http://www.mail.com/subjects/1063562-parades.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1063562-parades.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2155036-pope-blesses-hundreds-harley-davidsons.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather. Thundering Harley engines nearly drowned out the Latin recitation of the "Our Father" prayer that accompanied Francis as he greeted... Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:26:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2155036-pope-blesses-hundreds-harley-davidsons.html 2013-06-16T15:26:08Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2153766-parade-marks-queen-elizabeth-iis-birthday.html LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her birthday Saturday with traditional pomp and circumstance, followed by a visit to her husband in the hospital. More than 1,000 soldiers, horses and musicians took part in the parade known as "Trooping the Color," an annual ceremony marking the queen's official birthday. With Prince Philip unable to attend the... Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:33:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2153766-parade-marks-queen-elizabeth-iis-birthday.html 2013-06-15T14:33:27Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2136270-israels-tel-aviv-holds-annual-gay-pride-parade.html TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Drag queens, politicians, grandmothers and shirtless men descended on Tel Aviv in their thousands Friday to party in the annual gay pride parade, the 15th march to be held in an Israeli city that has emerged as one of the world's most gay-friendly. Loud dance music beat along the parade's route, with rainbows painted on participant... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:01:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2136270-israels-tel-aviv-holds-annual-gay-pride-parade.html 2013-06-07T13:01:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2103692-float-driver-train-crash.html LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators the oncoming train appeared to be stationary, and that he didn't notice anything was wrong until he saw people jumping from the float, according to documents released Wednesday. Dale Hayden has never spoken publicly a... Thu, 23 May 2013 02:00:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2103692-float-driver-train-crash.html 2013-05-23T02:00:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2095892-official-va-driver-medical-condition.html DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday. Officials did not have a formal confirmation or any specifics on the condition, but based on the accounts of authori... Sun, 19 May 2013 23:07:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2095892-official-va-driver-medical-condition.html 2013-05-19T23:07:08Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2092868-gay-pride-rally-georgia-derailed.html TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of anti-gay protesters, including Orthodox priests, occupied a central street in Georgia's capital Friday, with some threatening to lash with stinging nettles any participant in a gay pride parade which was to take place there. Police in Tbilisi guarded several dozen gay activists and bused them out of the city center sho... Fri, 17 May 2013 13:56:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2092868-gay-pride-rally-georgia-derailed.html 2013-05-17T13:56:13Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2082696-man-u-fans-pack-streets-to-honor-champs-ferguson.html MANCHESTER, England (AP) — In front of tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting fans, Manchester United players and retiring manager Alex Ferguson paraded the Premier League trophy through packed city streets on a second day of jubilant celebrations for the English champions. Fans clambered dangerously up storefronts, scaffolding, statues, bus stands... Mon, 13 May 2013 20:31:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2082696-man-u-fans-pack-streets-to-honor-champs-ferguson.html 2013-05-13T20:31:16Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2064140-ap-photos-story-jews-red-army.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Once a year, Israel's Jewish war veterans don suit jackets and uniforms dripping in Red Army medals, the shiny bronzes and silvers pinned to their chests in tight rows like armor. About 500,000 Jews served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II. Most of those still alive today — about 7,000 — are said to live in Israel. Every year on ... Sun, 05 May 2013 18:54:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2064140-ap-photos-story-jews-red-army.html 2013-05-05T18:54:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2048264-wikileaks-suspect-wont-sf-pride-parade-marshal.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Racing to stanch a flow of criticism, the president of San Francisco's annual gay pride celebration said Friday that the U.S. Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website will not be an honorary grand marshal after all. SF Pride Board President Lisa Williams said in a statement that an employee of th... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:48:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2048264-wikileaks-suspect-wont-sf-pride-parade-marshal.html 2013-04-27T05:48:16Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2022846-bowler-hatted-impersonators-mark-chaplin-birthday.html ADIPUR, India (AP) — Canes in hand and bowler hats atop their heads, Charlie Chaplin impersonators tramped through the streets of a small port town in western India to celebrate the birthday of the Hollywood silent-film legend. Chaplin has an odd resonance in this industrial town. Surrounded by salt flats bordering the Thar desert, Adipur's only claim to ... