London mayor Boris Johnson said Friday's opening ceremony to the London Games had knocked Beijing's popular spectacular into "a cocked hat" .

Speaking at the Olympic Park on Saturday, the mayor described the...

Albanian/Nat

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Pristina on Sunday to cheer the military force that preceded the arrival of NATO in Kosovo one year
ago.
The Kosovo Protection...

Spanish/Nat

Thousands of Cubans have walked through the streets of Central Havana to honour the island's Roman Catholic patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of...

1. Lebanese president Emile Lahoud with Lebanese defence minister Elias Murr in a jeep passing line of army soldiers

2. Wide of group of helicopters flying over
head
3. Lahoud walks up steps and...

1. High shot of Zocalo square with thousands gathered

2. Various of pro-Lopez Obrador protesters at the square, protesters chanting "Obrador" and other phrases during military parade
and
3. Various of...

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Saturday (17/8) criticised the approach of Israel's government towards Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Arafat made his comments after belatedly celebrating his...

Spanish/Nat

Carnival season is underway in Cuba with the launch this week of celebrations due to last right through to August
15.
The opening parade took place on Friday but the biggest...

HEADLINE: Raw Video: Beer starts flowing at Oktoberfest

CAPTION: The beer is flowing at the 176th Oktoberfest in Munich, expected to draw some six million visitors downing 1.6 million gallons of beer. (Sept
....

English/Nat

Title: Gay Mardi Gras
preps
Date: Feb
ruary 2001
Location: Sy
dney, Australia
With the world's most famous flesh festival, the Rio Carnival, fading into memory...

President Francois Mitterrand opened France's traditional Bastille

Day military parade on Thursday (14/7) amid controversy ove
r the
presence of German troops rolling through Paris for the
first...

English/Nat

Ghosts, goblins and drag queens took to the streets of New York City Friday for a Halloween pa
rade.
Greenwich village played host to the living... for a parade of
the dead.
The...

1. Man and woman celebrate by squirting a water pistol at the camera, on Bangkok''s Khao San Road

2. Man with water pistol sprays water at passer-by, who bends over and offers his behind to be squirted...

Spanish/Nat

Colombian baseball star Edgar Renteria got a hero's welcome in his hometown on Thursday after taking the Florida Marlins to their first ever World Series t
itle.
The local mayor,...

Thousands of people in London and Paris turned out to watch parades to celebrate Chinese New Year on Sunday.

In the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris, thousands marched in a parade as people...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday to participate in the city's annual gay pride parade.

The parade, which included a march to highlight the concerns of the gay community in Spain, worked its...

Portuguese/Nat

The countdown to Brazil's world famous carnival is on and thousands are limbering up for five days of s
amba.
The dance embodies Brazilian culture in its most...

1. Top shot of Israeli soldiers lying on ground, firing

2. Wide of Hebron skyline, smoke r
ising
3. Wide of Israeli soldier lying on ground, firing at Palestinian
protestors
4. Mid of Jewish settlers...

Natural Sound

A potentially volatile parade in Northern Ireland has taken place without major incid
ent.
The march by the Protestant Apprentice Boys through Londonderry is the last major event in...

1. Wide Santas marching

2. Close up Santas ringing bells and saying "Merry Chris
tmas"
3. Two women waving to
the Santas
4. Close up of Santa
ringing a bell
5. Ground level sho
t of Santas...

1. Pan from Copacabana Beach to crowd gathered on boardwalk for Gay Pride parade

2. Wide shot of sound trucks and people waiting for parade to
start
3. Tilt-down from Brazilian flag with the...

Some 2.1 million Japanese workers took to the streets on Wednesday (1/5) in May Day rallies protesting record unemployment caused by the country's worst post-war recession. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto meanwhile became...

17 February 2013

1. Pan of Kosovo Security Force parading in the city ce
ntre
2. Close of armed K
SF members
3. Wide of ar
moured vehicles
4. Mid of armed KSF member on top
of armoured...

Celebrations took place in troubled Kashmir on Thursday (15/8) to

commemorate the 50th anniversary of India's independence
from
Britain. It was the first such celebration held in se
ven years.
But...

1. Wide shot of marchers in street

2. Mid shot marchers carrying giant rainbow
flags
3. People
in stilts
4
. Various march
5. SOUNDBITE: (Eng
lish) Voxpop, Yossi:
"I think it used to be harder but it is...