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• 5 immigrant women vie for Miss USA pageant title

  12-05-2017 23:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LAS VEGAS - Five of the contestants vying for the Miss USA title have a message to immigrant girls and women watching the pageant this weekend: Set goals, work hard ......
  
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• This Saint-Tropez Estate Is Worthy of a Bond Villain

  12-05-2017 21:00
  
  Residents can arrive at the exclusive French Riviera residence by boat, car, or helicopter…Jennifer Ashton Ryan
  
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• Ashley Graham is a woman with curves but don't say plus-size

  12-05-2017 20:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Ashley Graham may have curves, but she hates the term plus-size."Does any woman really just come in and say, 'I'm a plus-size woman'? Maybe as a defence ......
  
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• Michelle Obama criticizes Trump school lunch decision

  12-05-2017 20:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama on Friday criticized a Trump administration decision to delay federal rules aimed at making school lunch healthier, saying kids will end up "eating crap" instead.Mrs. Obama ...
  
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• Venice Biennale taps artistic angst amid rising nationalism

  12-05-2017 20:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  VENICE, Italy - With nationalism on the rise, political engagement is central to the artistic dialogue at the Venice Biennale, the world's oldest contemporary art fair, opening Saturday.From the main ...
  
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• Free water from the bar tap? Get the app | Letters

  12-05-2017 20:04
  
  Guy Hodgson has a tech solution for reducing the amount of plastic drinking bottles we useI can quite understand why people feel awkward asking for tap water without making a purchase (British embarrassment over asking for tap water in bars fuels plastic bottle waste – survey, 11 May). Fortunately, the Refill app from refill.org.uk will help direct people to all sorts of lovely businesses who have made clear their commitment to plastic waste reduction. They will refill with no obligation t
  
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• The Chief Designer for Lexus Speaks with Robb Report about the Bold New LC 500

  12-05-2017 20:00
  
  Tadao Mori discusses the LF-LC motor-show car and other inspirations for the grand tourer…Laura Burstein
  
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• Angry reaction to restaurant serving horse meat blown out of proportion: chef

  12-05-2017 20:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - A Toronto chef who helped prepare a Quebecois-themed meal in a Pittsburgh restaurant where horse meat was on the menu thinks the angry reaction has been blown out ...
  
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• Congo announces 9 suspected Ebola cases, including 3 deaths

  12-05-2017 19:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  KINSHASA, Congo - One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine ...
  
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• How the AP-NORC poll on education was conducted

  12-05-2017 19:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on education was conducted by NORC on April 20-23. It is based on online and telephone interviews of 1,036 adults who ...
  
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• Giant diamond auction fails as Sierra Leone rejects offer

  12-05-2017 19:11
  
  FREETOWN (Reuters) - A much anticipated auction for one of the world's largest diamonds fizzled on Thursday when the government of Sierra Leone rejected a $7.8 million bid for the rough, egg-sized...
  
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• Back to the future: 80s fashion with a modern twist – in pictures

  12-05-2017 19:00
  
  Power dressing is back with a bang: via lamé, leggings and cinched waists, it’s time to channel your inner Working Girl (or Cruella de Vil) Continue reading...
  
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• Why make just a desert? Here are tips for a dessert buffet

  12-05-2017 18:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Fruit pies, ice cream, and fresh berry salads are summer staples, and you'll never catch us turning any of those down. But even in the summer, the occasion may arise ...
  
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• Wine: what to drink with curry

  12-05-2017 18:00
  
  Red wine works much better with spicy food than you might thinkI hesitate to return to the subject of wine and curry, because it invariably provokes an outburst along the lines of, “Whywouldyoudrinkanythingbutlager?” Still, I press on, especially when I think I have a new take on the subject – and, following a week in India last month, that is that red wine is better with spicy food than you might think.Obvious? Well, not really. The qualities that make lager an appealingly ref
  
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• Thomasina Miers' recipes for new season garlic puree toasts and spiced lamb chops

  12-05-2017 18:00
  
  Put a spring in your step with a fresh take on seasonal vegMuch as I love purple sprouting broccoli and think that leeks make brilliantly zippy midweek dinners, I am longing for a change. And, thankfully, with spring now in full swing, there is an explosion of new vegetables to tempt me into the kitchen. Being a garlic lover, I can never resist the new season’s crop, but I fancied a change from my seasonal staple of baked garlic with goat’s cheese; what I came up with is, I think, at
  
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• Defying Convention: Urwerk Presents New UR-106 Flower Power

  12-05-2017 18:00
  
  Urwerk’s latest timepiece for women is anything but ordinary…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Cocktail of the week: rosemary Collins – recipe

  12-05-2017 18:00
  
  Fresh herbs bring some extra zip to a legendary cocktailThe sour notes of a classic Collins take very well to the addition of a little herbal fragrance. Serves one.40ml blanco tequila
  25ml fresh lemon juice, plus 1 lemon wheel to garnish
  20ml sugar syrup
  1 sprig rosemary, plus 1 extra to garnish
  Soda water, to top Continue reading...
  
