We are deep into fall, which means winter squash are all over restaurant menus, food blogs and probably your Instagram feed. Sweet and hearty, their orange and yellow flesh stars in soups and ravioli. They can be roasted to caramelized perfection. And — as many of us will appreciate on Thursday — they do just fine baked inside a flaky pie crust (indeed, canned pumpkin pie filling often contains squash).

BEIJING — A strong earthquake struck a remote part of western China overnight killing at least 118 people and injuring more than 500, the state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. The tremblor hit Jishishan County, in the southwestern part of Gansu province near the border with Qinghai province — a mountainous region populated, in part, by members of the Tibetan, Hui, Dongxiang and Salar ethnic groups. Xinhua said the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.

Podcasts > Education > Garden Success with Skip Richter is a call-in gardening show airing each Thursday from noon to 1:00pm on KAMU-FM. Skip, an extension specialist in horticulture sciences at Texas A&M University, serves as your garden consultant, answering questions to help you grow a bountiful garden and beautiful landscape in the Brazos Valley. Skip will give you time-saving tips, guide you to the best plants selections and provide proven pest management strategies including both conventional and organic techniques.

Amber Gill & Greg O'Shea: Split Sigh, this one stung. Don't you just hate it when the winning couple is one of the first ones to split? After getting together just weeks before the finale, with Greg being one of the last Islanders to join the villa, the fan-favorite pair managed to win season five. But they broke up just weeks later.  After some mild controversy and back and forth between the couple over how exactly the split went down (apparently Greg, a rugby player based in Ireland, ended it via text), Amber said on Loose Women, "

ShortcutsWildlifeWhat exactly caused the sad demise of one of Britain's most celebrated fish?The following corrections was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 6 August 2009. Benson the carp, a former resident of Bluebell Lakes, was a female fish and should not have been called "he" in the article below. Alas poor Benson. Born around 1984 and at times England's largest freshwater fish, this awe-inspiring carp has been found dead at his home at Bluebell Lakes near Peterborough.