A professional fraudster who lived a lavish lifestyle by swindling women and shoplifting has been jailed. Kevin Castle dressed in designer labels, hired luxury cars and ate at top restaurants despite being bankrupt.

Review of a novel set in Colma, California, a designated place of burial serving greater San Francisco, where 1,200 residents live among some two million graves.

The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago.

Salon’s advice columnist Cary Tennis gives his take on why we lie to those closest to us, and strategies for un-lying.

The story of a US writer who has spent nearly a decade collecting 'found notes'