BINCHE, Belgium, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Around a thousand performers clad in traditional costumes featuring white wax masks and hats adorned with huge ostrich feathers paraded to the sound of drums in ...

Every year, the Venice Art Mask Factory in Albania's Shkoder produces more than 20,000 hand-crafted masks, including 1,700 unique pieces this year alone, to be donned by carnival revellers from ...

Amid a frenzy of fireworks and funk music they took over the streets, behind arresting masks, dressed in outsized, extravagantly patterned suits, gaudy tights and golden, purple and blue feathers.

Masks, wild costumes, confetti, fried frappe and castagnole – Carnival’s back. But not everyone knows that these celebrations date back to the dawn of time. “At exactly the same time of the year, the ...

BINCHE, Belgium — Around a thousand performers clad in traditional costumes featuring white wax masks and hats adorned with huge ostrich feathers paraded to the sound of drums in Belgium's most ...

Every year, the Venice Art Mask Factory in Albania's Shkoder produces more than 20,000 hand-crafted masks, including 1,700 unique pieces this year alone, to be donned by carnival revellers from ...

BINCHE, Belgium -- Around a thousand performers clad in traditional costumes featuring white wax masks and hats adorned with huge ostrich feathers paraded to the sound of drums in ...