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• Now in Washington, Melania Trump still no social butterfly

  24-06-2017 23:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly.Not that she hasn't been ...
  
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• Dior designer celebrates decade at helm at Paris menswear

  24-06-2017 21:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - Celebrating a decade at the creative helm of Dior Homme on Saturday, designer Kris Van Assche held court with Christian Slater, Jamie Bell and Kata Mara at his ......
  
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• Huge, homely mastiff named Martha wins world's ugliest dog

  24-06-2017 19:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PETALUMA, Calif. - Martha is big, ugly, lazy and gassy. And a world champion.In a competition annually dominated by the old, the tiny, and the hairless, the 3-year-old, 125-pound Neapolitan ...
  
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• Top scholars rise above gang violence in suburban NY town

  24-06-2017 19:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BRENTWOOD, N.Y. - Their senior year began with sadness and horror. Two fellow students at Brentwood High School were beaten to death in the street. The corpses of three more ......
  
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• Turkey bans Istanbul Pride, organizers vow to march anyway

  24-06-2017 18:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities announced Saturday they will not allow the Istanbul Pride march to take place on Sunday — the third year in a row the celebration has been ...
  
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• Berlin gives celebrity welcome to 2 giant pandas from China

  24-06-2017 17:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BERLIN - Two giant pandas — Meng Meng and Jiao Qing — received a celebrity welcome Saturday in Berlin from the German capital's mayor and the Chinese ambassador after they ...
  
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• Wet winter creates hazards for hikers on popular US trail

  24-06-2017 17:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - Anya Sellsted had scaled scary snow-covered passes and forded frightening rivers during her solo hike from Mexico to Canada when the hazards of California's gargantuan winter finally ......
  
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• The world's ugliest dog competition 2017 – in pictures

  24-06-2017 16:25
  
  The Sonoma-Marin Fair hosted the annual competition for the world’s ugliest canines, with Martha the mastiff crowned winner Continue reading...
  
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• Trump administration opposing bid for syphilis study museum

  24-06-2017 16:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Trump administration opposes a bid to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honouring victims ...
  
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• Meal program bridges cultural divisions, 1 plate at a time

  24-06-2017 14:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA - On the menu, the flavour profiles seemed incongruous: Chinese dumplings, Italian-style roast pork and a Mexican chicken dish featuring an edible weed.But when dinner was served, the guests ...
  
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• Melania Trump keeps DC entry low key; Barron draws interest

  24-06-2017 14:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly — two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian.But she's been busy ......
  
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• Anna Hansen’s kitchen: ‘it works perfectly. But I’ve only one regret’ | My kitchen

  24-06-2017 13:00
  
  Chef Anna Hansen finally got to design her own kitchen. The result? She likes everything but the kitchen sink ...We didn’t have to do a lot of work to the house when we bought it in 2014, but we did. Strangely, when faced with the possibility of designing my own kitchen, I realised I wasn’t actually sure what I wanted. It took a while to work it out, but we got there: it works perfectly. I’ve only one regret – the second sink we installed in the island, next to the hob &n
  
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• A showstopping chocolate cake recipe | King of puddings

  24-06-2017 13:00
  
  There is something of the Scarlet Pimpernel about this luscious chocolate cake: an aristocratic Gallic gateau that takes the breath away It happens every time. Nothing quiets the din of a great gathering, albeit briefly, like the appearance of chocolate cake. What music does to soothe a savage breast, so too does a chocolate cake with its ability to make the eyes of a crowd mist over. It inspires the familiar questions: how good is it? Is this even better than the last one? Was the chocolate ski
  
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• Plant of the week: Carthusian pink

  24-06-2017 12:00
  
  Not everyone likes bright pink flowers. But they’re wrongThis plant may have been named after an order of monks that dates back to the 11th century, but Dianthus carthusianorum is a particularly useful one for our small modern gardens. It has magenta flowers from now to late summer, held on slim stems around 40-50cm tall above a nest of strap-like leaves, and works well amid grasses in gravel and prairie gardens. As garden writer Val Bourne has noted, it has the sa
  
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• On Denmark's Jutland coast an elegant new museum counters a Nazi monolith

