Tokyo A man police said was on a murder mission ploughed into pedestrians with a truck in a crowded Tokyo neighbourhood yesterday and then stabbed 17 people in three minutes, killing at least seven.

Rising gas prices, escalating food prices and a society moving away from cash transactions create a pressing need for children to understand the value of money and saving, banking experts say.

Last week a woman in Louisville, Ky., was walking through a shopping center with her children when what should come drifting down from the sky and plummet right in front of them but a small bundle of helium balloons like you find at the grocery.

KITTERY, Maine - If you think the way I once did, you associate Kittery with shopping. Period. You might even avoid the place because of that, as I did for many years.

ESCONDIDO --- Boys and girls from Palomar Family YMCA looked a little like Santa's elves Thursday morning when they pitched in to make teddy bears for foster children at the new Build-a-Bear Workshop at Westfield North County shopping center in Escon