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Katie Engelhart

Katie Engelhart is a London-based writer and reporter. She covers European goings-on for Maclean’s.

Granny nannies

This new class of caregiver is booming, and quite unregulated

Taking on the mob

A crackdown in Italy has netted 17 of the 30 most-wanted fugitives

Newsmakers ’09: Lingo

Kate Gosselin’s hair cut got its own phrase, as did Michelle Obama’s pipes

Holland’s anti-Islamic firebrand

He wants to ban the Quran. He’s also leading in the polls.

Same-sex couples fight to adopt

In France, gay couples are not allowed to adopt children

Behold! The lamb of Alberta.

Beef prices are falling, but lamb prices remain high

Coming now to a TV near you

The future of local programming is on-demand, all the time

Hawaii starts ’Furlough Fridays’

The state’s public schools are now on a four-days-a-week schedule

Where will P.E.I. Muslims go to pray?

Muslims want the government to help fund a mosque for the Island

’The last great Nazi trial’

John Demjanjuk’s trial in Munich may mark the end of an era