The end of Germany's famous carnival season was marked by public celebrations on Monday. The Rhineland cities of Düsseldorf ...

Police in Mannheim, Germany asked people to avoid the downtown area amid an ongoing operation after a vehicle reportedly hit a crowd.

Germany's largest Carnival parade on Shrove Monday, known in Germany as Rose Monday, kicked off in the western German city of Cologne on Monday morning. This year's festivities come amid a tense ...

Police in Mannheim, Germany asked people to avoid the downtown area after a vehicle plowed into a crowd near a Carnival ...

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 floats for Cologne's annual Shrove Monday parade are famous for poking fun at the powerful and mockingly referring to controversies. But the church's reaction suggested that the city's ...

"The Monday and Tuesday before Lent were periods of great festivity before the coming days of abstinence," the website says. "Children would go 'Shroving' or 'Lent-crocking' on Shrove Tuesday or ...

Jurgen Klopp is one of the notable subjects to have been transformed into a styrofoam float for the Mainz carnival parade on Shrove Monday. The float portrays Klopp with wings made of banknotes ...

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day is the traditional feast day before the Lent fast starts on Ash Wednesday. Today, ...

(Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call) Glazed fastnachts cool on trays Monday, March 3, 2025 at Easton Baking Co. in Easton. The annual Pennsylvania Dutch celebration of Fastnacht Day falls on Shrove ...