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• When Noah meets Emma: Top U.S. baby names for 2016

  13-05-2017 22:04
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - When 18-year-olds register as first-time voters in the 2034 U.S. congressional elections, many of the signatures will include the names Emma and Noah.
  
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• Pope canonizes Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints

  13-05-2017 21:39
  
  FATIMA, Portugal (Reuters) - Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints on Saturday, canonizing shepherd siblings believed to have seen the Madonna 100 years ago in a Portuguese...
  
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• Swap Out Your Go-To Suit for One of these 6 Rainbow-Bright Styles

  13-05-2017 21:00
  
  Inject some color into your spring wardrobe with these sky-blue, olive-green, and pastel-pink suits…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• At Venice Biennale, American artist engages social issues

  13-05-2017 20:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  VENICE, Italy - Mark Bradford has his feet in two worlds: social engagement and producing art. Often they mix, as at the 57th Venice Biennale where he is representing the ......
  
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• Thousands in Madrid demand end to bullfighting in Spain

  13-05-2017 20:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MADRID - Thousands of animal rights activists protested Saturday in Madrid to demand an end to Spain's long tradition of bullfighting.The march went through the Spanish capital's city centre, with ...
  
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• Own a Luxe Residence in the Glamorous Alpine Resort Town of St. Moritz

  13-05-2017 20:00
  
  Scheduled to open in 2019, Grace St. Moritz will feature 17 freehold apartments…Livia Hooson
  
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• Diamonds Rule in This Incredible New Collection from a Beloved Indian Jeweler

  13-05-2017 18:00
  
  Nirav Modi unveils a collection of fresh, breathtaking new diamond jewelry…Jill Newman
  
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• Egypt uncovers chamber of mummies, sees life for tourism

  13-05-2017 15:21
  
  MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact, the latest in a string of discoveries that the country's antiquities minister...
  
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• The Drive Toward a Cure Road Rally Fights Parkinson’s at Full Throttle

  13-05-2017 15:00
  
  Photograph by Mark Davidson/Drive Toward a CureThe three-day getaway had both supercars and classics revved up for the cause…Viju Mathew
  
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• No whey! Dairy’s not so bad for you after all | Nell Frizzell

  13-05-2017 13:00
  
  Cheese-lovers’ hearts are churning with delight over a study that disavows the link between dairy and disease, but is it really the blank cheque to overindulge they’re longing for?My mother, it appears, is going to live forever. The woman who bought 12 pints of milk for a two-night holiday in Wales; the woman who has three “emergency” pats of butter in her fridge at all times, despite living five doors down from a corner shop; the woman who uses cheese as a seasoning and
  
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• Higher Buck, Waddington, Lancashire: hotel review

  13-05-2017 13:00
  
  This pub, in one of Lancashire’s prettiest villages, is up there with the finest dining in the lauded Ribble valley. The modish makeover is no match for the food, but the classy guest rooms areA stream runs alongside the main street in Waddington. Traffic is so light you can hear it gurgling as you stroll toward the gardens by St Helen’s church, where a sign lists the years (1975, 1979, 1981 … ) in which Waddington has been crowned Lancashire’s Best Kept Village. It is s
  
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• Pope canoness Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints

  13-05-2017 12:52
  
  FATIMA, Portugal (Reuters) - Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints on Saturday, canonizing shepherd siblings believed to have seen the Madonna 100 years ago in a Portuguese...
  
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• eBay Keyword Bargain Hunting

  13-05-2017 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our site Lastminute Auction has been around for some serious time now and it’s pretty popular. It’s not the prettiest one BUT that’s not the point. We find you some incredible bargains. The concept of the site work. Finding you bargains on eBay with only one hour left and the auction price at only ONE USD.
  We added a new feature, let’s say your a Pokemon Fan. You can now set up alerts, so every time we add a Pokemon auction meeting our criteria, you’ll get an alert.
  
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• Plant of the week: sweet woodruff

  13-05-2017 12:00
  
  Leaves arranged in a star shape appear in early spring, followed by tiny starry flowersSweet woodruff (Galium odoratum) is best summed up by Somerset nursery Plants For Shade, whose description runs: “Mythical thug for a shady spot where it can spread and display its fragrant white flowers in spring.” Leaves arranged in a star shape appear first in early spring, followed by tiny starry flowers in April and May. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I made a statistical game out of dating’: could I crack the formula for love?

