When Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert met in 2005, she was a Nashville reality show survivor with one critically acclaimed album and he was a grinning goofball who even in his best moments had the feel of a country music journeyman made good.

Since Sunday, when the government announced a round-the-clock curfew, everyone — men, women, teenagers, toddlers — has been locked in. There is no telling when the curfew will be lifted, and there is no leaving.

A bountiful Italian mushroom season has turned deadly, claiming the lives of at least 18 people in recent weeks. According to Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, mushroom seekers have been so relentless in their pursuit of their favorite fungi, they...

Gunmen burst into a house north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killed three people and then sent the surviving children to lure over soldiers from a nearby Iraqi army checkpoint, killing eight. The pre-dawn incident in the volatile Diyala province...

Lawsuits over gay marriage have escalated on the nation’s two coasts, energizing advocates on both sides and bringing the legal battle over same-sex marriage closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. Final arguments in a constitutional test of...

A man in a remote fishing village in Brazil kept his daughter imprisoned for 12 years, raped her repeatedly and had seven children with her, police said Wednesday. The man is also accused of abusing a young girl he had with his daughter. Police...

The two proposed referendum drives challenging Arizona’s new sweeping law targeting illegal immigration are being abandoned, organizers said Monday. Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator involved in one of the efforts, said its backers...

With summer hopefully on the horizon, the fashion world looks set to be stormed by a resurgence of the hippy style maxi dress. In the 70s, the hippy style took hold of fashion but the maxi dress suffered a short run when it first appeared on the scene....

ghd Hair offers their customers three basic models of hair straighteners. These models are specially designed for different hair lengths and a wide variety of textures. One of these models is the ghd Salon Styler which was created with wider ceramic...

Ah, Spring time. When the nasty snow finally melts out of the last parking lots, young women’s legs finally escape their cloth prisons, and flowers sit all pretty and sweet smelling on top of picturesque meadows. Or some nonsense like that. ...