Linda, 15, lives with her mum and dad — at least she thinks they’re her mum and dad — in the rundown cabins of an abandoned commune, in the icy, forested, lakeside wilds of northern Minnesota.

A JAUNDICED, perhaps jaded, or merely insightful Irish town planner once remarked that Irish house hunters were easily pleased.

The annual pet and owner look-a-like competition has taken place in Tokyo.