Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said city officials had done everything they could to make people feel secure during the Feb. 4-9 carnival but safety could never be 100 percent guaranteed.

COLOGNE—A day after the Carnival festival kicked off across Germany’s Rhineland without widespread disturbances, the arrest of a refugee on Friday for suspected rape highlighted tensions that ...

Carnival Prince Sven I. announced Tuesday that he had tested positive despite being vaccinated and canceled all public appearances including the traditional reception at Cologne's city hall ...

In Cologne as well as in other cities, this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations were accompanied by a martial police operation. The number of state police was increased tenfold to 1,500.

Cologne has beefed up security for the city's annual carnival, after many women suffered sexual assaults and robberies there on New Year's Eve. The city in western Germany has put 2,500 police ...

Three injured at Cologne carnival after horses run into crowd The parade was briefly stopped after the horses, which were pulling a coach belonging to the Treue Husaren, were spooked and ran at ...

Revellers celebrate the start of Cologne, Germany's famous carnival. This year, the event takes place in the aftermath of hundreds of sexual-assault complaints on New Year's Eve. (Nahlah Ayed/CBC) ...

POLICE in Cologne have apologised for sending an email asking refugee organisations to keep asylum seekers away from the city's famous carnival this month. By Ross Logan 20:15, Mon, Feb 6, 2017 ...

Cologne’s mayor, Henriette Reker, said she had “not the slightest concern” that people would not be able to celebrate carnival as usual, while also admitting that “one can never provide a ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Bundesliga club Cologne has scrapped plans to play its next match in a specially-designed carnival outfit out of respect for the victims of the Paris attacks.

In Cologne, one of the well-known strongholds of the festival in Germany, Carnival was extra contentious this year. After announcing in late January that it would scrap a planned Charlie Hebdo float ...

The Cologne Carnival is taking place this weekend. But what do newly arrived migrants in the German city think of the famously hedonistic festival? We asked Noura from Lebanon for impressions from ...