The famous novelist talks to America about the flooding of New Orleans in an NYT commentary.

Novelist Mark Childress, a part-time resident of the Big Easy, names off some of the great things about New Orleans. Here's a few:

After a night that saw 12 more people die in a Paris-area apartment fire, here's some excerpts from a BBC Online story about Paris's dilapidated housing stock.

The writer, Caroline Wyatt, is talking about Fofanna Satou and her husband, immigrants from the Ivory Coast and living in a ostensibly desirable district in Paris:

Rex Murphy, who I believe is a CBC contract employee, talks about the lockout. He's not on side with management.