Women were fonder of weddings: they accounted for roughly two-thirds of the civil unions.

ECONOMIST: The wedding waltz

There may also be something in the adage absence makes the heart grow fonder.

BBC: Are there places more British than the UK?

The right is growing fonder of Iain Duncan-Smith, the party's defence spokesman, another Eurosceptic but unencumbered by Mr Portillo's complicated baggage or the battiness of Ann Widdecombe.

ECONOMIST: He who hesitates laughs last?

One entrepreneur has begun a pet-cloning business to cater to a growing number of Japanese women who are fonder of their cat or dog than their man.

ECONOMIST: Entrepreneurship

Maybe it's true that absence makes the heart grow fonder.

CNN: Fleetwood Mac's 35 years of 'Rumours'

Yves Picot has other, fonder memories from those days.

WSJ: Onion Soup and Old New York