Notting Hill Carnival was long known as a Caribbean festival, but today Londoners from many cultural backgrounds participate.

The performances and contests that make up the longest carnival in the world will continue well into March.

Here is a selection of photos from this year's Notting Hill Carnival posted on Flickr.

At the same time foreigners and Uruguayans dedicate blog posts to the event, share photos, videos and thoughts on the world s longest carnival.

Blogs like Uruguay Carnavalero cover the parades and competitions, re post news, and share important announcements and event schedules.

Girls in costume resting at the side of the street during the Notting Hill Carnival children's parade, Sunday 26 August, 2007.

Culture Saint Kitts and Nevis is known for a number of musical celebrations including Carnival (18 December to 3 January on Saint Kitts).

This year, Solange González Henott wrote about Uruguay s carnival in El Blog de la Ruta , a travel blog from news site Otramérica.

With every that day passes, the mood on the square becomes more like a daily open carnival organised by the people and for the people.

The Trinidadian influence may be strongest in Notting Hill Carnival, but the festival has always been celebrated by Londoners with roots in many other Caribbean territories.

The site Carnaval del Uruguay , for example, provides forums and a chat room where users can discuss different aspects of carnival.

As in J'Ouvert, the pre dawn event that opens many Caribbean carnivals, these masqueraders have covered themselves in mud Notting Hill Carnival, Sunday 26 August, 2007.

In today s free market carnival, nothing seems visible unless it is scandalous and nothing is scandalous enough to be memorable.

In a carnival on February 2, which was attended by more than a hundred thousand people in the Republic Square in Cairo, he delivered a speech on behalf of the youth organization.

The fans of national sides are actors in a kind of patriotic carnival, dressed in the costumes of their national stereotypes English fans as medieval knights, the Dutch in clogs, the Spanish as bullfighters.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings

in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Of the decked vessels, 86 percent are found in Asia, 7.8 percent in Europe, 3.8 percent in North and Central America, 1.3 percent in Africa, 0.6 percent in South America and 0.4 percent in Oceania.

The percentage of female minors taking matriculation exams in science is 45 electronics 12 , biology 66 , chemistry 62 , computers 43 and physics 30 .

The number employed in industry in the United Kingdom is 19.1 per cent versus 5 per cent in Uganda.

The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work.

In absolute numbers the Greek military budget ranked 28th in the world in 2005.

The enrolment rate is 98 per cent for men and 96 per cent for women for elementary education, 56.3 per cent for men and 57.5 per cent for women for secondary education, 18.4 per cent for men and 21.3 per cent for women in higher education.

Russell died of influenza on 2 February 1970 at his home, Plas Penrhyn, in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire, Wales.

Let no man despise your youth but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Let no man despise thy youth but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

The percentage of woman headmasters is 100 for preschool level, 34.31 for primary level, 21.08 for secondary level, 7.92 for university level and 6.7 for college level.

The increase in membership is projected at an annual level of 7.6 per cent on average under the insurance plans administered at Headquarters, at a level of 11.7 per cent on average at Geneva and a level of 16.0 per cent on average under the insurance plans administered by the United Nations Office at Vienna.

Transport and insurance payments as a proportion of the value of exports are 55.5 per cent in Malawi, 51.8 per cent in Chad, 48.4 per cent in Rwanda, 35.6 per cent in Mali, 35.5 per cent in Uganda and 32.8 per cent in the Central African Republic.3

The peripheral was launched in a bundle with The Eye of Judgment in the United States on October 23, 2007, in Japan and Australia on October 25, 2007 and in Europe on October 26, 2007.

The female population is 25.8 per cent urban, 31.13 per cent suburban and 43 per cent rural, while the male population is 25.28 per cent urban, 32.02 per cent suburban and 42.71 per cent rural.

The geographical distribution of responses remained largely unchanged between the second and third reporting periods (Africa, 19 per cent Americas, 19 per cent Asia, 28 per cent Europe, 32 per cent and Oceania, 2 per cent).

Lampedusa Airport is an airport in Lampedusa, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy .

She died on 21 February 1991 in a hospital in Panama City, Panama, aged 71.

It is sown in dishonor it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness it is raised in power.

It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power

The estimated share of non agricultural workforce that is informal is 30 per cent in Portugal 38 per cent in Chile 40 per cent in Mexico 50 per cent in Thailand, Turkey and Brazil 70 per cent in India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines and 80 per cent in sub Saharan Africa.

In April 2007 the starboard side finally collapsed causing the wreck to break in half and fall into the sea.

He graduated in philosophy at Zurich in 1841, and in medicine at Heidelberg in 1842.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.