Pet lovers kicked off Carnival celebrations with dozens of dogs dressed as fairies and superheroes and others festooned in ribbons, feathers and head pieces.

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The hosts had to recover from a 10-5 half-time deficit before withstanding a late Azzurri rally.

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‘Will take down [Pope] Francis,’ the MAGA political strategist appears to have written in a message to the pedophile financier in June 2019

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Curtis Signal, 25, was arrested following the violent attack in Brooklyn Saturday at a nearby men’s shelter

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The National Weather Service has issued a stark warning and urging “extreme caution” to those travelling

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Mud-covered revelers took over the beach in Paraty, Brazil, on Saturday as part of a Carnival tradition that has grown steadily since it began 40 years ago. In the seaside town near the country’s historic colonial center, participants coated themselves in gray sludge, rolled through the silty shallows and emerged caked head to toe before dancing along the sand chanting “Uga! Uga!”

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Women have effectively been working for free for the first month and a half of the year compared to men, says the TUC General Secretary

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Young best known for photographing icons likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Mick Jagger, was speaking on ‘Desert Island Discs’

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‘The cost of chaos under the Labour Party is growing and getting worse’, says the SNP Westminster leader

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Douglas Alexander will fly to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore over the coming week

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The Egyptian set up a goal and finished the scoring from the penalty spot as Liverpool eased past Brighton at Anfield.

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A Carnival party in Paraty swaps glitter and costumes for mud, as crowds cover themselves in gray sludge and celebrate as one group

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Thousands of fishermen have descended on the Matan Fadan river, a UNESCO heritage site that snakes through lush vegetation in the village of Argungu in Nigeria’s northwest

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The pilot reportedly told air traffic controllers he hit ‘four or five deer’

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The ex-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize committee appears hundreds of times in the files

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Erika shared a photo of a handwritten note from her late husband

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In the absence of VAR, Kavanagh and his assistant referees seemingly got at least three major decisions wrong in the FA Cup clash

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The toxin is reportedly 100 times more powerful than morphine

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Wasserman had exchanged flirtatious emails with Maxwell in 2003, before Epstein was convicted in Florida

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