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A Canadian couple do not want anyone to know whether their youngest child, named Storm, is a boy or a girl. "I am saying to the world, 'Please, can you just let Storm discover for him/herself what (s)he wants to be?'" says the child's mother, Kathy Witterick.

It's important to be honest about your weight — and the US government has finally realized this. The Federal Transit Administration, which issues safety requirements for city buses, says the increasing size of many Americans is a potential safety problem.

What's the secret to being happy? The New York Times and the Gallup polling organization say your chances are best if you belong to certain groups and make certain lifestyle choices. One man in the US combines the best such qualities. Find out who it is.

Flavor Flav of Public Enemy has opened his own fried-chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa. Wearing a clock around his neck while cooking, the performer stood at the stove and explained the difference between his recipe and others.

On the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, researchers found a pocketknife, bottles made in New Jersey and part of a mirror from a woman's make-up kit. The group also found three small bones, which it says may have been Earhart's.

Sotheby's auction house in London is famous for selling many of the world's most expensive works of art. Now it has sold the world's most expensive published book. The connection? The book itself is a work of art.

Eamonn Fitzgerald was content manager of Spotlight Online from 15 January 1999, when the site was first published, to 30 November 2010. We couldn't let him go without asking a few parting questions.

Britain has fewer public holidays than most European countries, but it has laws that allow the government to declare holidays to celebrate special occasions. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's wedding in 1981 was a public holiday.

Tavi Gevinson describes herself as a "tiny 13-year-old nerd that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats". Her Style Rookie blog has taken the fashion industry by storm and now she's getting ready to launch a teen magazine.