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• A Look Inside the Factory Where Bugatti Creates Its Custom Dream Machines

  03-12-2016 23:00
  
  Bugatti Chiron
  The marque’s Molsheim assembly plant is where every new Bugatti is personalized and thoroughly tested…Basem Wasef
  
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• Volvo’s S90 Flagship Sedan Shows the Brand’s Commitment to Keeping You Safe

  03-12-2016 19:00
  
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  The goal is to eliminate all serious or fatal injuries by 2020…
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• Incredible New Titanium Jewelry from Vhernier

  03-12-2016 17:00
  
  Known for its sculptural gold jewelry, Vhernier ventures into titanium
  Italian jewelry house Vhernier calls on seasoned artisans to craft gorgeous new titanium designs…Jill Newman
  
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• Jenni Murray: 'I want to see how women run the world'

  03-12-2016 15:00
  
  The broadcaster, 66, on body clocks, longevity and the secret to a happy relationshipYour body clock is set to the time you were born. It’s a theory I heard years ago. I was born at 10pm and tend to be more alert late in the evening. Getting up at 5.30am for work is absolutely not natural to me.I refuse to even acknowledge that retirement is a word. Shirley Williams and Baroness Mary Warnock are in their 80s and 90s, and when I met them a few years ago they had brains like razors. That&rsq
  
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• A Sculptural, Simple Prefab Home in Sweden

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  Think low-cost homes are boring and lacking inspiration? Think again! The Happy Cheap prototype for inexpensive prefab homes proves that affordable home design can look attractive and use space wisely. Not only that, but they can be integrated beautifully into the landscape. Created by Swedish architect Tommy Carlsson, this low-cost prefab home is located in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.The Happy Cheap prototype assembles quickly on site. This particular home spreads over&nb
  
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• What to do in the garden this winter

  03-12-2016 12:00
  
  Don’t let the cold keep you indoors: there’s plenty to do outside, from planting pots to helping hedgehogs – just follow our checklist
  Now that winter is here, garden writing veers from celebrations of autumn to gloom and doom – all that talk of “battening down the hatches” and “tucking in the garden”. Yet there’s still much to do and enjoy. Whenever Christopher Lloyd, the great plantsman of Great Dixter garden and former Guardian columnist,
  
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• Plant of the week: beautyberry

  03-12-2016 12:00
  
  OK, it’s nothing special for half of the year – but, oh, those marvellous berriesWhat is it? Outside its peak season, the beautyberry (aka callicarpa) is an unremarkable – OK, boring – hardy deciduous shrub. But in late autumn and winter it puts on a show of what Monty Don has called “the most astonishing berries in the whole of the plant world”. They persist long after the leaves have fallen, shining like clusters of amethysts throughout winter until the bird
  
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• Osteria Francescana: does the world’s best restaurant live up to the hype?

  03-12-2016 12:00
  
  Tanya Gold goes very, very fine dining in Modena, ItalyThe entrance is a glass door in a pink wall on a cobbled street. A brass plate with the outline of a chicken is pinned to the wall; for some reason, I like this chicken. It comforts me, for chickens are normal.This is Osteria Francescana, which this year was named number one in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. In 2015, it was second; it has been in the top five since 2011. It won its third Michelin star in 2012. It is also, acco
  
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• Felicity Cloake's top 10 Christmas cooking cheats – recipes

  03-12-2016 11:00
  
  Can’t face a lot of last-minute, late-night cooking? Then use these shortcuts, from an easy Scandi smörgåsbord to perfect mince piesThe annual panic over Christmas dinner is largely a matter of timing – after all, it’s only a big roast. Get as much as possible done beforehand. Things such as mincemeat and Christmas puddings actually benefit from as much maturing as you can throw at them, while homemade cranberry sauce will keep for months in the fridge. Bread sauce c
  
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• John Simpson: ‘Most embarrassing moment? Revealing my bright blue underpants in front of the Queen’

  03-12-2016 10:30
  
  The journalist on his happiest moment, saying sorry to his mother and his fascination with roguesBorn in Lancashire, John Simpson, 72, studied at Cambridge University. He joined the BBC in 1970, and became an award-winning foreign correspondent; he is currently world affairs editor. In 2001, he famously donned a burqa and became the first reporter to broadcast from Taliban-held Afghanistan. His latest book is We Chose To Speak Of War And Strife. He is married for the second time, has three child
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s sweet treats for the Christmas table – recipes

  03-12-2016 10:00
  
  Four brilliant bakes to make the home cook the star of the show this Christmas, from festive biscuits to celebratory puddings
  Christmas is a time for the cook of the house to push the boat out, but not so much that you end up so stressed and exhausted that you don’t have the energy to enjoy the celebrations. This applies to bakes and puddings as much as to the roast turkey and all the rest: the trick is to mix easy and quick (well, easy- and quick-ish) dishes with more elaborate ones, leav
  
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• The experts’ guide to a great British cheeseboard

  03-12-2016 10:00
  
  From brilliant blues to melting bries, British cheesemakers are now outperforming the FrenchYou have to have a cheeseboard at Christmas. It’s the law, along with turkey, sherry and sprouts, even if you don’t like them. But no one expects you to put much effort into it; days before Santa’s due, many of us reach for a supermarket selection. “Stilton?” we say, squinting at the packaging. “Check. Cheddar? Check. Something grey that might be brie? That’ll do.
  
