She's a permanent fixture in the kitchen, always ready with a cup of mint tea and the latest gossip about the crazy woman next door.

WSJ: Magic-Carpet-Ride Chermoula

One day, I met a woman who had lived next door to us when I was married, and we got talking.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | 'His anger killed my dog'

It was your columnist's next-door neighbour, a woman of mild temperament, uncharacteristically a-quiver on this occasion with moral indignation.

ECONOMIST: The end of foxhunting

Menierva, a woman who sells pizzas at her front door next to the ministry on Havana's Calle Obispo, said that her sales were rising.

ECONOMIST: Cuba's economy

The woman said she knocked on the door of the chalet next door, which she mistakenly thought was her own.

BBC: Scotland