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:05:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2022846-bowler-hatted-impersonators-mark-chaplin-birthday.html 2013-04-17T01:05:38Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1960542-dublin-tourists-lead-icy-st-patricks-day-parade.html DUBLIN (AP) — Never mind the fickle Irish weather. A chilly, damp Dublin celebrated St. Patrick's Day with artistic flair anyway Sunday as the focal point for a weekend of Irish celebrations worldwide. More than 250,000 revelers braved the occasionally snowy, sleety skies to line the streets for the traditional holiday parade, a 3-kilometer (2-mile) jaunt... Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:48:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1960542-dublin-tourists-lead-icy-st-patricks-day-parade.html 2013-03-17T19:48:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1959068-revelers-nyc-to-dublin-mark-st-patricks-day.html NEW YORK (AP) — Crowds cheered and bagpipes bellowed during New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, and people with a fondness for anything Irish began a weekend of festivities from the Louisiana bayou to Dublin. With the holiday itself falling on a Sunday, many celebrations were scheduled instead for Saturday because of religious observ... Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:08:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1959068-revelers-nyc-to-dublin-mark-st-patricks-day.html 2013-03-17T00:08:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1956466-politicians-rise-highlights-nyc-parade-dispute.html NEW YORK (AP) — She's a leading candidate to be New York's next mayor. She's already one of its top Irish-American officials. Christine Quinn is also a lesbian and proud of it. And that's why the City Council speaker won't be marching in Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade, an event so entrenched in New York tradition that it's older than the United State... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:57:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1956466-politicians-rise-highlights-nyc-parade-dispute.html 2013-03-15T22:57:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1897790-kosovo-celebrates-5-years-independence.html PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo celebrated the fifth anniversary of their declaration of independence from Serbia with a parade of police and armed forces in the main square of the capital Sunday. It's the first time such forces have been used in a parade since the end of the 1998-99 war with Serbia. The country's lightly armed Kosovo S... Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:32:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1897790-kosovo-celebrates-5-years-independence.html 2013-02-17T17:32:35Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1884984-rio-de-janeiros-samba-schools-vie-title.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Carnival revelers danced until dawn on Tuesday as Rio de Janeiro's samba schools held their annual sequin-drenched parade competitions at the city's iconic Sambadrome. The all-night-long parade saw six top-tier samba schools deploy powerful percussion sections, larger-than-life floats and battalions of nearly nude samba dancers. Tens... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1884984-rio-de-janeiros-samba-schools-vie-title.html 2013-02-12T19:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1885728-raindrops-gloomy-skies-mardi-gras.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Despite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy floats with make-believe monarchs in an all-out bash before Lent. In the French Quarter, as usual, Fat Tuesday played out with all its flesh and raunchiness. Crowds were a little smaller than recent years, perhaps influenced by th... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1885728-raindrops-gloomy-skies-mardi-gras.html 2013-02-12T19:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1886164-carnival-float-catches-fire-killing-4-brazil.html SAO PAULO (AP) — A fire on a Carnival float has killed four people and injured five in the Brazilian port city of Santos. A fire department official says the float caught fire shortly after the Sangue Jovem samba school ended its parade at dawn on Tuesday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. ... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1886164-carnival-float-catches-fire-killing-4-brazil.html 2013-02-12T12:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1885432-rio-teacher-to-prove-gringos-samba-too.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With their gyrating hips and feet that move so fast they dissolve into a blur, samba instructor Carla Campos' students are barely distinguishable from the swarms of scantily clad dancers in Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parades. What's make them different is where they come from: abroad. While non-Brazilians have long shelled out hundred... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1885432-rio-teacher-to-prove-gringos-samba-too.html 2013-02-12T12:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1886036-orleans-revelers-threat-soggy-fat-tuesday.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scattered showers didn't deter revelers Monday as thousands flocked to New Orleans' historic French Quarter and surrounding areas along the Mississippi River for festivities leading up to Mardi Gras. Despite the weather, Monday's parades proceeded as planned. Those included the Krewe of Orpheus, led by entertainer Harry Connick Jr., and... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1886036-orleans-revelers-threat-soggy-fat-tuesday.html 2013-02-12T11:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882714-hundreds-toil-months-rios-carnival-parade.