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City of Greater Sudbury officials were understandably enthused Monday to herald the arrival of five new family physicians to the community.
With at least 30,000 residents without a family doctor these days, there is a shortage of about two-dozen physicians in the city. So the five recruits unveiled Monday represent “a significant development,” Mayor John Rodriguez [...]

Broadcaster Dermot Murnaghan explains why Dingle Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, makes for perfect family holidays.
I love the west of Ireland, and Co Kerry in particular, which my family and I have been visiting every summer now for a few years and all think is absolutely idyllic.
What makes it so special? For a [...]

An AIDS patient involved in an awareness campaign has been banned from staying with his family by elders in his Murshidabad village.
Twenty-six-year-old Ananda Biswas’s wife, too, has been denied a job at the local health centre in Nabagram, about 230km from Calcutta, because of her husband’s illness.
Since May 28, Ananda (name changed) has been living [...]

IF change is as good as a holiday then why do my family holidays invariably end up in the same place? If we go overseas, we go to New York. If we go to the beach, we go to Rosedale on the NSW south coast. If we go camping, we go to Treachery on the [...]

Family Holidays A woman has given birth inside a toilet at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, her husband said this morning.
Kathy Patsidis’s baby was born at 4pm yesterday, after she was repeatedly told there were not enough staff at the hospital, her husband Nick Patsidis said on radio 2UE this morning.
The incident comes less than [...]

Family Holidays have three children. My will and my living trust state that everything goes to them. My son recently told me that he and his wife of eight years are separating. They are not getting a divorce. Is she entitled to half of my son’s inheritance when I pass away? My stocks and money [...]

By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - The mother of missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has made an emotional appeal for her daughter’s return on the eve of Mother’s Day.
“Mother’s Day is a day when every mum wants her children around them,” said Karen Matthews, 32. “I don’t want cards or presents, I [...]

Even though Room 157 has closed its doors, the impact it left on Ryan Norman’s life has been remarkable.
You wouldn’t know it looking at the 19-year-old Trenton native now, but his life was once heavily dominated by drugs, alcohol and gang violence.
“My life was rough. I was always getting turned away and my family didn’t [...]

By Peter Graff BAGHDAD, April 3 (Reuters) - The fighters came across the stinking creek and within hours they had overrun three Iraqi army checkpoints. U.S. forces rushed to help them regroup. The battle of Creek Road in Baghdad formed just a small part of the fight that raged for [...]

Thirty-one years later, my wife, Mary, and I were married in a church whose very name, Our Lady of Sorrows, seemed to emphasize the tribulations over the joys that awaited us. A family friend, a nun with connections, presented us with our own papal blessing, this time linking a wedding in suburban New Jersey [...]