An estate in a gated community on Steelwood Lake in Loxley, Ala., features a pool house, a sports bar, wine cellar, humidor ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Conservative members of Freedom Caucus have achieved a first. Starting Tuesday, they will comprise a majority of the Wyoming ...

OUIDAH, Jan 12 — Clad in white and pink, Deborah Bossou, 25, blends vibrant song with dance as she immerses herself with fellow practitioners in Vodun, traditional voodoo celebrations in Benin. This ...

This weekend brought the traditional Vodun Days annual festival encompassing arts, culture and voodoo spirituality to the southern town of Ouidah, centre on the Sakpata Zoungbodji religious convent.

For the first few years of their relationship, Beyoncé maintained as her bachelorette pad a $5 million condo in midtown Manhattan overlooking Central Park, which she purchased in 2005. The ...

Like everything she owns, Paris Hilton’s houses are over the top. Whether you were aware of her in the early aughts or if you’ve simply bared witness to the Y2K revival in recent years, odds ...

Overprovision can be seen as an architecture strategy through the lens of resilience—making spaces adaptable to changes, reinterpretations, and future needs. However, could overprovision also ...

Though it wasn’t all To’ak chocolates and Juliet roses when it came to offloading ritzy megamansions, the ultra-luxury housing market nonetheless managed to muster up a bit of steam in 2024.

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

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Former Michigan Wolverine quarterback, reigning CFP national champion, and top 10 NFL draft pick JJ McCarthy seemingly has it all, and now you can add a swag lake house to that list. McCarthy and ...