  24-06-2017 12:00
  
  The Tirpitz bunker has been a squat, dark presence on the dunes of West Jutland’s Blåvand since 1944. Now, it is part of a beautifully designed space to explore the region’s historyWest Jutland’s fields and poppy-strewn meadows stretch as far as the eye can see. In the distance there are sand dunes knotted with sea lyme and marram grass. It is a peaceful scene – but then you come across Tirpitz: a menacing fortification that was part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall
  
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• ‘It's a superpower’: meet the empaths paid to read your mind

  24-06-2017 12:00
  
  They feel your pain as if it were their own – and charge you £200 an hour to do so. Why has empathy become such a prized commodity?It is late on Friday at Piper’s diner in Koreatown, Los Angeles. David Sauvage, a slight 36-year-old man with an arresting stare, is preparing to empathise with me. “These aren’t ideal circumstances, but that’s OK,” he says. A few night owls busy themselves with eggs and tacos; a waiter carries a tray of drinks between booths
  
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• Ask Alys: can I grow blueberries without peat?

  24-06-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerI grow fruit and vegetables organically in my front garden in boarded raised beds. I would love to grow blueberries, but I know they need an acidic soil. How can I create a bed for them without using any peat-based products?
  Peat-free soil for acid-loving plants does exist, but you might not be able to get it from every garden centre you visit. The best one I’ve tried is made by Melcourt and is called SylvaGrow ericaceous compost
  
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• ‘There’s nothing I like more than cooking outdoors’ | A cook’s kitchen

  24-06-2017 11:00
  
  This makeshift alfresco kitchen kitted up with Argentine asado gear suits grill chef Steve Horrell perfectlyWe live in a 200-year-old barn in Somerset we are renovating. Opposite, we have another long barn with an old tin roof, oak posts and white stone gables, which we are slowly doing up too. While the renovations are happening, we’re using the outdoor area in front of it as something of a summer kitchen space.There’s nothing I like more than cooking outdoors: the firewood, the wea
  
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• ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober

  24-06-2017 11:00
  
  Tanya Gold used drink to drown out the destructive voice inside her head. Will she ever fully recover?It is easy to get morphine in University College hospital, London, if you are a good liar. It hurts, you tell the midwife, although you can’t feel anything, being so high on morphine already that someone could hit you with a sledgehammer and you would only laugh: what else you got? It was close to midnight on 13 August 2013, and I was on medical-grade opiates; nothing else can make you for
  
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• Crispy chicken thighs, curry chips, and spicy tofu with fried eggs | Guest cook

  24-06-2017 11:00
  
  Sichuan pepper and chilli turn tofu with fried eggs into a mean hangover cure, while cardamom and fennel make finger-licking crispy chicken thighsI grew up in Colliers Wood, two stops from the southern end of the Northern line. Just one stop north lies Tooting Broadway, where there are large and vibrant Indian and Pakistani communities. Whenever the Tiernan clan had something to celebrate, or wanted to eat somewhere fancy, we would go to Samrat Tandoori, a curry house on Mitcham Lane. The scent
  
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• '€5,000 would be a deterrent': the French minister who wants sexual harassment fines

  24-06-2017 10:30
  
  Meet Marlène Schiappa, the 34-year old blogger and novelist at the heart of Emmanuel Macron’s revolutionThe walk from the Gare du Nord across the Seine to France’s centre of power, a string of buildings off the Quai d’Orsay, takes a pleasant, circuitous hour: the route is a tourist’s dream. But for Marlène Schiappa, France’s freshly appointed gender equality minister, the streets of Paris are the frontline in a war between the sexes. Where I see boutiq
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s strawberry recipes

  24-06-2017 10:00
  
  This summer, think outside the box when cooking Britain’s favourite seasonal fruitThink of summer food, and chances are you’re picturing strawberries – a tart, perhaps, or just with cream or ice-cream. The link between the fruit and the season is perfect but predictable, so, rather than conjuring up yet more images of picnics and Pimm’s, I want to talk about the inspiration behind today’s recipe for strawberry ketchup.I came up with the idea earlier this year, when
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the downstairs neighbour

