Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to watch a two-day game of mass street ...

The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings.

In the 826-year-old Atherstone Ball Game, there are two rules, locals say: Keep the big leather ball on the main street, and don’t kill anyone.

For $2 a go, tourists can purchase sticks of dynamite and experience them exploding in the “nightmarish” subterranean world ...

See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

St. Mary's Episcopal Church hosted its 70th annual Shrove Tuesday Oyster Supper on Tuesday at the Parish Hall.

Lucia Johnstone, 84, of Stonington took a break from prepping for the Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner late Tuesday afternoon to ...

Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe's fiancée, Kimberly Burch, has died after a tragic fall from a cruise ship. For $2 a go, ...

Story and photos by Athena Schrader To help celebrate Mardi Gras Tuesday, also known as Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, “Carnivale” or Pancake Day, Grayling’s Goodales Bakery prepared a wide variety of ...