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• Let’s move to… Thetford, Norfolk: ‘A rum old mix’

  12-05-2017 17:30
  
  The streetscape fuses Stevenage surreally with Burnham Market – flinty cuteness jumpcut with 50s council houseWhat’s going for it? We’ve had Essex Man, Worcester Woman and the Man on the Clapham Omnibus. But these days, if editors of newspapers and broadcast news programmes want to hear “the voice of the people”, deepest, darkest Thetford seems to be where they dispatch their journalists. This microcosm is seen to somehow embody the state of the nation, a bundle of
  
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• Emirates princesses on trial in Belgium over servant abuse

  12-05-2017 17:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BRUSSELS - A Belgian court is hearing the case of a princess from Abu Dhabi and her seven daughters accused of mistreating around 20 servants forced to work for them ...
  
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• I’ve fallen in love with a colleague – but I’m married with children

  12-05-2017 16:00
  
  I can’t stop thinking about her – what should I do? Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI’m 40 and married with three children. I have a loving wife and a career that, while it doesn’t pay that much, keeps me happy. However, right now I’m deeply conflicted and at my wits’ end. I’ve fallen deeply in love with an office colleague. She’s my age, apparently has a boyfriend and I actually hated her at first. I couldn’t give a damn whether she c
  
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• It’s hard to talk about mental health at the best of times, which these are not

  12-05-2017 16:00
  
  ‘Nobody, even Trump, should be blamed for being mentally ill. But nor should we pretend mental illness affects only the nice’Should we talk more openly about mental illness, or should we shut up? It depends which side of the Atlantic you’re on. In Britain, the future head of state has thrown his weight behind an admirable campaign for more conversation, but in America, where the current head of state seems profoundly psychologically disordered, the official position is to zip i
  
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• Congo reports a single confirmed case of Ebola, UN says

  12-05-2017 15:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The World Health Organization says Congo's ministry of health has announced that it has confirmed a single case of Ebola.In a statement on its Twitter account, the U.N. ......
  
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• Don't call me Caitlyn: Baby name plunges in popularity

  12-05-2017 15:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - The popularity of the name Caitlyn has plummeted more than any other baby name, a year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender.In fact, Social Security's ...
  
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• Dior takes celeb crowd caving with LA cruise collection show

  12-05-2017 15:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - Dior took its star-studded crowd on an ultra-chic cave expedition Thursday night with an eclectic cruise collection inspired by the Lascaux caves in southwestern France.Rihanna, Charlize Theron, ...
  
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• Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1: 'What’s British about tortellini?’ – restaurant review

  12-05-2017 15:00
  
  The history, the view, the critically aclaimed chef: what’s not to love?Restaurants frequented by tourists are hardly ever beacons of gastronomic pilgrimage. There are exceptions, of course – London’s Rules springs to mind – but mostly a view or oodles of history give the operators carte blanche to continue on their merry way of being just a bit shit. Not shit enough to create the kind of online intel that might deter the leisurewear-clad tour parties, but enough to repel
  
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• Experience: the internet found my wedding dress

  12-05-2017 15:00
  
  My dad went to collect the dress from the dry cleaners, but the shop was boarded up. A sign said it had gone into liquidationAlfred and I got engaged in August 2015, a year after we’d met. We planned the wedding for midsummer’s day the following year, at my parent’s house in Scotland. They live in the middle of the countryside in an old manse, with a small 12th-century kirk, or church, next to it. I’m a set designer, and am used to decorating events such as weddings. We w
  
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• Dior elevates festival fashion with Los Angeles-inspired Cruise collection

  12-05-2017 14:29
  
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fringed capes, pleated skirts and bolero hats peppered the runway at the Dior Cruise 2018 collection on Thursday as the luxury Parisian label spun its own twist on music...
  
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• 'I peeled my finger instead of the coconut': readers on their fruit- and vegetable-related injuries

  12-05-2017 14:24
  
  As a surgeons’ association suggests avocados should carry a warning label, we asked readers for tales of their own chopping-board disasters Warning: contains graphic contentThe number of people admitted to A&E with knife-related injuries from trying to cut avocados has risen, according to the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. The association said safety labels should appear on the fruit to prevent people from cutting themselves. We asked readers for
  
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• Delia’s chicken liver pâté is a great way to display your culinary dominance | The Delia project

  12-05-2017 13:30
  
  This starter ticks all the boxes – quick, easy and posh enough to impress your friendsThe best word for a starter, Delia says, “is ‘appetiser’ – something that arouses the appetite”. Delia thinks this accurately describes what a first course should be: something that draws you into “the fullest pleasure of eating”.This is true. But there’s another purpose to the starter that Delia doesn’t mention, but that, I think we can all agree, is
  
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• Popularity of sushi has brought rise in parasitic infections, warn doctors

  12-05-2017 13:29
  
  Doctors have highlighted the need for awareness of anisakiasis, caused by the larvae of a worm found in contaminated undercooked or raw fish or seafoodFrom nigiri to temaki, sushi has boomed in popularity in the west, but now doctors are warning of a less appetising trend: a rise in parasitic infections.A team of doctors from Portugal raised concerns after a 32-year old man was admitted to hospital complaining of pain in his abdomen just below his ribs, vomiting and had a slight fever, all of wh
  
