Patricia O’Brien’s sixth novel was rejected 13 times. Then she used a pen name, and a publisher loved it.
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Patricia O’Brien (as Kate Alcott) Sells ‘The Dressmaker’
For years, family members trying to call Arlington National Cemetery to make funeral arrangements often heard the phone ring. And ring and ring. If no one answered, there was no way to leave a message. That’s because the cemetery didn’t have a voice-mail system that helped families schedule funerals. As a result, families unable to reach someone at the nation’s premier military burial ground may have given up on Arlington Cemetery and had their loved ones buried elsewhere, according to a new report by the Army’s inspector general . Read full article > >
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Arlington Cemetery lacked voice mail for veterans’ families
Relatives of murder victims Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan tell of the pain of believing for years that their loved ones had killed themselves.
Priest tells mourners at funeral of Pat Cullinan, who died in the Cork air crash that it was a dreadful accident which had left six families bereft of their loved ones.
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Funeral of Cork air crash victim
A New York zoo offers a Valentine’s gift for Americans who have caught the love bug: a chance to name a cockroach after their loved ones.
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Zoo offers chance to name your own love bug
In the Brazilian city of Teresopolis, relatives are beginning to bury their loved ones who were victims of the severe flooding in the area.
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Brazil begins to bury flood victims
Letter in response to Andrea Wulf’s review of “The Women Jefferson Loved,” by Virginia Scharff.
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Letters: Jefferson’s Veiled World
Letter in response to Andrea Wulf’s review of “The Women Jefferson Loved,” by Virginia Scharff.
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Letters: Jefferson’s Veiled World
British troops are spending a 10th Christmas in Afghanistan, far from their loved ones.
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Christmas in Afghanistan for troops
The question of what might have been haunts the loved ones of fallen soldiers.
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On Veterans Day, recalling dreams sacrificed
Dargahi Mirani is typically a fisherman by trade, but in the midst of devastating floods in Pakistan, local villagers have been turning to him not for his daily catch, but for help in retrieving their loved ones’ bodies from the floodwaters.
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A time to mourn in Pakistan
Grieving families are being forced to wait years for inquests into the death of their loved ones because of continuing delays to reforms of the coroners’ service, a BBC investigation finds.
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Coroners review delaying inquests
