Life

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.

The American Psychiatric Association plans to include nail-biting as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder - also known as OCD - in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual revision for 2013.

Your memory of small servings can make you feel more hungry

Today's officers are a high-tech contrast to the lightly equipped beat cops of old; From nightsticks and a revolver to Tasers and the latest communications

As Victoria has grown, so have the capabilities of the people who keep the community safe. These are some of the many ways the Victoria Police Department does its job

The grimmest of news arrived with my e and bacon last week: My wife's sister, the dreaded Pearl, would be foisting herself onto our perfect world for no less than two weeks beginning this weekend.

The Celebration of Lights parade brings out the crowds every year

Late one night, a retired sea captain had a vision. Edward Arthur Wilson, a 46-year-old Englishman, had retired to the south of France in 1924. In the course of his life, he had travelled the world widely and had studied many traditions.