Vacant U.S. Homes Stats: The U.S. Has Room for all of U.K.

In Australia, according to recent release of 2006 census figures, there are 100,000 homeless, but that figure will have multiplied many fold since 2006. The Australian government has allocated millions to reduce homelessness to 50% by 2020, but that initiative hasn't been...

Families Downed by Foreclosures Living in Motels

About 1,000 families in Orange County, California have been living in motels, many of whom have been forced out of their homes after going into foreclosures. Local officials said it is possible these families...

Vancouver Island Conference Centre Nanaimo Canada

The Vancouver Island Conference Center in downtown Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, is an exciting new venue for meetings, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, receptions, and other events. Just completed, the...

USA Today: 10 000 Families lose their home every day since August

Massachusetts homeless families living in motels up from 17 to 550 in one Year Families living in Motels, individuals under the bridge, many in tents, the new homeless economy: The loser has to pay, the winner is...

Thai police crack down on teen sex

One of the many weird things about this story is that they're polling teens on Valentine's Day sexual habits in the first place.  Also that they've identified parks, restaurants, and malls as "starting...

Booking with Discounts of Hotels in Berlin

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Big Ice in Big Texas

Texas has been hit by severe weather; including freezing rain, and ice storms (two stories at the bottom), closing highways, grounding flights, stranding commuters, and causing power outages across Central &...

Selling sex gets deadly

"ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The streets of this gambling capital have become more dangerous for prostitutes -- with a serial killer on the loose and several streetwalkers having been strangled, smothered, slashed and set ablaze. So far this year, six prostitutes are...

South Korea's answer: Sex

"Condom sales and bookings at several of South Korea's pay-by-the-hour "love motels" surged after North Korea's nuclear test, according to statistics released on Thursday. South Koreans are used to living in the shadow of war, and life has continued as normal across the...

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