  13-05-2017 12:00
  
  Alpha job + beta husband = my future sorted. What could possibly go wrong?I am a math nerd. “A maths nerd,” my partner corrects me, because we live in London now. Fine. I love puzzles and formulae and bullet-pointed plans. I’ve spent many a winter morning with a steaming cup of tea and an Excel file. I don’t often make major forecasting errors, but I’m in the middle of my life’s biggest miscalculation.Until I was eight, in 1987, I lived in Isfahan, Iran, in a
  
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• Hyundai Ioniq car review: ‘Never ignore your electric car’

  13-05-2017 12:00
  
  The help I get from strangers will run to many man hours by the end of this caperThe Hyundai Ioniq has its automatic gears on large, crude buttons that look as though they were designed to teach a baby how to spell. It doesn’t seem likely that hitting D will result in a forward movement, but there she goes, smooth and silent, a cheerful blue predator. All that stuff I would normally notice (the exterior, the cabin, the satnav, the driving posture): forget it. This is one woman’s stru
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: can you grow vegetables that taste good in shade?

  13-05-2017 11:59
  
  Our gardening columnist has the answerIs it possible to grow vegetables in complete shade that will taste nice? I have a garden that gets virtually no sun.
  Vegetables mostly evolved in open spaces such as grasslands, river banks or cliffs. Some came from forest margins: the sunny edge of the wood, not the middle. They like soils dominated by bacteria rather than fungi, and need sun to make sugars. We’ve bred veg to be dependent on the good times, so even if you can persuade them to grow in
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s trout recipes

  13-05-2017 10:00
  
  It’s time to stop treating trout as salmon’s poor relationAnyone who writes menus for a living wants to achieve two things: one, of course, is to offer a selection of dishes that people are keen to try; the other is to encourage guests to try something new, to venture outside their comfort zone. But the nature of how we order food can create a tension between the two.In fact, menu choices can often seem a bit random. Put chicken or salmon on a menu, say, and the likelihood is there w
  
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• Women aren't meant to talk about miscarriage. But I've never been able to keep a secret

  13-05-2017 10:00
  
  Because of this silence, people don’t realise how traumatic it is – until it happens to them. I certainly didn’tLast Friday, on a bright blue day, I took a train to south-west London. If you never go that way, and I generally don’t, I recommend it as a pleasant day trip: all those green spaces and cute patisseries and shops that only sell wraparound cashmere cardigans. I did not have time to linger, though, as I needed to get back to the office. But first I had to pick up
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the childless friend

  13-05-2017 10:00
  
  ‘You see how relatively stress-free my life is, how I have surplus cash and time to spend on myself, and you moan about the pressures of motherhood’You told me you were pregnant with your first child at the same time I made the decision to remain child-free. You welled up with tears, but I told you not to feel sorry for me, and put your emotions down to hormones. I knew that having a family meant everything to you, and I have watched with joy your two growing up over the la
  
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• Stéphane Reynaud: ‘A friend of mine makes goat’s cheese and I buy 40 at a time’ | Kitchen encounters

  13-05-2017 10:00
  
  The French chef and cookery writer just wants to have a blast with his friendsMy kitchen is … where everything happens in our house. My wife and I bought this ruin of a big old stone house in the Ardèche about 7 years ago. My sister-in-law – an architect – redesigned it for us. “What do you want?” she asked me – to which I replied: “You know exactly what I want! A kitchen, with a house around it.” I make a lot of food – I leave the ki
  
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• 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood

  13-05-2017 10:00
  
  His parenting skills, he thought, were a work in progress. There was still time to get better… only now his youngest is about to turn 18. What has he learned?From time to time, and without success, I have tried to track down the episode of EastEnders broadcast on the evening of 1 December 1994. I thought it might remind me of what it was like not to be a parent, because that was the last time I wasn’t one: my wife’s waters broke in the middle of the episode. We watched the res
  
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• Coolest Pokemon Lunchbox

  13-05-2017 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Got to eat the all! Never miss a lunch again with this super awesome and handy looking Poké Ball lunch box. Now you won’t get beat up because people are jealous of your bento lunch but now people will beat you up so they can just carry your lunchbox for you.
  And in case you come across a rare Pokemon Monster, gobble up your food and throw your Pokemon lunch box like a crazy person. Whoops it’s the second time you threw it against the head of your little brother. Listen, your b
  
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• 'People still want to work here': can British business survive Brexit?

