1.   The town was humming with preparations for the annual carnival.

2.   The school holds an annual carnival on a Saturday when students can show off their costumes.

3.   Tonight, Meridian is hosting its annual Halloween carnival.

4.   Merida is one of a half-dozen Mexican cities that celebrate the annual carnival festival.

5.   The annual carnival overwhelms a large swathe of central London as parades of brightly dressed, Caribbean-style dancers and musicians wind through the streets.

6.   The annual carnival blowout, a bit like Mardi Gras on a grander scale, is traditionally a time for Brazilians to drink and dance the night away.

7.   The five-day Durga worship is the biggest annual carnival for Bengalis, the people of West Bengal state of which Calcutta is the capital.

8.   A time of wild excesses, lavish costumes and disguises, the annual carnival season reaches its heady climax on Tuesday with the Mardi Gras celebrations.

9.   Tourists, who had been trying to get to Venice for its annual carnival, accounted for many of the victims.

10.   Several trains went to Venice late Saturday where the annual carnival was in full swing.