Dr. Uma Naidoo, a nutritional psychiatrist, says the sugar found in many comfort foods hits our brains in the same pleasure center as street drugs do. But that's not the only reason we find comfort in such treasured dishes; there is also warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia.

The Ursid meteor shower comes from debris from the Tuttle comet.

(Bloomberg) -- Two liquefied natural gas tankers from Qatar in the Persian Gulf have switched to Pakistan as their next destinations after appearing to abort an earlier attempt to leave via the Strait of Hormuz.The Al Daayen and Rasheeda had u-turned away from the strait after earlier heading eastward to the waterway, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg, in the first attempt to export the fuels from the Persian Gulf since the Iran war began. They had each loaded LNG from Qatar’