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• France's Hollande opens replica of Lascaux prehistoric art caves

  10-12-2016 19:59
  
  MONTIGNAC, France (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande on Saturday opened a new replica of the famous Lascaux caves where prehistoric hunters painted hundreds of images of animals like...
  
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• Horror Hamster

  10-12-2016 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I can just see that attempt of the parents, getting the little baby the talking hamster toy but it turns into a really bad horror hamster situation. That kid is going to brand marked for the rest of it’s life. Nope, no pet hamster when he’s older so he can learn about responsibility. He sees a hamster when he’s a teenage … Smack! That hamster is not going to the morning light ever again.
  Horror Hamster – The Talking Toy
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• The “Magic Remains” on this Controversial Caribbean Island

  10-12-2016 19:00
  
  Making magic on the Caribbean isle of Grenada…Jeff Mills
  
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• This 48,000-Square-Foot Bel Air Mansion Is on the Market for $85 Million 

  10-12-2016 18:00
  
  Le Belvédère is one of the most memorable estates in Bel Air
  The home features 19 fireplaces, a Turkish hammam, an infinity pool, a theater, and more…Rebekah Bell
  
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• This 35,000-Square-Foot Bel Air Mansion Is on the Market for $85 Million 

  10-12-2016 18:00
  
  Le Belvédère is one of the most memorable estates in Bel Air
  The home features 19 fireplaces, a Turkish hammam, an infinity pool, a theater, and more…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Romania: PM's tieless look talking point in electoral race.

  10-12-2016 17:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania - Is Romania's prime minister straining his ties with voters during an election campaign?Since Dacian Ciolos appeared open-collared and sans cravat in recent television interviews, there have been clucks of disapproval."Even crooks wear ties. He mocked us," says architect...
  
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• BREAKING NEWS: Aston Martin Revives the Legendary DB4 GT Model

  10-12-2016 15:32
  
  Aston Martin has announced it will revive the legendary lightweight version of the DB4 GT
  The track-only continuation car will be limited to a production run of just 25…Basem Wasef
  
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• Slavoj Žižek: ‘We are all basically evil, egotistical, disgusting’

  10-12-2016 15:00
  
  The controversial philosopher, 67, on struggling with being a bad father, becoming more aggressive and how writing saved his lifeWe are all basically evil, egotistical, disgusting. Take torture, for instance. I am a realist. If I had a daughter and someone kidnapped her, and I found a friend of the kidnapper, I cannot say I wouldn’t torture that guy.I have become more aggressive over time. Some say I am more right wing, which I am absolutely not. On the refugee crisis, we should drop the p
  
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• Charming Apartment in Central Stockholm Infused With Light

  10-12-2016 15:00
  
  Everyday life should unfold in bright, open and ingeniously designed homes. Seen on Alvhem Mäkleri & Interiör, this duplex apartment in central Stockholm provides a dose of highly appraised Scandinavian design as inspiration for those who love bright urban living spaces. The Charming central Stockholm duplex apartment spreads over a total of 55 square meters, so the design had to offer a luminous environment fit for Sweden’s long and dark winters. Under high ce
  
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• Black model shows the beauty of diversity in fashion – in pictures

  10-12-2016 15:00
  
  Fashion advertising is an industry which is often accused of a lack of diversity, and as a response, black model Deddeh Howard has recreated campaigns casting herself in ads originally featuring white models by brands like Guess, Chanel and Calvin Klein. The series, entitled Black Mirror, aims to raise awareness of the issue and highlight how ‘black girls are almost invisible’ in this area Continue reading...
  