  24-06-2017 10:00
  
  You flooded me with noise, abuse, water, cigarette ends, rubbish and sewage, and you didn’t care that my life was being destroyedIt’s more than 10 years since you moved in upstairs and wrecked my life. I’m supposed to have put the nightmare into perspective by now, and friends think that I can laugh about your irrationality and terrifying temper. But I just unpacked some treasured, hand-knitted baby clothes, books and photos, all water-stained and ruined, and it brought it
  
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• I’ve always loved living in cities – but you have to tell yourself lies to get by

  24-06-2017 09:59
  
  The haves might live alongside the have-nots, but they are socially segregated – let’s not pretend otherwiseI grew up in Kensington – not the currently much-discussed if previously almost entirely ignored north part, but the south. The posh bit. The bit that was gifted £30m to make a nice bit of pavement while people in the north lived in a tower block wrapped in plastic-filled cladding to save £2 a square metre.Maybe it’s because I’m a gauche American w
  
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• Modern tribes: the frequent flyer

  24-06-2017 09:00
  
  I’d love to pay, but it’s ask for an upgrade or spend the flight in agony, I’m worried my groans would disturb the other passengersMorning, beautiful, how are you, yes, nice and early, just in case, well, we all like to turn left, yes, I know, wish I was a frequent flier, fact is, it’s my birthday, thank you most kindly –yes, I know the passport says it was five months ago, that’s why I wait for summer, better weather, so this year it’s New Yor
  
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• Beauty: after-sun lotions – soothing, but not miracle cures

  24-06-2017 09:00
  
  I’m more likely to use after-sun when the family’s feeling hot and sticky, as opposed to burnt I have mixed feelings about “after-sun” products. I realise people feel better for knowing that it’s on-hand in a (usually preventable) sunburn emergency and, like a bucket by the bed of a sick child, that it provides comfort and reassurance. But it has little real effect. What we’re usually paying for is standard moisturising body cream or cream-gel,
  
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• What links Tarka The Otter, The Hound Of The Baskervilles and Lorna Doone? The Weekend quiz

  24-06-2017 08:00
  
  From the brain to Bordeaux, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 “Nothing odd will do long” was Dr Johnson’s verdict on which novel?
  2 What was the first US city to host the Olympics?
  3 Which part of the brain is named for its resemblance to a seahorse?
  4 Who was protected by the Varangian Guard?
  5 Which painting was inspired by sculptor Thomas Woolner’s emigration?
  6 Who created the imaginary world of Gondal?
  7 Which spirit is produced only in Charente and Charente
  
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• East Sicily: what to see plus the best bars, beaches, restaurants and hotels

  24-06-2017 08:00
  
  With baroque palaces, fine beaches and Mount Etna, the Ionian coast is home to most of the island’s crown jewels – underpinned by glorious local food and drinkLight reflecting off churches and palaces, views of craggy mountains and blue sea, smells of orange blossom, oregano and mint … Sicily is an inspiring place, particularly for northern Europeans. “To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all,” said German writer Goethe in 1787
  
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• ‘Think about becoming a personal trainer’ – our work expert responds

  24-06-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help someone seeking a job in sport education, and a career swapper struggling to get a senior roleMy partner began a degree in PE and education but never completed it, partly because the course wasn’t right for him. After travelling abroad and doing a series of seemingly random jobs, he is back in the UK and working in an engineering job, which pays minimum wage, is very physically demanding and dangerous at times. Continue reading...
  
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• Man up, guys – you’re a snip away from being heroes

  24-06-2017 07:45
  
  I delayed getting my vasectomy for two years. This is typical of the way men strive to make women responsible for contraceptionIn the four years since my daughter was born it has become a regular and uncomfortable occurrence that my wife and I wait nervously for proof that we haven’t been caught out by our relaxed attitude to contraception. So I decided to put an end to it once and for all by having the snip. I made the decision some time ago, my wife and I having agreed that we didn&rsquo
  
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• Family life: My dad and grandad with Don the dog; Beethoven’s Rondo; Pat’s pavlova

  24-06-2017 07:45
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThe little boy in the pram is my father, Bernard Templeman Farr, born 1919, the gentleman is his father, Walter James Templeman Farr. The dog is Don. They are outside Farr’s, a dancing academy in Kings Road, Chelsea, London, where they also lived. Walter Farr and his wife, Gladys, were keen Temperance movement supporters and would not countenance alcohol on the premises, but were famed for the quality of their freshly ground coffee. Th
  
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• Micro-organisms ate my undershorts

  24-06-2017 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The atmosphere in our kitchen was electric Thursday morning, as I stared at the calendar thumbtacked to the pantry door.OK, I am lying about the atmosphere being electric. The truth ......
  
