At the Marriott in downtown Wichita, Johnny Williams watched over eight children -- in town for a basketball camp -- in a ballroom where they'd taken shelter.

CNN: April 16, 2012 -- Updated 0326 GMT (1126 HKT)

As a young man he entered local politics in his home-town, the modest former immigrant camp of Kiryat Malachi near Tel Aviv.

BBC: Profile: Moshe Katsav

Earlier in September, police in Minehead announced a new partnership with Butlins to tackle alcohol-related anti-social behaviour by holiday-makers leaving the camp to visit pubs and bars in the town.

BBC: Minehead Butlins

Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) started as a Roman military camp and grew into a town in the Byzantine era and continues into the Early Islamic period.

UNESCO: Office in Amman

In Wana, a two-road town 40km from the Afghan border, surrounded by orchards and a vast FC camp, Syed Shahab Ali Shah explains the system that he runs.

ECONOMIST: Waziristan