  13-05-2017 09:00
  
  From a family recipe for chilli sauce to the most advanced satellites in the world, Britain still makes a lot of stuff. What will happen to it in a world outside the EU?Towards the end of a production line deep inside a factory near Cardiff, two workers are almost halfway through their 120-hour shift. The grey and white ABB YuMi robots have torsos, shoulders, elbows and hands, and the physiques of heavyweight boxers. They have most weekends off, but when demand peaks, as it often does these days
  
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• Modern tribes: the born-again royalist

  13-05-2017 09:00
  
  Do you know that Prince Philip was actually a total feminist, supporting his wife, and apparently he’s brilliantly clever, and so good-lookingI know it sounds weird, but I’m really going to miss Prince Philip. Even if he makes racist comments and had affairs and everything – did you watch The Crown, amazing – but he was actually a total feminist, supporting his wife, and apparently he’s brilliantly clever, could have been a leading engineer, and so good-looking (it&
  
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• Just do it: the experience economy and how we turned our backs on ‘stuff’

  13-05-2017 09:00
  
  New figures show we are continuing to spend less money on buying things, and more on doing things – and telling the world about it online afterwards, of course. From theatres to pubs to shops, businesses are scrambling to adapt to this shiftIt was an audacious plan for an unloved bit of Manchester. A £25m arts centre to be built on a derelict plot that had not felt a cultural pulse since the closure, 15 years earlier, of the legendary Haçienda nightclub. It would be called Hom
  
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• Beauty: quick, easy and realistic – instant leg tanners are the way to go | Sali Hughes

  13-05-2017 09:00
  
  Why wash-off leg tans beat longer-lasting rivals any dayIt is time. My children are refusing to wear long trousers, the shops are full of daffodil yellow and slightly weird, half-mast culottes, and the clock is ticking on my beloved black opaques. I don’t wish to crow, but I’ve been banging on for at least eight years about the superiority of wash-off leg tans over their more popular, slow-developing, longer-lasting shelf mates. And now, seemingly overnight, everyone in beauty agrees
  
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• Even in faraway US, Indonesian seafood enforcer wins acclaim

  13-05-2017 08:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - A high school dropout turned seafood entrepreneur is leading Indonesia's crackdown on illegal fishing, winning plaudits from conservationists and awards as far away as Washington despite her explosive ......
  
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• What links water, bank, Skomer, field, Guernsey, Orkney? The Weekend quiz

  13-05-2017 08:00
  
  From a diarist to a major muscle, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz. Answers below (no peeking)
  1 Which diarist was born on 2 April 1967?
  2 What meet at Dartmeet?
  3 Which national flag features a Raggiana bird of paradise?
  4 Who is the First Commoner of the Land?
  5 What is the largest muscle in the human body?
  6 Fortune magazine reporter Bethany McLean blew the whistle on what energy scandal?
  7 In Japan, hanami is the enjoyment of what?
  8 Which European peninsula is named after Tariq ibn
  
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• We’re over our wedding budget – how can we cut costs?

  13-05-2017 08:00
  
  We had budgeted £12,000 but have overspent by £2,000 and need adviceEvery 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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• The elusive American wilderness: in search of my own private Idaho

  13-05-2017 08:00
  
  Off-trail amid towering mountains, engulfed in freezing fog and stepping over fresh bear tracks, our writer finally finds America in the rawIn 1901, the pioneering environmentalist John Muir sat down to write a compendium of America’s wildernesses, places he had learned to love and also helped preserve as the world’s first national parks. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people,” he wrote, “are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is go
  
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• 'Return to your old job and plan a coming back party' – our work expert responds

  13-05-2017 08:00
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help an employee concerned about the sacking of a colleague and another who doesn’t like their new jobContinue reading...
  
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• Postnatal depression – ‘I felt disembodied for so long but suddenly I was back in my own body’

  13-05-2017 07:45
  
  Jessica Friedmann talks to Viv Groskop about the terrifying years she experienced after the birth of her sonJessica Friedmann thought she was managing well after the birth of her son. Then suddenly her thoughts took a dark turn. “I had to come back into hospital two weeks later for a checkup and I realised that all I wanted to do was get out of the moving car. I was feeling as though I couldn’t handle being alive any more and that it would be better for Owen if I wasn’t.”
  
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• A letter to … my parents, whose favouritism ripped our family apart

  13-05-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeTo say favouritism ripped my family apart is an understatement. From my earliest memories, my mother was a religious fanatic and we had religion rammed down our throats day and night. She was always telling us that the Bible was written for our instruction and we were to learn from biblical examples (Romans 15:4). It was such a pity that she never read the book of Genesis, about how Jacob’s favouritism ripped his family apart too, resulting in Joseph&rs
  
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• Ask the Expert -- Three Musketeers mugs

  13-05-2017 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DEAR MIKE: I was helping a friend clean her parents' estate and came upon these two mugs. They depict two of the three musketeers, Aramis and Athos.My friend told me ...
  
