We Love a Parade (New York Times)
Back in the days of yore, hundreds of thousands of people would turn out just to see a couple of political banners.

New director infuses Lighthouse with color and warmth (The Florida Times-Union)
The once-drab halls at Lighthouse Learning Center now sport lively banners and bubbling fish aquariums. There's even vibrant flowers painted on ceiling tiles.

Egypt struggles to curb rapid population growth (Gulf Times)
CAIRO: Red and white banners along Nile bridges and Cairo streets this month were Egypt’s latest effort to curb an increasingly pressing problem: a population growing faster than the economy can support.

Parading Around Town (El Campo Leader-News)
Students and teachers at First School and Day Care strolled around Alamo and Evans Park Thursday waving their American flags and banners in observance of the Fourth of July. Leading and pulling her son L.J. Garcia is Angela Garcia, toddler and 1-year-old teacher. Also in the wagon is Ariana Magallan, age 2.

New mass protest against govt, US beef in SKorea (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tens of thousands of South Koreans marched through the streets here Saturday demanding the scrapping of US beef imports and the resignation of President Lee Myung-Bak, witnesses said.

Protesters target G8 as France backs expansion (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Thousands rallied in northern Japan calling for the G8 rich industrialized nations to be disbanded on Saturday while in Paris, member France called for the group to grow to include major emerging states such as China and India.

Local Patriots: One joined the Navy, the other created banners to support the flag, troops (Springfield News-Sun)
Joseph Parsley was shucking corn in a field that later became Upper Valley Mall when he heard that Pearl Harbor had been hit.

Several thousand anti-G8 protesters rally in Japan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Several thousand people rallied on Saturday on the streets of central Sapporo, Japan, to protest against a Group of Eight summit due to start next week at a luxury hotel a two-hour drive away.

Protesters rally ahead of G8 summit (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Thousands of farmers and activists from around the world demonstrated Saturday in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations.

Thousands in S Korea beef protest (BBC News)
At least 35,000 people take part in the latest mass protest in South Korea against the resumption of US beef imports.