Maybe somebody spiked the D.C. water system with pixie dust. Or maybe we’re all aching for some happily-ever-after closure as an escape from the open-ended chaos that is current public discourse. Or maybe we’ve just got a cosmic coincidence on our hands, because Washington theaters are offering five — count ’em, five — fairy-tale shows for families. Read full article > >

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Fairy tales for audiences — and theaters — that seek happy endings

WAU, South Sudan — Teresa Adut Akol’s new home is a small patch of concrete floor in a railway station outside this town. She shares the space with her eight children and stacks of their belongings, surrounded by dozens of other families whose return to South Sudan also has stalled here. Read full article > >

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Many South Sudanese unable to return home

Dai Greene is one of several British Olympic athletes to receive extra London 2012 tickets for their families thanks to help from sports fans.

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Fans help Greene buy 2012 tickets

Four million families in the UK experience regular conflict and violence in the home, a report for a charity suggests.

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Four million families ‘fighting’

The families of 16 Afghan villagers killed this month by a rampaging American soldier were given $50,000 by the United States for each of their slain relatives, Afghan and American officials said.

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U.S. Compensates Afghan Villagers for Soldier’s Attack

The families of Afghan civilians allegedly killed in a shooting spree by a US soldier have received compensation, the BBC understands.

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Afghan massacre families ‘payout’

Across the country, near-record numbers of displaced families are pouring home, but instead of kindling a much-needed reconciliation they are reviving resentments and suspicions.

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As the Displaced Return to Iraq, New Tensions Arise

Schools are ‘too often asked to make up for much wider failings within families and communities’, Ofsted chief inspector says.

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Schools ‘required to fill vacuum’

Beginning in 1998, Builder magazine has presented a Concept House at the annual International Builders Show, each one based on a theme intended to shake the home builders out of their “same old, same old” risk-averse complacency and try something new. Read full article > >

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Home designs target non-traditional families

IF RICK SANTORUM were right about what’s going on in America, his angry lectures and reproofs would be comprehensible. “Rick understands that our freedom to practice our faith is not just under attack through the redefinition of marriage, but in nearly every facet of the popular culture,” his campaign Web site explains . Mr. Santorum “almost threw up” when he read John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech on the separation of church and state because, Mr. Santorum told ABC’s “ This Week ,” Kennedy was arguing that “faith is not allowed in the public square.” He sees in the country, as he told Fox News , “a war on people of faith — particularly the Catholic faith.” Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Rick Santorum shows he’s the wrong man to be president

CHARLOTTESVILLE — George Huguely V’s Wednesday conviction for second-degree murder brought to an end an emotional two-week trial that deeply touched two families, but also reached into the University of Virginia community. Read full article > >

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After George Huguely convicted, Yeardley Love’s family speaks: ’Heaven has an angel like no other’

As Germans mourn neo-Nazi murder victims, Chancellor Angela Merkel appeals to their families for forgiveness.

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Merkel sorry for neo-Nazi outrage

Low income families with parents in part-time work could lose about £4,000 a year because of a change in tax credits, Labour says.

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Tax change ‘to cost families £4k’

A study suggests a quarter of today’s UK children are living in families with two or more risk factors to their educational development.

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Education ‘risk factors’ listed

In a society where headlines of violence are almost commonplace, the families of the perpetrators are largely unheard from. But now some relatives have decided to share their stories.

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Killers’ Families Left to Confront Fear and Shame