Visitors often hear whispers and voices and feel icy cold fingers pressing on their necks and running down their spines.

BBC: Haunted Dublin

And more Americans -- like the woman I saw pressing the palm of her hand against cold glass in a detention center booth -- may not have the chance to touch their spouses again.

CNN: Do we want an America that wrecks families?

Because no single party won the majority of seats, the meetings held on May 7th instead addressed the more pressing question of how to form a government, leaving the union leaders out in the cold.

ECONOMIST: Testing schoolchildren