Life

WASHINGTON - The horse meat scandal that is hitting Europe has yet to spread to the United States, allowing American consumers to rest easier when buying ground beef or sitting down for a plate of meatballs at Ikea.

Elderly couple have no plans to retire as long as they can manage the stairs between home and work

TORONTO - The melodious voices of a Canadian student chorus will soon be lifted in song for the next leader of the Catholic Church. Some 187 students from Toronto's St.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Georgia's got the peach, Maine's got the whoopie pie and now Rhode Island wants to claim calamari as an official state food: Specifically, its signature appetizer. The legislation filed this week by state Rep.

DETROIT - The speedometer on the Toyota Yaris says the tiny car can go 140 miles per hour. In reality, the bulbous subcompact's 106-horsepower engine and automatic transmission can't push it any faster than 109.

LONDON - If dresses could talk, this dark navy, figure-hugging velvet number would have the best stories to tell.

CHICAGO - Imagine students learning their ABCs while dancing, or memorizing multiplication tables while doing jumping jacks.

SALT LAKE CITY - Wine spritzers are a summer favourite at Rovali's near Salt Lake City.

Our dogs are often as fat as we are, according to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention. Family cats can look like furry ottomans. At Tufts University, they've set up an obesity clinic at the vet school. It's time to get our pets up and at 'em.

We focus so much energy turning a house into a home, we sometimes forget to aim our decorating genius in another notable direction: the office cubicle. Home often expresses who we are, filled as it is with accumulated treasures and trinkets.