Olney Central College and Youth for Understanding are seeking host families for nine international students who will be studying at OCC during the 2008-2009 school year.

could replace online shopping as a favourite pastime as the credit crunch bites down hard on family finances. Swap sites could even take on the mighty eBay, if customers lose faith with the internet auctioneer.

When Grand Theft Auto III was released all the way back in 2001, it changed the way that the world saw video games. It offered a simulated microcosm of life, a parody of American culture, which could be explored and exploited on the whims of the player.

If Southern California's economy is on the sickbed, as most professional analysts say, it wasn't immediately apparent in the predawn darkness on Friday, the first day of the holiday shopping season.

Mall rats are young people who spend a lot of time hanging around in shopping malls with their friends. - Collins English Dictionary These are the real mall rats.