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• Lanvin fuses sartorial and street to cap Paris menswear week

  25-06-2017 22:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - Actress Gabrielle Union joined French actor Reda Kateb on the front row of the edgy Lanvin show at Paris Fashion Week.Here are some highlights from Sunday, the last ...
  
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• Bond Street: status of UK's most exclusive shopping street under threat

  25-06-2017 21:31
  
  Soaring rents and rates are pushing retailers including Dolce & Gabbana, Hugo Boss and DKNY to think about moving outThe status of Bond Street as the UK’s most exclusive shopping destination is under threat, as one in four retailers on the famous street consider shutting up shop and moving out as a result of high rents and business rates.About 25 of the 100 top fashion brands with stores on Old and New Bond Street are understood to have flagged to the property market that they are read
  
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• Activists kept from gathering en masse for Istanbul Pride

  25-06-2017 20:19 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ISTANBUL - Turkish police stopped activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights from gathering in large numbers for an LGBT pride event in Istanbul on Sunday, but smaller ...
  
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• 'Into the Gray Zone' details journey to tap into consciousness of vegetative patients

  25-06-2017 16:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Imagine being fully conscious, fully aware, but trapped inside your body with no ability to move at will or communicate with loved ones or health-care providers — with ......
  
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• Banning of junk food sales in Canadian schools having a positive effect: study

  25-06-2017 15:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HALIFAX - In Canada's ongoing battle against childhood obesity, one simple weapon appears to be working.Over the past 12 years, six provinces have banned junk food from schools, and a ......
  
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• Lanvin fuses sartorial and street for edgy menswear show

  25-06-2017 15:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - Actress Gabrielle Union joined French actor Reda Kateb on the front row of the edgy Lanvin show at Paris Fashion Week.Here are some highlights from Sunday, the last ...
  
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• Eid al-Fitr around the world – in pictures

  25-06-2017 14:44
  
  Muslims mark the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting Continue reading...
  
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• Pão de queijo is the history of Brazil in a moreish cheese snack

  25-06-2017 14:00
  
  Indigenous Brazilians, African slaves and European farmers all influenced the evolution of these tasty cheese balls from the state of Minas GeraisAt almost every Brazilian gathering you’ll find pão de queijo (pronounced pow-ge-kay-ju) on the table: small golden cheese balls with a crunchy crust, a light, fluffy centre and a slightly tart flavour. They are similar to French gougère but are naturally gluten free.Its culinary roots can almost certainly be traced back to the land
  
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• Pain drove B.C. woman and 'thousands' to street drugs after medication cut off

  25-06-2017 13:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  VANCOUVER - Desperate for relief from unbearable pain following knee surgery, Lorna Bird says she was forced to buy drugs from the Downtown Eastside streets of Vancouver when her doctor ......
  
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• Public, New York: the five-star hotel for half the price | Eva Wiseman

  25-06-2017 13:00
  
  Veteran hotelier Ian Schrager’s new venture in Manhattan takes luxury down a notch. Eva Wiseman checks inHe calls it “accessible luxury”, and this is Ian Schrager’s latest big idea. The first was Studio 54, where elitist hedonism was born behind a velvet rope. The second, which he came up with in prison, doing time for tax evasion, was the “boutique hotel”. Schrager is the man responsible for purple feature walls, for lobbies that double as local cocktail bars
  
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• Nigel Slater’s cherry pie and cake recipes

  25-06-2017 13:00
  
  Delicous on ice, in a cordial or off the tree, cherries are also great cooked
  We went in search of cherries: punnet after punnet of dark, sweet fruits, cheap enough for us to boil up a batch of jam. The pickers had been at work before breakfast, teetering on tall ladders, their heads hidden in the canopy of leaves. We ignored the dead blackbird that hung ominously from the gate and went in. I was struck by how cool it was under those trees, a good few degrees cooler than in the open, and we sat
  
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• DC institution Ben's Chili Bowl repaints famous mural – without Bill Cosby

  25-06-2017 13:00
  
  At a Washington eatery that sits at the heart of the black culture and history it celebrates, the entertainer’s fall from grace poses painful questionsPeople stopped, stared and posed for photos. A colourful mural on the side of Ben’s Chili Bowl restaurant, a lynchpin of African American life in Washington, included Barack and Michelle Obama, Muhammad Ali, Prince and Harriet Tubman. It included actor Taraji P Henson and rapper Wale. But one prominent local figure was missing.“I
  
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• Istanbul Pride march to go on despite governor's ban

  25-06-2017 12:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ISTANBUL - Activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights say they will march for Pride in Istanbul, despite a ban by the governor's office.Organizers of the 2017 Istanbul ...
  
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• Is your dog just chasing its tail – or is it obsessive?

