Costumes, beads consume Mardi Gras in New Orleans
| BATHED in spring-like warmth and showered with trinkets, beads and music, New Orleans revelled in the excesses of Fat Tuesday. | Pictures: New Orleans Mardi Gras | A seemingly endless stream of cost...
Rio dazzles in Carnival finale
| RIO throbbed to sambas, pyrotechnics and dazzling parades in an ecstatic climax to its famed Carnival celebrations. | Pictures: The best of Rio's 2012 Carnival WARNING: Nudity | With bursts of firew...
Top 10 most expensive holiday destinations
| FOLLOWING on from last week's look at the cheapest destinations for Australian travellers, it makes sense to provide the budget-conscious travellers among you a list of places that are the most...
TecBan Wins Digital Banking Services Award in Brazil with GoNet Systems Outdoor Wi-Fi Solution
| GoNet Systems Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Deployment Delivers 24/7 Connectivity to ATMs in TecBan Banco24Horas Project | TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GoNet Systems, a provider of carrier-grade Wi-Fi s...
NATO troops in Afghanistan celebrate Mardi Gras
| KABUL — With feathered masks, glitter, cakes and even guns, America's most raucous holiday was feted by NATO troops and colleagues in Kabul late on Tuesday behind the towering concrete wa...
What is the connection between Mardi Gras and Lent?
| Mardi Gras is one of the most celebrated traditions around the world. What most don't understand is the real connection between Mardi Gras and the Christian faith. | Mardi Gras, is French for ...
African-American or black? Debate heats up in South Florida
| Do Americans need hyphens to tell the world who they are? | The debate over the term 'African-American' is heating up again as Black History Month winds down. Some, like Gibre George, a Hollywood-ba...
South Florida Startup SXLiquors to Unveil Laurence Gartel Art Concept Cars at the Boca Raton ...
| SXLiquors, a fast-growing company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale that infuses its Latin spirits with sensual and exotic ingredients to make the world’s sexiest cocktails, is set to unveil a ...
Sir Donald keeps royal tour afloat
| One of the Queen’s most devoted subjects has come to Her Majesty’s rescue yet again this week at the start of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. | Multi-millionaire car park king Sir Dona...
NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
NEWARK, N.J. - | Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, s...
Flooding across South America
| It’s been very wet in many parts of South America recently. Flooding has been reported in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. | In Colombia, the rains have continued long after they wo...
NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
| Click photo to enlargeImam Abdul A. Muhammad of the Masjid Imam K. Ali Muslim mosque in Newark, N.J., speaks in his clothing and accessories store regarding surveillance of the Muslim community by t...
Brazilian Gold Intersects 4 M Grading 8.06 G/T Within a Thicker Interval of 78 M Grading 0.97 G/T Gold at the Boa Vista Project, Brazil
| VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brazilian Gold Corporation (TSXV: BGC) is pleased to report assay results for the first 5 holes of the Phase Two drill program (approx. 2,500 m) on the ...
Religious Carnival bands use samba to prostyletize
| Religious touch: Revelers dressed as nuns parade with Sao Clemente samba school during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this photo taken Monday. (AP/Victor R. Ca...
World Cup: Prisoners, Former Slaves Help Brazil 2014 Push
Sao Paulo, Brazil. It wasn’t a tough choice for convicted bank robber Chiquinho: spend the day in a cell or make money out in the sun helping Brazil build a 2014 World Cup stadium. | Former slave wo...
Mardi Gras' costumes, beads give way to Lent's ashes in New Orleans
| NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officers on horseback cleared Bourbon Street early today, declaring an end to Carnival 2012 in New Orleans as Mardi Gras revelers began to prepare for the beginning of Lent,...
Ganso denies being jealous of Santos team-mate Neymar
The Brazilian starlet has refuted suggestions that he is jealous of his compatriot and insists that he has no intention of moving to Europe in the near future | Sign up with 188BET for a FREE bet up t...
