The house is on a lake in central Mississippi near the backwater-flooded Yazoo River.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe, is also known as the "Hungarian Sea".

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The death toll in Saturday's boat disaster in the central reaches of Lake Malawi has reached 17.

BBC: Lake Malawi capsize kills 17

Lakeland Herdwick sheep were first recognised as a breed in the 1790s and are now bred on 120 hill farms in the central and western Lake District.

BBC: Protected status for Lakeland Herdwick sheep

After three days of Senate hearings on Anthony Lake's nomination to be the next director of central intelligence (DCI), a variation on the old adage "familiarity breeds contempt" seems at work: Senators' increasing familiarity with Tony Lake's contempt for Congress is breeding opposition to his controversial candidacy -- including, it would appear, among some expected to support it.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hearing takes a toll on Lake nomination

Meanwhile, in Jiangxi, water supplies "return to normal" after a fuel spill in Lake Poyang cut off tap water for 60, 000 residents, China Central Television reports.

BBC: China media: Egypt accident anger

Mr Brooks and Fiona Lake, one of his colleagues, have looked at annual foreign-exchange interventions by central banks in emerging Asian economies, tracking the pace at which they built up reserves by buying foreign currency.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Yesterday, Austrian-born winemaker Rudi Bauer of the esteemed winery Quartz Reef drove me up into the hills overlooking Lake Dunstan, which cuts a large swath through the middle of the massive eastern section of Central Otago.

FORBES: New Zealand Wine's Need For Nudity