Each year, in the UK, at least 75,000 youngsters experience homelessness. One in three attempt suicide - sometimes successfully. And one in seven are physically or sexually assaulted.
Tomorrow, folks in England will be joining people...
We spent two weeks in Denmark in August 2009. One week in Copenhagen, the rightly named Paris of the North, and then a week visiting the Lake District around Silkeborg and the Odden peninsula.
Why go?
Denmark...
The 11-hour overnight bus ride into Shenzhen was our last memory of China. Different from the trains in several ways, and a nice transition between China and Hong Kong.
Sleeper bus to Shenzhen
Not surprisingly, the...
Every year, San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair draws a massive crowd, so much so that depending on the time of day, it's almost as packed as Mardi Gras.
What I didn't know, despite the fact that...
I’m taking the San Francisco Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge – trying to feed my husband (the Bottomless Pit) and myself for just $4 each per day. And, newsflash! Thanks to thousands who twittered these hunger...
(Reuters) - South Africa appears to have softened its stance on carbon emissions, saying on Wednesday it would support cuts to prevent global warming.
The apparent change comes against the backdrop of international meetings designed to...
Nanjing: When I think about my reasons for brazenly rejecting an escort from Shanghai’s international airport to my new residence in Nanjing, they don’t seem so sound anymore. At least, that was the repentant notion...
Taken from The Times Column on September 7, 2009 - written by South African writer Toby Shapshak.
In the end it was a silly mistake that saw the Berlin Wall ripped down. Under pressure, the East...