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• I don’t want to be an expat any more, but my husband has to stay for work

  12-05-2017 13:11
  
  We’re both in our 60s and my husband needs to work for four more years. But I feel I have given up too much to carry on living in the Middle East. Do I stick it out?I am a long-term expat wife, and have lived in the Middle East for more than 10 years. Expat life is glamorous at first, but it soon becomes normal. I am in my early 60s, and feel I have given up too much already. I want to go home to the UK, but my husband has four more years of working life. He isn’t a workaholic a
  
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• A Basque recipe for scrambled eggs with piquillo peppers | A taste of home

  12-05-2017 13:00
  
  A passion for Basque cuisine manifests in a piquant pile of eggs, topped with Iberico ham and piquillo peppers that is Juan-Mari Arzak’s taste of homeWhenever I’m travelling, the dish I long for most upon my return is scrambled eggs with piquillo peppers. I might have spent a lifetime focusing on creative cuisine, but this is the dish that means home to me. In Spain, and certainly in the Basque region, breakfast isn’t such a big thing – this is more of a lunch or a dinner
  
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• No retirement for Belgian conductor Herreweghe as he turns 70

  12-05-2017 12:01
  
  GHENT, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe, who turned 70 this month, says he has no intention of retiring as he continues to discover new nuances in the music of the composer...
  
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• Dean Karnazes: 'When you’re struggling, that’s when you feel most alive'

  12-05-2017 11:32
  
  In his latest book, the ultramarathoner takes on the ancient Greek 153-mile Spartathlon. He talks about the magic in misery and why he has stopped stoking up on pizzaHi Dean. You have a new book out, The Road to Sparta. What is it about? It is the story and the lore of the marathon, from its genesis in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago to the modern marathon. It’s how the marathon became the marathon.And in the book you take on the Spartathlon race [a 153-mile race from Athens to Sparta] in G
  
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• There's something in the air: the facts about hay fever - video

  12-05-2017 11:14
  
  Hay fever affects one in four people in Britain – that’s 16 million of us. Watch this video to discover more about this everyday allergy, from what causes it to how it affects us.Plus, learn a few tactics that will help you enjoy a sneeze-free spring and summer Continue reading...
  
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• Alaska counters lack of fresh veggies with greenhouse guide

  12-05-2017 10:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Greenhouses have long been an option for increasing the limited growing season in Alaska, but they're too expensive to operate for many remote communities that rely on ......
  
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• Smoke alarm: Indonesians take tiny steps against Big Tobacco

  12-05-2017 10:41
  
  JAKARTA (Reuters) - A neighborhood in the Indonesian capital has informally declared itself a smoke-free zone as students plan further protests against what they see as an increased effort by...
  
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• Grasshoppers, cookie dough among the new hits on MLB menus

  12-05-2017 09:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The idea of serving edible grasshoppers at a baseball game isn't as crazy as it sounds.The Seattle Mariners brought that curious offering to their ballpark this season, and although it ...
  
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• The 4 best brunch cocktails

  12-05-2017 09:00
  
  From a classic bloody mary to a ‘hair of the dog’ corpse reviver, these are the drinks to go with your favourite brunch recipes
  20 best brunch recipes part 120 best brunch recipes part 220 best brunch recipes part 320 best brunch recipes part 4As the name suggests, a corpse reviver is a “hair of the dog” cocktail. I’ve adapted my sweetheart Sazerac to create an unusual but excellent tipple – and a decidedly un-virtuous way of starting brunch. Continue reading.
  
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• Ballet isolated in Egypt but it fires passions

  12-05-2017 08:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CAIRO - Ballet dancer Fady el-Nabarawy feels he can finally breathe again the moment he enters the gates of the Cairo Opera House after a commute from his ramshackle, poor ...
  
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• My boss messages me at all hours – what should I do?

  12-05-2017 08:00
  
  I even get texts on the weekend and it’s stressing me out
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.I am a graduate and after two years of temping and hospitality roles, I’ve recently started a low-paying but promising job in a field I’m relatively inexperienced in.
  
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• No ring, too much bling: why Vogue Williams isn’t invited to Pippa Middleton’s wedding

  12-05-2017 07:00
  
  They’re the nuptials of the year. Such a shame that the bride’s future brother-in-law won’t be able to bring his girlfriendIt is with heavy heart that I must announce that Pippa Middleton is at it again. This time, the nation’s sister-in-law is taking her gloriously healthy tan down the aisle, to marry a hedge fund manager called James. You imagine that this union is fulfilling some sort of semi-ancient destiny, runes found carved and glowing in stone beneath the exact po
  
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• Couple to wed after losing nearly 600 pounds together

  12-05-2017 06:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Frustrated with his ever-growing weight that peaked at 675 pounds, Ronnie Brower began dieting and working out on his way to losing an astounding 458 pounds. His four-year fitness journey, ......
  
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• A Real Formula 1 Race Car Completes a VR Simulation Experience

  12-05-2017 03:00
  
  CXC Simulations and Norwegian Cruise Line offer a unique onboard experience in a real F1 Racer…Miles Branman
  
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