streets of London as Britain&#39;s Olympic medalists parade through the city to celebrate their performance in the Athens Olympic Games
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AS the roar of their fans swept over the Port players in yesterday&#39;s Grand Final parade, the enormity of the occasion finally hit.
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Up to 5,000 people expected to take part in march.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Even the pouring rain couldn't put a damper on this country's famed carnival as tens of thousands of revelers took to the streets Saturday, dancing to the sound of samba drums on the second day of the annual celebration.
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Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Edinburgh to kick off the world's largest arts festival.
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The streets of west London came alive with the sound of the Caribbean at the Notting Hill Carnival, with more than a million revellers expected to turn out to celebrate the event's 40th year.
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A Carnival float with a pile of model dead bodies commemorating the Holocaust is causing unease before the lavish parades in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.
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When this year's samba parade kicks off in a hail of fireworks, glitter and plumage Sunday night, Max Lopes will have more riding on it than most.
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Sunny weather drew around 600,000 people to the Notting Hill Carnival this bank holiday weekend to enjoy the parades, dancers, costumes, sound systems and street performances. The theme of this year's event was Set All Free, commemorating the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade
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and as many as 15,000 tipped to head to Adelaide&#39;s biggest Melbourne Cup party at Morphettville Racecourse â-ere praying for the rain to stay away.
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Space ships, galleons and castles on wheels clogged Rio de Janeiro's streets on Sunday as the city prepared for Carnival's climax.
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Thousands of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection this weekend, campaigners warn.