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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Adam Lambert, Sophia Loren, Sandra Bullock and other celebrities.
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'Tis the season for overwhelming travel, but never fear; Travelers Aid volunteers are here to help thousands of passengers find their way through Dulles and Reagan National airports and Union Station, during the crazy holiday season and beyond.
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Few honors rival that of being invited to dine at the White House and through the years, presidents have used state dinners as a means of bringing dignitaries, celebrities and -- most importantly -- countries, together.
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A few days after first meeting, Hagir Elawad and Medhat Ismail decided they'd found life partners in each other.
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As the entertainment industry powerhouse announces the end of her successful afternoon talk show, we look back at her years in broadcasting.
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Jeanne-Claude, well-known for large-scale, temporary art projects that she created with her husband, Christo, died Wednesday of complications after a brain aneurysm.
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"Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" opens Thursday at the National Geographic Museum in Washington. The exhibition offers the public the rare chance to examine these lifelike figures up close, each sculpted by hand, no two faces alike. The 15 warriors that will be on exhibit at National Geographic are the largest group of them to tour the United States.
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This is not your standard-issue holiday gift guide. Sometimes all you need is a little inspiration. So we turned to an assortment of notable locals and asked: Around the holidays, what is your favorite gift to give? Their suggestions range from classic to quirky, from elegant to offbeat.
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Hundreds go for a ride in old-fangled garb, proclaiming the return of the dandy.
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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Kristen Stewart, Colin Farrell and other celebrities.
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After years of break ups and make ups, a life-threatening diagnosis made Hope Galley and William Kurpiel take a second look at their relationship -- and get it right.
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Author Edward P. Jones's stories of black Washington have made him one of his generation's greatest writers.
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Wednesday's Country Music Assocation Awards in Nashville served as the coronation of Taylor Swift as country's reigning queen. The 19-year-old singer won four awards including the evening's biggest honor, entertainer of the year, becoming the youngest ever to capture the prize.
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Darvin Moon, a logger from western Maryland, is back in the spotlight as one of the two finalists in this year's World Series of Poker No Limit Texas Hold 'em main event.
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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Jim Carrey and other celebrities.
Scene In: The Benefit
Party-goers are looking good while doing good at the Knock-out Abuse fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown.
Party-goers are looking good while doing good at the Knock-out Abuse fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown.
The Healing Fields
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
A President's Retreat
During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln often sought refuge from official Washington in a 36-room retreat on the grounds of Soldier's Home, an armed forced retirement community. A seven-year, $17 million restoration of the historic space known as President Lincoln's Cottage is now complete.
During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln often sought refuge from official Washington in a 36-room retreat on the grounds of Soldier's Home, an armed forced retirement community. A seven-year, $17 million restoration of the historic space known as President Lincoln's Cottage is now complete.
Fashion Week
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
Newseum
An interactive tour of the news history museum that opens April 11 in its new, $450 million building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
An interactive tour of the news history museum that opens April 11 in its new, $450 million building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
MULTIMEDIA: The New Museum Opens in New York - The three levels of gallery space in the New Museum feature bare white walls and flat lighting. The artwork is arranged on cement floors, which have been allowed to crack. Art Critic Blake Gopnik reviews the art.
A selection of the best images by Post photographers this year.
Featuring the best work by multimedia journalists and interactive designers at washingtonpost.com.
Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.
The Aswan High Dam is the starting point for a 690-mile journey along the river, through Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.
Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.
In the 25 years of the epidemic, treatment has improved, but the issues of social isolation, and, often, economic instability remain.