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FUEL prices are keeping Melbourne families close to home, as nearby attractions start to feel the pinch but more distant getaways are suffering severely.
The weekend away with the family is rapidly becoming a pleasure of the past as pump prices continue to climb, unless the destination is within a two-hour drive.
RACV fuel price spokesman David [...]

Spain and its archipelagos of the Canary Islands and the Balearics are among the best destinations in Europe for accommodation for cheap family holidays, according to research.
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel community, polled 2,400 of its members about cheap family holidays and the results suggested that eight out of the top ten accommodation options are [...]

Name: Roxana SalehiAge: 30Program: Third-year PhD candidate at York University in faculty of environmental studies.Thesis: Toronto sexual health services and newcomer youth: what does an effective sexual health strategy look like for this group?The project: Salehi is working with groups, such as Planned Parenthood Toronto, on a community-based public health project that surveys immigrant teens [...]

Take a cold, hard look at your kitchen. If it’s actually cold and hard, it could be messing up your kids’ relationship with food and cooking, according to new research.
But if it has a well-used kitchen table in it, you’re on the right track, says Jordan LeBel, a professor at Cornell University’s school of [...]

Over the past 50 years, the London literary world has been split along similar lines. For a reclusive literary ascetic with patrician attitudes and a Miltonic sense of destiny, Naipaul has maintained a consistently high gossip quotient, trading public provocation and personal insults, pursuing and pursued to this day by private vendettas vigorously conducted in [...]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Grammy-winning Tejano music star Emilio
Navaira may not survive severe brain injuries from a Sunday
morning bus crash, the neurosurgeon overseeing his treatment
said on Monday.
Navaira underwent two hours of emergency surgery to relieve
a large blood clot on the surface of his brain underneath the
skull, and he has been [...]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Grammy-winning Tejano music star Emilio
Navaira may not survive severe brain injuries from a Sunday
morning bus crash, the neurosurgeon overseeing his treatment
said on Monday.
Navaira underwent two hours of emergency surgery to relieve
a large blood clot on the surface of his brain underneath the
skull, and he has been [...]

VANCOUVER %26#151; Blair Kovacs recently sold a full suite of tiny video cameras embedded into shaving-cream canisters, bedside radio alarm clocks and other household items to a man who suspected his wife was having an extramarital affair.
The man told Mr. Kovacs he and his wife were taking a trip to their cottage, and he wanted [...]

History will record June 2, 2006 as the day when police arrested members of what they claimed was Canada’s first homegrown Islamic terrorist conspiracy. But in a modest middle-class section of Oakville, Rukhsana Gaya – then a department store cosmetics manager – remembers that day as the moment her family’s life was shattered.%26quot;The phone rang [...]

Group Therapy is a relationship advice column that asks readers to contribute their wisdom. Each week, we offer up a problem for you to weigh in on, then publish the most lively responses, with a final word on the matter delivered by our columnist, Claudia Dey.
A reader writes: During a summer internship I started a [...]