Dividing community labor between soldiers, workers and reproducers, termites sustain themselves by attacking and ingesting wood. Because wood is one of the most widely used building materials, it’s ...

Clearing shelves in a small section of my extensive library, I found quite a few that I had not read, placed there when I was ...

When Lettice, my miniature sausage dog, rudely awoke me in my rented Cotswolds cottage a few weeks ago by leaping off my bed like a demented flying fox, I had no idea of what was to come. She spent ...

I live in a seventeenth-century semi-detached house which used to be one large farm house. My main bedroom has two front-facing windows, but one of the windows is bricked up, and has been ever since I ...

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WITH WHAT SHE HAS LEARNED ABOUT THIS. MARCY, WE KNOW COLUMBIA GAS, THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION AND THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE FIRE MARSHAL HAVE BEEN ON SCENE TRYING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THIS ...

The South African Police Service’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks, raided the home of a TikTok comedian over a satirical video involving police minister Senzo ...

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Elizabeth Thorneycroft saved more than 20 cats from last month’s blaze in Malia. In its aftermath, she initially managed to feed them partly with donated animal food, but now supplies have dried up.

This letter may interest folks in disaster zones. My parents set up a trust. Their house was supposed to go to one sibling, “Bob.” The cash in their checking account was to be split between the two ...

On the outside, mine is much like any other middle-class family home. Inside, it’s a very different story. Just going up the stairs in my jam-packed Cambridge house is like navigating an SAS assault ...