
Pope blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidsons
Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's ...

Parade marks Queen Elizabeth II's birthday
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her birthday Saturday with traditional pomp and circumstance, followed by a visit to her husband in the hospital.
Israel's Tel Aviv holds annual gay pride parade
Drag queens, politicians, grandmothers and shirtless men descended on Tel Aviv in their thousands Friday to party in the annual gay pride parade, the ...

Float driver says train seemed still before crash
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 ...

Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition
Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did ...

Gay pride rally in Georgia derailed
Thousands of anti-gay protesters, including Orthodox priests, occupied a central street in Georgia's capital Friday, with some threatening to lash ...

Man U fans pack streets to honor champs, Ferguson
In front of tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting fans, Manchester United players and retiring manager Alex Ferguson paraded the Premier ...

AP PHOTOS: Few know story of Jews in Red Army
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 ...
WikiLeaks suspect won't be SF Pride parade marshal
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 ...

Bowler-hatted impersonators mark Chaplin birthday
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 ...

Dublin tourists lead icy St. Patrick's Day parade
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 ...

Revelers from NYC to Dublin mark St. Patrick's Day
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 ...

Politician's rise highlights NYC parade dispute
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 ...

Kosovo celebrates 5 years of independence
Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo celebrated the fifth anniversary of their declaration of independence from Serbia with a parade of police and armed forces ...

Rio de Janeiro's samba schools vie for title
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 ...

Raindrops, gloomy skies can't stop Mardi Gras
Despite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy floats with make-believe monarchs in an ...
Carnival float catches fire, killing 4 in Brazil
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 ...

Rio teacher out to prove 'gringos' can samba, too
With their gyrating hips and feet that move so fast they dissolve into a blur, samba instructor Carla Campos' students are barely distinguishable from ...

New Orleans revelers: threat of soggy Fat Tuesday
Scattered showers didn't deter revelers Monday as thousands flocked to New Orleans' historic French Quarter and surrounding areas along the ...

Hundreds toil for months for Rio's Carnival parade
There's nothing glamorous about the industrial warehouse reverberating with the zap of soldering metal, the clatter of hammers and an earsplitting ...

Mardi Gras ball 1st Superdome event since blackout
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 ...
Largest-ever Mardi Gras float has a little hiccup
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 ...

Fans march with Ravens' parade to packed stadium
Baltimore celebrated with its Super Bowl champion Ravens on Tuesday, with thousands of fans in purple lining the streets and packing the team's ...

SUPER BOWL WATCH: Super indeed, Baltimore's joy
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...