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• Beauty: the best bath products | Sali Hughes

  03-12-2016 09:00
  
  My proclivity for a bath has evolved from habit to addiction in response to this godawful yearAs much as I could do without more talk of Danish hygge, the marketing phenomenon of selling back to British people what they already do exceptionally well – bugger all while the weather is foul – I can see why the concept is especially appealing now. When the US elects a rabble-rousing bigot as president, Britain decides to leave the EU, and cultural heroes are falling like skittles, it&rsq
  
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• Modern tribes: the media boycotter

  03-12-2016 08:59
  
  I couldn’t live with myself if I agreed to go out with someone who read the Sun or the Fail or the Express or TelegraphThanks – wait, what make are these, bleah, yeurgh, sorry to spit, but you know Walkers advertise in the Fail, I can’t eat them on principle. Course I’ve never bought it, since when do you have to buy something to boycott it, but I’ve deleted the app, I’m totally not clicking on links and anyone who advertises there, forget it, that’
  
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• What links hedgehogs, dormice and bats? The Weekend quiz

  03-12-2016 08:00
  
  From a billy goat to Isaiah Berlin, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who overcame the Curse of the Billy Goat?2 Which place name is on the Royal Marines’ cap badge?3 Where did Aunt Ada Doom get a nasty shock?4 Who married on 29 April 1945 and died the next day?5 What type of cell can be embryonic or adult, from bone marrow?6 Which currency was proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto?7 What was proved by discoveries at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland?8 Alan Steadman from Dunde
  
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• Is it worth buying a soundbar for my TV?

  03-12-2016 07:59
  
  I’m after one that’s easy to set up and not too priceyEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• It’s the children’s first Christmas without their mum

  03-12-2016 07:45
  
  Planning to make it as good as it can be has banished my worries about redundancyI absolutely bloody love Christmas. I really do. Presents, pantomimes, tinsel and trees, every ritual fills me with elf-like glee. So people moan about the commercialisation, blah blah blah, but it’s CHRISTMAS!!! Helen loved it even more. Having Millie and Matt allowed us to rekindle childhood delight that had never much dimmed.Even with this backstory, I am shocked when two days before Halloween Matt chirps,
  
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• Bananas are great -- until one tries to kill you

  03-12-2016 07:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  I do not wish to alarm anyone, but I woke up this morning with some serious concerns about the humble banana.It seems bright yellow bananas have been lighting up the Internet lately, with bunches of upbeat news reports praising the health benefits of one of the world’s most widely...
  
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• We all need a little sparkle

  03-12-2016 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The one thing I really love about the holiday season is all the glitz and glam. People take a little more time to primp and prime; they don’t hesitate to sport red lips during the day and wearing a sparkly frock anytime is pretty much OK for the entire month — even at the
  
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• A letter to … My mother, who hit me when I was a child

  03-12-2016 07:30
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI know you are doing everything you can to be a good mother to me and a kind grandmother to my children. Birthday cards, gifts, phone calls to check if everything is OK if you haven’t heard from me for a while. Years and years of love and attention, and yet I can’t forgive you for hitting me when I was a child.I was 11. During the school holidays, you had left my toddler brother and me at your mother’s so you could go to work. Our grandmothe
  
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• Why I love… Michelle Obama

  03-12-2016 07:00
  
  I watched an arena of people swoon over her. It was difficult not to join themAt school, I was a prefect. I am a goody two-shoes, so I relished the job. I took it seriously, sometimes tracing the little green prefect’s badge on my collar with pride. Yes, it was a figurehead position, but it meant something to me.I reckon Michelle Obama feels a version of this (to the power of 1,000). The office of the first lady of the US is a weird, elevated mantle to uphold, a semi-archaic symbol with li
  
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• Blind date: ‘We had a long conversation about cows’

  03-12-2016 07:00
  
  Will lawyer Jen, 26, hit it off with chartered surveyor Jeremy, 29?What were you hoping for?
  Someone who was a laugh. Continue reading...
  
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• Tim Dowling: The flowers are ruined and the pumpkin pie’s burnt. Happy Thanksgiving

  03-12-2016 06:59
  
  My wife has invited friends and family with American connections round on the Sunday following ThanksgivingMy wife calls me from outside a butcher’s shop to shout at me for being American. “This is your stupid holiday,” she says.“This was your stupid idea,” I say. “And anyway, Thanksgiving was yesterday.” Continue reading...
  
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• Chef credited with inventing General Tso's Chicken has died

  03-12-2016 01:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - The chef credited with inventing General Tso's Chicken, a world-famous Chinese dish smothered in a sweet sauce that was never a staple in China, has died in Taiwan at 98.Peng Chang-kuei died of pneumonia last Wednesday in Taipei, his son, Chuck Peng, told The Associated Press. He was...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,531

  03-12-2016 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,058

  03-12-2016 01:00
  
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• 19 Minimalist Christmas Decorations to DIY This Weekend

  03-12-2016 00:00
  
  With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s hard to ignore that Christmas is right around the corner. Whether you’re eager to put up the tree, or feeling a little dread to get out the unorganized decoration boxes, we’ve rounded up a few modern, minimalist Christmas decorations that you can DIY this weekend in sweatpants, and sipping hot cocoa. We took inspiration for minimalist Christmas decorations from traditional Scandinavian holiday style and keep things strikingly simple, yet f
  
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