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• 7 Easy Tips for Entertaining in Your Home

  10-12-2016 14:00
  
  We spend so much time curating and making our spaces just right, don’t we? And yet if you’re like me, you’re not entertaining nearly enough. With the holiday season in full swing, it’s time to show off your space, enjoy the company of friends, and not get too caught up in the details.The holiday season is known as the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also make you nervous to throw a casual gathering of friends — it’s easy to feel as though ther
  
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• Ask Alys: my ponytail palm is lopsided

  10-12-2016 12:00
  
  Alys Fowler suggests how to revive this houseplantI rescued a ponytail palm that had several growing points at the top of the trunk, but only one had leaves. This is flourishing, but the others remain leafless and dead-looking. The plant seems healthy overall, but it looks lopsided. What can I do?One side is flourishing, which is a great sign. The simplest trick would be to cut off the top just below the good growth. Seal with wax if you can and wait several weeks, making sure tha
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s tandoori recipes

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  I find it amazing that we’ll teach teenagers to drive before they can work the oven. Get them started with these easy recipes…The idea of kids’ food or teenage cooking is not a natural one for me. When I was growing up, I simply wanted to eat what my parents were cooking: there just wasn’t the option (or desire) for a separate and bespoke service. It’s only in recent years that I’ve realised how lucky I was to take this togetherness for granted. For many peop
  
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• Who are Generation Z? The latest data on today's teens

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  Gender fluid, hyper-stressed, politically engaged, connected but lonely: what do we know about modern teens?• Read more from the magazine’s teen takeoverToday’s youngest generation with a label, born after 2000, are connected yet isolated, savvy but anxious, indulged yet stressed. They have grown up with social media, a constant proliferation of information on a fully mobile internet, the rise of Islamic State and other forms of terrorism. As these teenagers approach adulthood,
  
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• Toshio Tanahashi: ‘Everything tastes better with ponzu’

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  Japanese shojin-ryori master chef Toshio Tanahashi needs little to cook – except lots of sievesMy kitchen is … a temporary one. I’m living in Okinawa in my girlfriend’s apartment, and most of my things are in storage. I don’t need much to be able to cook, though. It’s a small space and everything in it is important. The two changes I made when I moved in were to remove the microwave – which she never used – and replace the rice cooker with a tradi
  
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• 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  Teenagers from around the world share stories of lust, crushes and heartbreak• Read more from the magazine’s teen takeoverI was head-over-heels infatuated with a boy from the age of 12 until just a few weeks ago. He was three years older, so understandably had little interest in me at a younger age. But he soon become interested in my strange interest in him, and an unlikely friendship blossomed. We confided in each other for years, and I saw him through his drug problems that never s
  
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• ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  Meet the young activists, scientists, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs and big thinkers shaping your future• Read more from the magazine’s teen takeoverAn actor’s life is hard: it’s just one audition after another, and you have to grow a wall-thick skin to deal with all the rejection. For Bird, however, things went a little differently: she was signed to the Alphabet Kidz agency just before her sixth birthday and two weeks later beat hundreds of other young actors to land
  
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• 'It's crazy, for sure': meet the stars of Musical.ly

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  Thirteen-year-old twins Max and Harvey Mills have 2.5m followers on the lip-synching app. Will global fame follow?• Read more from the magazine’s teen takeoverPaul Mills is using his phone to live-stream footage of his twin sons while they record their first music video. Max and Harvey Mills, who are 13, are lip-synching to music by Shawn Mendes, the Canadian singer who got his break on the now doomed Vine video app (two albums later, Mendes, 18, is preparing for his second world tour
  
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• I was not good at being a teenager. But I do have some advice...

  10-12-2016 10:00
  
  Who you are now is not who you will be. You are still taking shape. Meanwhile, create – and do things just for youThere are some people who claim they enjoyed their teenage years. These people say – and I swear this is true: I have actually met them – that the years between 13 and 18 were “a laugh”, “brilliant”, even “the best years”. I’m happy for these people, I really am. How marvellous to look back on your youth and see the extended
  
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• 'We don't want to look boring or basic': how teenagers dress now

  10-12-2016 09:00
  
  Alternative or casual, mainstream or urban: teenage fashion tribes explain what their clothes mean to themWho do you think has great style? Rihanna, grime artist Paigey-Cakey. Continue reading...
  
