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Apot of pheasant stock is simmering in Eric Akis's kitchen - a sign that everything is as it should be. "I always say nothing's better than a house with a pot of soup cooking on the stove or something in the oven," the food writer says.

Can scientists create gluten-free wheat plants to make bread with? Writing in the journal PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists concludes that it's quite possible.

Holiday reading a great tradition for families

A Swazi Member of Parliament has urged the government to hike taxes on traditional healers and soothsayers to help solve a funding crisis in Africa's last absolute monarchy.

A merry little Christmas with Michael Bublé >C9

PREPARED BY LARA RIECKEN, CHILDREN'S MATERIALS SELECTOR 1. Dream Snow, by Eric Carle (Philomel/Penguin) Ages 2-7 "Soon he dreamed of falling snowflakes." A modern Christmas picture-book classic featuring Eric Carle's whimsical collage illustrations.

Attention, wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple. For a mere $1.

Winter is descending on the Shakur clan. In the pale grey twilight of late autumn, a sharp wind slaps at the scraps of plastic that Abdel Shakur, the clan patriarch, has installed on his mud hut walls in a futile attempt at insulation.

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'Awarning - don't go there" was the advice given Twitter addicts, who can sometimes be careless as they gossip over their cyberspace back fence. It was issued by the U.K.