The western German city of Cologne ... clubs that play a big role in the street carnival, making up large portions of the parades. They wear uniforms that play on military customs and oaths ...

A car has been driven into a crowd at a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen. Thirty people, a third of them children, were injured, some seriously. A 29-year-old German ...

Germany's Carnival season gets under way on Monday, with tens of thousands of revellers expected once again in the western ...