Who can forget George Gershwin’s memorable song “Summertime and the Living is Easy”? Summers meant picnics in the park, vacations, camping, lounging at the pool, jumping in the lake and reading ...

Families flying abroad for their summer holidays saw plane ticket costs surge by nearly a third in just one month in the biggest such increase on record. Air fares soared by 30.2 per cent between June ...

Contrary to a widely held perception, public school summer vacations are not getting shorter. And that’s a shame. Despite some movement toward “balanced schedules” that include more breaks during the ...