Jennifer Carol Wilbanks, forever immortalized as the real life runaway bride, made headlines in 2005 when she vanished from Duluth, Georgia – just days before her 600-person wedding – and again when ...

A wedding video meant to show a lighthearted surprise moment has sparked arguments about whether some old traditions have had their time and become something uncomfortable in modern society. The clip ...

Sports journalist Gulzhan Turdubayeva still cries when she thinks about the day she was kidnapped, taken to the home of an unknown man and told she would marry him. “He was quite short. Apart from ...

Inside a nomadic yurt pitched next to her family home in northern Kyrgyzstan a young woman’s female relatives sob loudly in a traditional ceremony marking 40 days since her death. “She was my youngest ...