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By Kevin McGill NEW ORLEANS — A brass band strolled through a riverside warehouse holding huge, colourful parade floats as New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and other city officials Tuesday kicked off the city’s official countdown to Mardi Gras. “Everybody...

The devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina on one of the US’ oldest and most populous cities shocked the world in 2005. Causing huge structural damage, close to 1,000 deaths and the loss of countless people’s homes, many thought that the effects of...

Here is a list of Filipino festivals, fiestas and local celebrations in the month of September 2014. HINUGYAW FESTIVAL/ COTABATO PROVINCE FOUNDATION ANNIVERSARY Kidapawan City | September 1 A festival highlighting the province’s foundation anniversary...

The Bahamas or the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an archipelagic nation comprising approximately 700 islands, rocks (islets), and cays, covering about 100,000 square miles in the western Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba and the Dominican Republic and...

By Deborah Tetley When 21-year-old Brittany Mercier climbed aboard a horse named Sweet Home Alabama at the 2010 Calgary Stampede rodeo, the crowd went berserk. The diminutive Airdrie gal was about to compete in the novice bareback, shattering the gender...