Dorothee Imbert, associate professor in landscape architecture at Harvard, pointed to urban farming, a trend that has taken root in Detroit, New York, Milwaukee and a handful of international cities.

Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu, who was at the site of the tragedy, said 97 bodies would be placed in coffins and taken to Moscow's Domodedovo airport.

William Boot demanded of the Daily Beast’s foreign editor on being invited to report on an African civil war in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s immortal 1938 comic novel of journalism.