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• Modern tribes: the Christmas party organiser

  10-12-2016 09:00
  
  Anyone else think fancy dress would be a super way to break the ice? OK guys, the Christmas schedule you’ve all been waiting for – guys? If we can just huddle momentarily? So, as your hardworking Christmas hubmeister, I thought this year’s theme could be Best Christmas Evah, are we all OK with that? So that means it’s not just the company party, and the canteen lunch, and the children’s tea – btw can everyone reply, asap, David we’re counting on you for
  
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• Beauty: teen skin is the loveliest – here’s how to look after it

  10-12-2016 09:00
  
  Many teens, while keen to avoid or treat spots, seek a solid maintenance programme that keeps skin comfortable It’s understandable that teen skincare products are geared towards problem conditions such as oiliness and acne, but this default assumption doesn’t apply to all. Many teens, while probably keen to avoid or treat blackheads and spots, seek a solid maintenance programme that keeps skin comfortable, not too shiny and well prepped for whatever makeup they might choose thereafte
  
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• Clive James: ‘At 16, my dress sense was in the first full flower of its baroque glory’

  10-12-2016 08:59
  
  It took me 50 years to learn that I should dress as plainly as possibleThe paper has asked me for a photograph of myself at 16. I can’t find one: it is as if my chaotic archives had been cleaned out to eliminate all records of myself at an age when my adult dress sense was in the first full flower of its baroque glory.In particular, shopping for myself, I had obtained a pair of oxblood shoes with quilt tops and foam rubber soles. Before I left the shoe shop I had already discover
  
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• Which New York City boroughs have the most and least subway stations? The Weekend quiz

  10-12-2016 08:00
  
  From subway stations to Scotland, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who was elected Anti-H Block MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1981?
  2 A derny is used in which Olympic event?
  3 Which British mammal suffers from a form of leprosy?
  4 What footwear brand’s name means Hawaiians in Portuguese?
  5 Which New York City boroughs have the most and least subway stations?
  6 Which country lost its coastline after the War of the Pacific?
  7 In Scotland, what is a but and ben?
  8 Natalie Mai
  
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• My workout: ‘Towards the end of a race, your legs are on fire’

  10-12-2016 08:00
  
  Jim Brown, 16, on the thrills and spills of being a track cyclistI live in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire; the Team GB cyclist Ed Clancy lives just down the road. Before London 2012 I’d see him out on the roads when I was riding. A few weeks later, he was winning an Olympic gold medal. I remember watching it on TV and thinking, “I want to do that.” My dad was a keen track cyclist already and took me along to the Manchester velodrome with him. Three years later we were racing against
  
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• Is it a false economy to turn off radiators in rooms we don’t use?

  10-12-2016 08:00
  
  A friend says this risks damp and makes our whole Victorian house coldEvery 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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• When I sleep on my side of the bed, I fall into a black hole of grief

  10-12-2016 07:45
  
  I’ve slept on my wife’s side of the bed since the night she died. When I try to cross back to my own half, I fall into a pit of despairImagine Narnia’s evil twin; a place of darkness without talking animals or the gentle Aslan. A place overseen by the grim reaper and his sidekick, fucking cancer.Entry into this grim world is not through a wardrobe, although it is via a piece of bedroom furniture. My bed is a thing of beauty. Purpose built some years ago, the brief to the surpri
  
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• The warmest people in the world

  10-12-2016 07:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Today I’d like to share a heart-tugging Christmas-related story that will make you feel less stressed out about the fact you are accumulating holiday debt faster than Iceland and Brazil combined.At least that’s what I think I’m going to do.It all began Tuesday afternoon as I...
  
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• A letter to … My father-in-law, who hates me

  10-12-2016 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI never thought we would get here. This is such a cliche. Your son and I have been together for over five years. I always thought that we got along well. I had the impression that you were supportive of our relationship and I felt like you wanted me to be part of the family.I also genuinely used to like you. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘My dad tried to stop me being gay’

  10-12-2016 07:30
  
  Mathew Shurka’s father put him in ‘gay conversion’ therapy when he was a teenager and told his lover to break off their affair. Years later, Mathew has chosen to forgive his dadTo the outside world, they were part of a crowd of teenage boys. They hung out together, went to parties and chased girls.But out of the gaze of their parents and peers, 18-year-old Mathew Shurka and Mark had fallen in love. Continue reading...
  
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• How do you tell a child his mother is dying?