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• Portion control was mum’s mantra – with one glorious exception

  24-06-2017 07:30
  
  My mathematician Quaker mother controlled food strictly, but she took the brakes off once a year – in an explosion of chocolate and marzipanFood, as you’ll have gathered by now, was stringently portion-controlled in our family. The one time in the year Mum slightly let go was at Easter, which is probably why it’s still my favourite festival. What she thought would happen if we ate as much as we wanted on a regular basis was never explored, but on Good Friday morning we got two
  
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• To my wife and family, I apologise: how I lost £130,000 spread betting

  24-06-2017 07:15
  
  Teacher Chris Stringman started his secret gambling habit to boost his ego. But it became an obsession and soon he needed a way outSitting on the toilet, Chris Stringman stared intently at the rows of flashing numbers on the computer screen in front of him.It was 6.30pm. Downstairs, his partner, Claudia, was cooking dinner after a long day at the primary school where they both worked as teachers. Continue reading...
  
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• Why I love… comedian and actor Hasan Minhaj

  24-06-2017 07:00
  
  Talking about love, racism, Islamophobia and everything in between, he bounces from cynical to idealistic. It’s a winning formulaThe twin elements of my personality – Pollyanna optimism and bone-deep cynicism – are constantly at odds. Most days, I ask myself: are human beings generous and wonderful, or are they actually the worst thing on this godforsaken planet? It’s no wonder I’m an insomniac: there’s a war of attrition in my heart. But I’ve found
  
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• Why charming men can make dangerous lovers

  24-06-2017 07:00
  
  Sandra Horley, head of domestic violence charity Refuge, wrote a pioneering book on the abuse of women 25 years ago. She’s just republished it because the violence goes onOne day, in the mid-80s, Sandra Horley sat on a stool in her partner’s studio and told him what she was seeing at work. She described the women who were coming to her refuges (which she ran on an overdraft), their terror, the injuries they’d sustained at the hands of their partners – hit with hammers, ra
  
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• Blind date: ‘My appetite failed to join us’

  24-06-2017 07:00
  
  Did Alan, 50, commercial manager, and Isobel, 42, therapist and writer, hit it off?What were you hoping for?
  That my date wouldn’t come into view, take a look at me, turn on her heel and leave. Continue reading...
  
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• At women-only salon in Brooklyn, Muslim-Americans prepare for Eid

  24-06-2017 04:17
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nevien Shehadeh, 19, was one of many Muslim women who chose Le'Jemalik Salon and Boutique in New York's borough of Brooklyn on Friday to prepare for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
  
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• Microphone cut after Mormon girl reveals she's gay at church

  24-06-2017 02:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY - A video of a young Mormon girl revealing to her congregation that she is lesbian and still loved by God — before her microphone is turned ......
  
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• Sudoku killer 559

  24-06-2017 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.
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• Quick crossword No 14,705

  24-06-2017 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,232

  24-06-2017 01:00
  
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• Rapid learning

  24-06-2017 00:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OK, so maybe “crash course” is the last thing you want to hear when you’re a novice kayaker approaching a series of fast-moving rapids and your instructor chooses that particular ...
  
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• Andrew McConnell's gingerbread pudding recipe

  24-06-2017 00:18
  
  The chef shares one of the dishes that has made Melbourne’s Supernormal restaurant so popularAndrew McConnell’s lobster roll recipe
  I have time for most types of pudding in the winter but a pudding that contains ginger and treacle is another story. I love the aromatic addition of the spices. The pear brings a lovely texture and freshness. The deal breaker though is the chunks of candied stem ginger. Coming across these chunks of chewy sweet ginger in the pudding is a real treat.A cin
  
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