Hundreds of thousands of costumed onlookers watched and cheered as Germany’s beloved Carnival parades made their way through city centres on Shrove Monday, the highlight of festivities each year.

Jurgen Klopp is one of the notable subjects to have been transformed into a styrofoam float for the Mainz carnival parade on ...

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 ...

The ramming came on what Christian Germans mark as Rose Monday, the highlight of their carnival season that takes place on Shrove Monday, before the Lenten period begins on Ash Wednesday.

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 COLOGNE, Germany ...

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 ...

COLOGNE, Germany — 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.