House-builders and employers are pressing for more houses, and the over-heating housing market seems to support their case.

ECONOMIST: The south-east

Until now, emergency workers have been dowsing the over-heating reactors with seawater.

FORBES: Fukushima Update: It Could Be Worse - Really

Whether it succeeds in cooling an over-heating market remains to be seen.

WSJ: There's a Feeling of Instability Bubbling Up

Joining the single currency at the start, for example, would probably mean exposing Britain to far lower interest rates at a time when there may be a serious danger of over-heating.

ECONOMIST: European monetary union

Fights over new firearms laws are also heating up in Connecticut, where gun-rights supporters have come out in force against new restrictions, and in New Jersey, where the Legislature is slated to take up 24 bills address guns on Wednesday.

WSJ: Pro-Gun Rally Hits Cuomo

The fire service says candles, cigarettes, objects left to close too fires, pans over heating and a high number of student houses with no smoke alarm - or no battery in the alarm - are often to blame for fire outbreaks.

BBC: Fire service condoms for students

The glaze is applied to a fired stoneware vessel, which is then fired again in a repeated cycle of six stages of heating and cooling where precise temperatures matter a great deal: either over- or under-firing will spoil the effect.

UNESCO: Culture

Rather than intervening in the market to manipulate prices, the government could respond to a winter fuel crisis by giving all its heating-oil subsidies to poor consumers (though that would do nothing to win over other voters).

ECONOMIST: Cutting the oil price