I should point out that “Heidi” is a novel more or less in the realist tradition, though it reaches an enchanted climax that I’ll go ahead and spoil for you: Clara, the disabled cousin in Frankfurt, ...

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In Melbourne-set "The Burrow," a grieving family hopes a pet rabbit, named for a character in Richard Adams' "Watership Down," can help ease their pain.

Underwhelming stimulus from Beijing has done little to pump the Australian shares as the Chinese building market drags down the local resources sector.

Record-breaking floods in Spain, violent storms in Florida and wildfires in South America – these are just a few examples of the extreme weather events accelerating and intensifying across the world.