The best clothes enhance the wearer - her smile, her eyes, her outlook. Carolina Herrera's fall collection offered Monday at New York Fashion Week highlighted what's likely to be a trend for next season, and a welcome one at that: Modern styles that put the focus on a woman's face thanks to high, interesting necklines.
Residents are blasting a plan to erect a statue with a face resembling that of France's Italian-born first lady in an effort to honor this small town's immigrants from Italy.
Billy Bob Thornton says his frustration at the state of films in America prompted him to direct his first feature in more than a decade, the 1960s family drama "Jayne Mansfield's Car."
Mark Salzman's latest book is based on a live performance.
Dionne Warwick has postponed a Valentine's Day concert at a western Pennsylvania theater after the death of her cousin Whitney Houston.
You can convey a refined-yet-sporty elegance with double-breasted coats, suede field jackets and scarf-print silk dresses. Or you could create an elaborate set for a fashion show with a brick-path runway, park benches and ivy-covered walls. Tommy Hilfiger did both.
What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a car during a stormy breakup?
Angelina Jolie said Monday she hopes her directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey" will provoke a wider discussion about rape - something that the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said could be extremely valuable in helping bring perpetrators to justice.
The U.S. government says plenty of evidence supports a federal jury's conviction of Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges.
Queen Elizabeth II has a new sidekick for royal events: The Duchess of Cambridge.
Angelina Jolie says she's not yet sure whether she will follow her directorial debut on the Bosnian war with another film on such serious material - but she has already written a script focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan.
The family of Waylon Jennings will soon release songs the country music icon recorded shortly before his death 10 years ago.
Grammy celebrants stepped out of the Staples Center and into tropical South America at the official awards-show after party.
Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then.
Adele's songs about breakups and heartache have made her a multi-Grammy award winner but she insists she's done with all that.
Winners in selected major categories at Sunday's 54th Annual Grammy Awards:
Winners in selected major categories at Sunday's 54th Annual Grammy Awards:
One of the Grammy show's most poignant moments was one that TV viewers didn't see.
Diane von Furstenberg let the crowd attending New York Fashion Week in on a little secret Sunday: Fashion is a puzzle.
Winners in selected major categories at Sunday's 54th Annual Grammy Awards:
Fashionistas shivered visibly on Sunday in a makeshift event space along the blustery Hudson River, where the Edun fashion label, founded by U2's Bono and wife Ali Hewson, was displaying its Fall 2012 collection. But the models wore bright, African prints that made one feel, at least momentarily, in a much warmer clime.
With an opening prayer and a moving tribute from Jennifer Hudson, the Grammy Awards played the part of impromptu memorial for Whitney Houston just a day after the six-time Grammy winner was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room.
Whitney Houston was underwater and apparently unconscious when she was pulled from a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, and she had prescription drugs in her room, officials said Monday as the regal pop star's family made arrangements to fly her body home to New Jersey for a funeral at the end of the week.
Winners of the 2012 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:
The Roots saved some of their love for Whitney Houston.
It's time for the well-heeled women who shop from New York Fashion Week runways to pull themselves up by their bootstraps - preferably Christian Louboutins - and carry off clothes rooted in strength, confidence and even toughness.
Tracy Reese is feeling optimistic, if not downright festive, for fall.
Diana Ross thinks she should receive a lifetime achievement Grammy for being a mother - not a music legend.
Once the clothing collections are nearly complete and the models who'll wear them have been chosen, it's time for designers to plan and test one other important part of the looks they present at New York Fashion Week: hair and makeup.
Voters in the German city of Duisburg ousted their mayor in a ballot Sunday prompted by persistent anger at his refusal to quit following the deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010.
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