The winners of the annual Mask competition have been announced, with all of the masks being displayed in Angel Place ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The wall of Olga Valles’ office is a vast tableau of famous faces past and present: Barack Obama smiles warmly, while Yasser Arafat poses in his trademark black-and-white ...

ORURO, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian Fernando Flores has been making dazzling masks for the Oruro carnival for most of his life, and so did three generations of the Flores family before him. But the ...

In Venice, Italy, it is that time again. Time for grand costume balls, fierce mask contests, towering wigs and a parade of preening, strutting revelers as city residents and visitors from around the ...

Thousands of visitors were unfazed by the thick fog that enshrouded the start of the Carnival of Venice on Jan. 27. It is an annual tradition where people wear masks and costumes in the historic city.