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — There's nothing glamorous about the industrial warehouse reverberating with the zap of soldering metal, the clatter of hammers and an earsplitting whine of a circular saw, or in the sweat-drenched workers toiling in the midafternoon summer heat among huge bolts of cloth and heavy-duty sewing machines. Yet it's from warehouses like th... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882714-hundreds-toil-months-rios-carnival-parade.html 2013-02-11T06:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1881032-mardi-gras-ball-1st-superdome-event-blackout.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — This time, the lights stayed on in the Superdome. The glitzy Mardi Gras Krewe of Endymion rolled its parade and super float through the Superdome on Saturday night and Kelly Clarkson performed amid purple, green and gold lights in the first major event at the venue since the Super Bowl blackout. While the black tie b... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1881032-mardi-gras-ball-1st-superdome-event-blackout.html 2013-02-10T07:40:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1880824-largest-ever-mardi-gras-float-hiccup.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a city known for overindulgence, maybe the largest-ever Mardi Gras float was a little too much. The 330-foot long super float built by the Krewe of Endymion had to be separated in half to make a turn during its parade Saturday. Shelton Carr, who was working security at the Superdome, says the float was separated and then re-attached ... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1880824-largest-ever-mardi-gras-float-hiccup.html 2013-02-10T04:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1870194-fans-march-with-ravens-parade-to-packed-stadium.html BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore celebrated with its Super Bowl champion Ravens on Tuesday, with thousands of fans in purple lining the streets and packing the team's stadium for a celebration. Fans filled the square in front of City Hall and cheered when the team arrived and when players held the silver Lombardi trophy aloft. The Mayor's Office of Emergency Ma... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1870194-fans-march-with-ravens-parade-to-packed-stadium.html 2013-02-05T21:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1865518-super-bowl-watch-super-indeed-baltimores-joy.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: WHAT A GAME! SUPER BOWL SUPER INDEED This year's Super Bowl sure lived up to its name. With a power outage, a record kickoff ret... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1865518-super-bowl-watch-super-indeed-baltimores-joy.html 2013-02-04T07:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1865762-argentine-music-troupes-launch-carnival-parades.html BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's carnival celebrations may not be as well-known as the ones in neighboring Uruguay and Brazil, but residents of the nation's capital are equally passionate about their "murgas," or traditional musical troupes. The more than 100 murgas in Buenos Aires launched their annual festivities over the weekend in a last blo... Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1865762-argentine-music-troupes-launch-carnival-parades.html 2013-02-03T20:40:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1834846-inaugural-do-over-chomping-gum-savoring-view.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Let's hear it for the do-over. Inaugurations are always moments of great ceremony and pageantry. But, hey, everybody can rel-a-a-a-ax a little the second time around. After the electric moment of President Barack Obama's first swearing-in, the second inaugural was just so much more ... comfortable. ... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1834846-inaugural-do-over-chomping-gum-savoring-view.html 2013-01-22T02:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835148-inauguration-watch-special-dress-ends-big-day.html WASHINGTON (AP) — AP journalists fanned out across the capital to cover Inauguration Day as part of a running feed of content and analysis. Here are their reports. A NEW CHAPTER AP National Political Editor Liz Sidoti closes Inauguration Watch by summing up the day's events and what they might mean. No, this wasn't the euphoric celebration of 2009 that mesmerized a hungry nation clinging to pro... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835148-inauguration-watch-special-dress-ends-big-day.html 2013-01-22T02:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835672-quick-hits-moments-obama-inaugural.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A wistful moment for President Barack Obama came shortly after his public swearing-in ceremony. As he began walking off the inaugural platform to go into the U.S. Capitol for the traditional luncheon with lawmakers and other dignitaries, Obama stopped and turned around to look at the scene on the National Mall, filled with hundreds of th... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835672-quick-hits-moments-obama-inaugural.html 2013-01-21T21:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835248-obama-lady-walk-inaugural-parade.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Monday emerged twice from their limousine to respond to wildly cheering crowds along the inaugural parade route from Capitol Hill to the White House. The couple waved to chanting, flag-waving crowds lining Pennsylvania Avenue to celebrate the start of Obama's second term. Spectators... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835248-obama-lady-walk-inaugural-parade.html 2013-01-21T20:57:00Z