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• Why I took my 90-year-old mum on an epic road trip across America

  13-05-2017 07:30
  
  Her health was failing, and her husband had just died, but Norma Bauerschmidt decided to join her son on a journey across America. He tells Giulia Rhodes how 14 months of travel liberated herThe recommended treatment, Norma Bauerschmidt was told on learning that she had terminal cancer, comprised surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. At the age of 90, and just two days after Leo, her husband of 67 years, had died in the same Michigan hospital, Norma had other ideas.“I’m hitting the ro
  
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• ‘Truly, madly, deeply alone’ – embracing solitude

  13-05-2017 07:14
  
  After decades surrounded by a happy extended family, Max Riddington now chooses to live alone. Stripped of company and casual support, she wonders: is the solitude a comfort, or will loneliness strike?I grew up the youngest in a family of five. I married and had a baby before I was 30. I couldn’t have more kids, but we were the Waltons in other ways: I lived next door to my in-laws and my parents moved to the next village when they retired. We were one big, happy, extended family. Yet ther
  
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• Why I love… Pierce Brosnan

  13-05-2017 07:00
  
  Have better shoulders-in-a-suit ever existed? I think notI need only remember my graduation ball to know that a man in a well-cut suit is an all too rare thing. But there are people who wear suits as if they’re doing the garment a favour, and we should applaud them when we see them. So put your hands together for Irish-American actor Pierce Brosnan. Have better shoulders-in-a-suit ever existed? I think not.I first saw Brosnan, who turns 64 next week, in Mrs Doubtfire, playing the new hunk
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for walnut cake with chocolate sauce | King of puddings

  13-05-2017 07:00
  
  Walnuts are falling out of favour by degrees. If you can find them, though, they never fail to delight in a cake that is simplicity itself ...After having holidayed in south-west France, a very good friend always brings me a bottle of walnut oil. This is a great prize. Each passing year, and with each delivery, my friend returns bemoaning the increasing rarity of this precious oil. “They are not picking them all,” he mutters with a shake of the head. It’s unclear whether it&rsq
  
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• Blind date: ‘I couldn’t eat much – maybe it was nerves’

  13-05-2017 07:00
  
  Did sparks fly for nutrition student Rory, 31, and music PR Elizabeth, 26?Continue reading...
  
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• I gave a room in my house to a refugee – now she’s like my sister

  13-05-2017 06:59
  
  When Lucy Pavia and her husband offered Loujean Alsaman, a refugee from Syria, a room in their home, none of them knew what to expect. But over the six months they spent together, the women forged a close, sisterly bondIt was when girls started disappearing that my family decided it wasn’t safe for me to stay in Syria any longer. They would be stopped by police at roadblocks and wouldn’t return home. Damascus, where I was born and grew up, is one of the safest cities in Syria but the
  
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• Falling for feijoas: the fruit New Zealand wants the world to love

  13-05-2017 03:11
  
  At this time of year, New Zealanders in the diaspora will do just about anything to get their hands on ‘green gold’. Now exporters have their eye on a wider market“To most New Zealanders, imagining life without feijoas is almost unthinkable.” Yes, this is marketing copy, but as with all the best marketing copy, it is also true. At this time of year, these small, smooth green fruits are plentiful in New Zealand, traded by the bucket for next to nothing and infusing everyth
  
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• Azimut Debuts New Superyacht

  13-05-2017 03:00
  
  The new Azimut Grande 35 Metri flagship has set new design parameters for the 100-foot-plus category… Michael Verdon
  
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• Fashion designer Carolina Herrera's nephew killed in Caracas

  13-05-2017 02:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela - A nephew of Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera has been found dead inside a truck on a road near the capital city of Caracas.The public prosecutor's office ......
  
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• 3 Gorgeous Vintage Watches Headed to Christie’s Auction Block

  13-05-2017 02:30
  
  We take a hands-on look at three watches worth raising a paddle for at Christie’s upcoming Geneva watch auction…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• 10 Italian Villas for the Ultimate Summer Escape

  13-05-2017 02:00
  
  From Tuscany to Rome, these over-the-top villas are the ultimate Italian summer getaways… Casey Hatfield-Chiotti
  
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• Luke Mangan's honey and oregano haloumi with fig, golden beets, dandelion and walnuts

  13-05-2017 01:06
  
  In his latest recipe collection, leading Australian chef Luke Mangan has delicious and easy recipes for sharing meals with friendsLuke Mangan’s macadamia and zucchini fritters with smoked salmon and corn salsaAs a chef, it’s important to use and understand seasonal produce. Cooking and designing menus according to the season allows you to be more creative in the kitchen. For me, this way of cooking probably stemmed from growing up in a household that relied on buying ingredients acco
  
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• Sudoku killer 553

  13-05-2017 01:01
  
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,196

  13-05-2017 01:00
  
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• Whiskey of the Week: WhistlePig FarmStock Crop 1

  13-05-2017 00:00
  
  This made-in-Vermont spirit is the world’s first triple-terroir whiskey… Viju Mathew
  
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