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

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

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

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

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

Street drama

I met her on the street.

Mubarak refuses to give in, but he's kneeling to the demands of the streets more and more so let's stay in the streets then.

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

Mr. Karan is known in his area as street dog doctor because of his caring love for street dogs.

She was scared to cross the road.

She was afraid to cross the road.

What's the width of this road?

I froze in the middle of street.

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.

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

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

There's a hotel across the street.

I walked here and there on the street.

A fresh layer of snow covered the street.

Thumbnail Melodies in the street.

Do I look naked?!

The Indonesian Street Art Database is a project that documents street art and urban art culture in Indonesia.

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

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.

And then, in the middle of a sentence, at the very birth of twilight, I turned and looked down the street.

Now at the time, I was working down the street.

I found this ring on the street this morning.

cover the streets like pellagra

But alas, we saw that the queue was extended to the road.

Pick up garbage from your street. My dear fellow Egyptians, we call on you to cooperate with us regardless of your geographic location, beliefs, age, education, or job.

So this direction in the street were kind of interesting.

You have no right to stop at this street.

The street Ahmad Shihabi left in Yarmouk, Syria.

Children working and or living on the street

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.

FG People on the street came and knocked on the door to see if I was okay.

I directed a movie two years ago called Step Up 2 The Streets.

And by the start of the month, the Egyptian streets turn 180 degrees, with young children competing to have the most beautiful street in the area, with decorations and by hanging colored flags.

She who wishes to stay home has every right to do so but the street belongs to the free society ... only burglars hide their faces.

Street poster featuring Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

Theater also has its place in the Venezuelan street art world.

MalakBoghdady Woman are not a piece of meat, walking on the street.

It is bordered by smart stores and restaurants along most of its length.

passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,