On Canada Day, Parliament Hill will host a huge street party concluding with the annual fireworks display.
Aetna (NYSE:AET) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), for instance, joined the Wall Street party on Election Day.
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The royal couple met fashion designers at Queen's Garden in Bromley and visited a street party in Jubilee Road.
About 80, 000 revellers are expected to descend on Edinburgh city centre for an open-air concert, ceilidh and street party.
To the uninitiated, the world's most scantily clad street party can be intimidating.
Organisers of Edinburgh's 2003 Hogmanay street party were forced to cancel the event due to severe weather in the capital.
Tickets are already on sale for Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party, featuring live music stages, giant screens and the famous midnight fireworks.
Berliners were only just opening the bottles of sparkling Sekt at the beginning of a street party that would last for days.
London's Mahiki Club is said to be planning a street party on Dover Street, while nearby Club Boujis may be throwing a party inside.
The crowds converged in the early afternoon, and many revellers climbed onto parked police cars, as the massive street party drew to a close.
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Mardi Gras organisers said the street party was organised unofficially by a local club adding they were disappointed with the stadium's decision to cancel.
More of that fat, sassy baritone leads into a crazy rave-up that could start a spontaneous street party far better than those scripted hoedowns in the movies.
Ten street parties took place in Edinburgh, with the Scottish capital understood to have made a third of all of Scotland's street party applications.
Record numbers of about seven million people - or one in seven of the population - are expected to watch the match on large open-air screens in the biggest street party the country has ever seen.
But Mr Livingstone said the fact it would be paying for the carnival's stewarding proved it was still committed to the west London street party and he also confirmed the Hyde Park event would not draw policing away from carnival.
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Schoolchildren were invited to ditch their uniforms for football jerseys, while Johannesburg planned a street party in the Sandton business district to teach people the "diski", a dance inspired by football moves that is the centrepiece of the country's marketing campaign.
"Vanity" - a bronze throne made of eerily life-like casts of his own body - will be sat upon by an actor playing yet another president, and delivering a fiery speech, at the street party he is planning for the launch of his new exhibition next month.
The market square outside Mi Tierra is suddenly alive with noise, colour and the aroma of muscular street food: the city is out in force to celebrate its Hispanic chilli queens, whose saucy banter and impromptu singalongs made every night a street party - until the 1930s, when the civic authorities despaired of their ribaldry and laissez-faire approach to food hygiene.
But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common set of values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.
In a statement issued after a two-and-a-half-hour long discussion at its headquarters in Belfast's Glengall Street, the party said it was disappointed by the decision of the government to "accept the more controversial recommendations" of the Patten Commission on policing.
The popular opinion is that the Republican party is more friendly to Wall Street and business than the Democratic Party.
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As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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The street-smart Labour Party leader and minister of defence, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, was quick to read the new reality.
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Some observers saw, at least initially, "an irresistible symmetry" between Occupy Wall Street and the tea party, despite some clear differences.
During the trip to Baker Street, the royal party met ticket, maintenance and train staff, including people involved in the restoration of rolling stock.
On Election Day, Wall Street was in a party mode.
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This week, the LDP leader, Sadakazu Tanigaki, told the Wall Street Journal that the party may not continue to co-operate with Mr Noda over the consumption tax (the bill has yet to clear the upper house).
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