• Inmates at Kirkham Prison have previously restored a boat for Donna's Dream House, a holiday home in Blackpool for seriously ill children.

    BBC: Inmates from Kirkham Prison to restore Blackpool trams

  • The vessel was carrying nearly three times its recommended limit of 74 passengers, including many indigenous tribal palm oil and timber workers returning to their home villages for a harvest festival holiday, said Bakar Sibau, a district police chief in Malaysia's Sarawak state.

    NPR: Ferry Capsizes In Malaysian River, 21 Missing

  • Assemblyman Dov Hikind wore an Afro wig, an orange jersey and had his face painted brown by a professional makeup artist for a weekend party celebrating the Jewish holiday at his home.

    CNN: N.Y. state lawmaker apologizes for blackface costume

  • Lee had just arrived at his grandparents' home in Sarnau for a week's holiday when the accident happened in February.

    BBC: Boy tells of cliff tragedy

  • If we want more people to be able to afford houses in the long-run, a two-year tax holiday for home-buyers isn't the way to do it.

    BBC: Viewpoint: 'Spend 4G cash on science'

  • The BBC's chief political correspondent, Norman Smith, said Treasury officials were trying to work out a definition of the rules surrounding eligibility for the mortgage guarantee scheme that allowed parents to buy a home for their children but not to buy a holiday home.

    BBC: Budget 2013: Row over 'second home subsidy'

  • There's always a buzz in Cleveland for the first home game, a date the locals have long treated like a national holiday.

    WSJ: Cleveland abuzz for Indians, Yankees opener

  • Lara Shriftman, publicist and party-giver extraordinaire (her line of party products is sold on the Home Shopping Network) throws a holiday party every year for Lulu Flynn, her 3-year-old miniature Shih Tzu, and Lulu's doggy pals, including actress Lara Flynn Boyle's Shih Tzu, Greta Garbo, and tennis champ Serena Williams' Jack Russell, Jackie.

    FORBES: How Celebrities Get Paid To Party

  • The expected popularity of home furnishings gifts this holiday would mark a reversal of fortunes for the consumer product category, which has generated tepid sales over the past few seasons, she said.

    FORBES: The Anti-American Dream Will Help Fuel Home Furnishings Sales This Holiday

  • And, as they phone home, holiday-makers might even mutter a word of thanks for the European Commission's work to force down outrageous mobile-roaming fees.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.

    WSJ: Companies Seek to Avoid China New Year Hangover

  • And on October 1, pirates made another cross-border raid, this time snatching a French woman in her 60s from the holiday home on Manda Island where she lived for part of the year.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • He plans to go on a holiday to Cancun, Mexico, for a few weeks before refurbishing his three bedroom home.

    BBC: George Traykov

  • It was a quiet week on the fiscal cliff front, with U.S. lawmakers back in their home districts for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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