Family News Home

IT IS around this time of year that the family hatchback starts to look a bit small for the annual motoring holiday. Her Majesty’s Press are not immune. They are human. Suddenly an MPV seems so sensible. Hyundai, being proactive, has put on a fleet of 20 brand new eight-seater i800 models for media holiday [...]

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 [...]

Holiday park operator Haven has revealed a huge increase in the number of people booking UK holidays this year due to a combination of the strong Euro and surging oil prices that have made European breaks much more expensive.
Hemel Hempstead, UK (PRWEB) May 22, 2008 — With the price of oil breaking records on both [...]

As the presidential campaign debate over health care intensified, I heard from seven different friends with the same problem: They had loved ones who had recently moved and, like many others across the U.S., could not find a primary care doctor. Three were in Washington where, according to 2006 data from the Department of Health, [...]

Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers have said that thousands will die if emergency supplies don’t get through soon.
Buddhist temples and schools on the outskirts of the storm’s trail of destruction are now makeshift refugee centers.
The UN humanitarian agency said [...]

Fifteen years ago, you almost couldn’t give a condo away. Now some people line up overnight to buy them. Partly that’s because of a housing market so hot that getting your foot in the proverbial door no longer means a derelict semi, but a pint-sized condo. But another reason is the condo lifestyle, which [...]

Michelle and David Huck know well the promise and peril of adopting from Africa.The Calgary couple’s first attempt began smoothly: A Canadian adoption agency newly licensed to work in Sierra Leone matched them with orphaned siblings - Amie, 3, and her one-year-old brother, Sorie. For a year, the Hucks filled out paperwork, prepared a bedroom [...]

(The following statement was released by the ratings agency)
March 19 - Moody’s Investors Service affirmed Enterprise Products Operating
LLC’s (EPO) Baa3 senior unsecured rating and changed its rating outlook to
stable from negative. EPO is the primary operating subsidiary of Enterprise
Products Partners LP (Enterprise or EPD) and issues substantially all of
Enterprise’s [...]

Montreal producer Martin Bolduc was in Las Vegas in June 2006 when got a phone call from Paul McCartney’s publicist, telling him the former Beatle was available for an interview.
It was an opportunity that Bolduc and Montreal director Adrian Wills had been praying for during the shooting of “All Together Now,” a documentary on the [...]

By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN, April 1 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast slashed taxes on key food imports on Tuesday, bowing to protests by housewives and youths in which residents said one young man was killed. Protesters blocked roads with barricades and burning tyres for a second day as violent demonstrations over [...]