  10-12-2016 07:15
  
  In A Monster Calls, a boy struggles because nobody tells him the truth about his dying mother. John-Paul Flintoff talks to the people behind the new film of the multi-award winning bookSiobhan Dowd had breast cancer. Her sister Denise was looking after her and one day, when the time seemed right, they had “the conversation”.“It came up when I was doing some of her personal care,” says Denise, a retired district nurse. “That’s always a good time to talk to peop
  
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• Why I love… Dawson’s Creek

  10-12-2016 07:00
  
  I knew these ‘teens’ weren’t like me in many ways, but they gave me a lexicon with which I could navigate my own lifeMy teen years were in the 90s, cradled between recessions. We had handkerchief-hem tops and UK garage and feelings, man. Well, I certainly did, and that’s why no photos of me as a teen survived – I burned them all in one spectacular fit of teen Sturm und Drang. But thank heaven for telly, which was full of beautiful (but still normal-looking) Ame
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘One masters the art of raising teenagers…’

  10-12-2016 07:00
  
  …Just in time for it to be of no use. But I have learned a few things over the past decade. A very fewWhen I started writing this column, my oldest son was 12. Last week, he turned 22. In a month, the middle one will be 19. The youngest, at 17, has just a few months left before he becomes society’s problem. Until recently, I’ve suffered from an embarrassment of teens, but suddenly I find myself facing a looming shortage.As with any phase of parenting, one masters the art of ra
  
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• Stephen Collins on a Christmas gift – cartoon

  10-12-2016 07:00
  
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• Readers’ recipe swap: nibbles for drinks

  10-12-2016 07:00
  
  There are some serious party animals behind these savoury dips, crisps, crackers, pastries and biscuits
  Take part! Scroll to the bottom to find out how...The rules for a good drinks nibble are simple and finite: no plates, no crumbs, and a combo of fat, salt and spice so addictive that you can’t stop eating them until they’re all gone. And you want a dip in there too. Your recipes were right on the money. I just wish you’d been there to taste them with me: they did my bottle of
  
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• Blind date: ‘it didn’t feel like we’d just met’

  10-12-2016 07:00
  
  Elise, 17, meets fellow student Oliver, 17What were you hoping for?To meet someone I could get along with without having to force the conversation.Continue reading...
  
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• My mother is terrible with money. Am I doomed to be the same?

  10-12-2016 06:59
  
  Her mother’s profligate spending means she has no assets and must now sell her house. Alice Simpson worries that she may follow her mother into the same financial abyssLast week, my aunt got a phone call from my mum. “I’m destitute,” she said. “I have to sell my house as soon as possible or I’ll be left with nothing.” This came as no surprise.My mum’s spending habits have been a cause of family concern for years – a source of t
  
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• Vacation like Roman Nobility at This New Italian Hotel

  10-12-2016 05:00
  
  Palazzo Dama
  This historic Italian villa is Rome’s most exclusive new hotel…
  Sara Magro
  
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• This $5,000 Ice Bucket Is Made from Grape Skins

  10-12-2016 03:00
  
  Perrier-Jouët Marc Metamorphosis ice bucket
  The limited-edition ice bucket is 3-D-printed from the powder of Chardonnay skins…Rebekah Bell
  
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• This Smooth American Rye Honors a 20th Century Whiskey Miracle

  10-12-2016 02:00
  
  Old Potrero Hotaling’s 16 Year Old Single Malt Rye Whiskey
  Anchor Distilling releases Old Potrero Hotaling’s 16 Year Old Single Malt Rye…Shaun Tolson
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,537

  10-12-2016 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,064

  10-12-2016 01:00
  
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• Homes for Christmas shoppers – in pictures

  10-12-2016 00:45
  
  You can shop till you drop if you live in one of these properties, located in Essex, Wiltshire and LeedsContinue reading...
  
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• Sunseeker’s New Manhattan 66 Feels Like a Much Larger Yacht

  10-12-2016 00:00
  
  Sunseeker International’s new Manhattan 66 yachtThe 66-foot yacht features a deep-V hull design, newly configured flybridge, and open-concept layout…Rebekah Bell
  
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