Germany Carnival

Basel, Switzerland offers a unique travel experience: the chance to visit three different countries in just a matter of seconds.

A driver ploughed his car into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen on Monday injuring 30 people, including children, some of them seriously, police said on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of Cologne for its annual Rose Monday parade, the culmination of five days of Carnival festivities that took place amid heightened security following robberies and sexual assaults in the city on New Year's Eve.

Undeterred by sexual attacks blamed on migrants on New Year's Eve, German women in clown costumes and bright wigs kicked off six days of carnival celebrations in Cologne on Thursday amid unusually heavy security.

Long before the curtain came down on the month-long footballing carnival with Germany's victory on Sunday at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, many had already decided it deserved to be remembered as the greatest in the event's 84-year history.

Basel, Switzerland offers a unique travel experience: the chance to visit three different countries in just a matter of seconds.

A driver ploughed his car into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen on Monday injuring 30 people, including children, some of them seriously, police said on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of Cologne for its annual Rose Monday parade, the culmination of five days of Carnival festivities that took place amid heightened security following robberies and sexual assaults in the city on New Year's Eve.

Undeterred by sexual attacks blamed on migrants on New Year's Eve, German women in clown costumes and bright wigs kicked off six days of carnival celebrations in Cologne on Thursday amid unusually heavy security.

Long before the curtain came down on the month-long footballing carnival with Germany's victory on Sunday at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, many had already decided it deserved to be remembered as the greatest in the event's 84-year history.