  25-06-2017 08:30
  
  Lots of dogs chase their tails – but for some the behaviour is a sign of the canine version of OCD. Now scientists are finding the minds of dogs and humans might be more closely linked than we thoughtCuriously, and perhaps eagerly, I am looking at a bull terrier named Sputnik, searching for a resemblance. He’s a stocky three-year-old, mostly slate grey, with a white stripe on his head and a pink splotch on his elongated, bull-terrier nose. So far, our only similarity is we’re b
  
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• Serene summer in Finland’s centenary national park

  25-06-2017 08:00
  
  The Nordic country’s newly opened Hossa national park has all the wilderness an adventure traveller – or a bear – could desireIn a hide two miles from the Russian border in Finland’s Suomussalmi region, we watch and wait. For centuries, the European brown bear has been pushed by deforestation into increasingly remote areas, to do what a bear proverbially does in woods. Luckily, in Finland, where 76% of the land mass is dense forest, a bear doesn’t have to go very fa
  
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• Why stop at essence of Ikea? Let’s map our lives in scents

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  The smell of lunches at big school, hand sanitiser in a hospital and strawberry lip balm in Topshop – these are the markers that stay with usOccasionally a brand will tout something that makes me look over my shoulder with a humid fear that they are watching me and marketing accordingly. In a move that I’m sure will feel curiously personal for many, Ikea has announced plans to release its own fragrance. It makes perfect sense that a company that has carved such an important place in
  
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• Vegans, vegetarians and now… reducetarians

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  For anyone who has tried to cut out meat entirely and failed, there’s a new movement which tries to take a more pragmatic approachUnlike drinking, exercise and home cooking, being vegetarian is seen as a black-and-white deal. You either are or you aren’t. Go meat free all year and you’re a vegetarian; eat one chicken burger on New Year’s Eve and you’ve failed.
  According to the Vegan Society, there were three and a half times as many vegans in 2016 as 10 years earlie
  
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• Top tips for holiday-proofing houseplants

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  How to help your beloved, fragile plants face up to two untended weeks while you swan off to the MedI’m off on holiday in a couple of weeks. Believe me, I really can’t wait for the escape. But for obsessive houseplant collectors like me, going away at the height of the growing season can be tinged with anxiety. Given the fact that I am currently watering my growing army of ferns, orchids, carnivorous plants and herbs virtually every day in hot weather, a two-week absence could be eno
  
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• This week, we love to buy… | Alice Fisher and Eva Wiseman

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  From Georgia May Jagger style to Howard Hodgkin rugs and dinky wireless headphones, these are some of the things we love this weekGeorgia May Jagger is pretty stoked to have created a range for cool sports brand Volcom, inspired by skate culture and 70 styling. Available now. Volcom x GMJ range from £35, zalando.co.uk Continue reading...
  
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• The happiest campers

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  Reclaimed wood, stained glass, pretty tiles… Handcrafted conversions are giving old vans a new lifeOld removal vans don’t conjure up a vision of happy holidays. Yet increasingly these vehicles are being lovingly converted and handcrafted into camper vans that are used both for rent and as permanent homes.There’s a growing trend for people wanting something handcrafted and handmade Continue reading...
  
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• The eco guide to performance wear

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  You’d expect mountain climbers to be great champions of the environment, but their high-performance clothing is a chemical nightmareThere’s a long-standing rivalry between surfers and climbers as to who is the greenest. For my money, surfers have the edge. They’ve influenced environmentalism at large, making their issues – sewage and plastic – ours.Greenpeace has found noxious chemicals in the air around outdoor clothing shops Continue reading...
  
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• Noble: restaurant review

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  There’s an art to not showing off, and when your food is this good, you don’t need to shout about it. Jay Rayner heads to Noble, just outside Belfast
  Noble, 27a Church Road, Holywood, County Down BT18 9BU (028 9042 5655). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £90It’s one of those midsummer’s evenings in Northern Ireland when dusk lingers, as if ambivalent to the concept of night ever falling. The roads are shower slicked and the verges smell of earth and damp
  
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• My husband refuses to drive our car and it’s driving me crazy

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  A woman is frustrated at being the only one to deal with the household car. Mariella says her anger might be down to their general division of labourThe dilemma I have been with my husband for 10 years and he is an amazing man and a fabulous father to our kids (with another on the way). He never learned to drive as a teenager and after uni he moved to London so never needed to. Four years ago he took a year of lessons and passed first time, but it’s now at least two years since he has driv
  
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• Is there a link between fitness and socialism? – personality quiz | Ben Ambridge

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  What does your exercise regime say about your views on society? Answer these questions to find outWhat’s the link between your exercise regime and how you feel society should be run? To find out, simply answer the following question on a six-point scale.Approximately how much time per week do you spend lifting weights, in order to build muscle? (a) None (b) less than an hour (c) 1-2 hours (d) 2-3 hours (e) 3-4 hours (f) more than 4 hours. Continue reading...
  
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• Brain power: what makes us sweat? | Daniel Glaser

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  We have no voluntary control over how much or when we sweat – it’s all down to the vagaries of the English summerWriting on the hottest day of the year so far, sweat was never going to be very far from my mind. This is literally true: our brains are connected to every one of the innumerable sweat glands in our skins by neural pathways.This regulation means that our evaporation cooling systems can respond to temperature changes very rapidly. No matter how hard we may try, we have no v
  
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• Are you in with the in crowd? | Mitch Prinstein

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  The way we deal with popularity at school stays with us for life. But, asks Mitch Prinstein, is it our true self?At an early point in childhood, we all worked out how popular we really were. Either we knew we were admired and began to worry about maintaining our special influence over others, or we recognised that others were more popular than us and began to seek more attention.Our positions in the social hierarchy seemed so important back then, and for good reason: popularity is the most valua
  
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• Crémant, more fizz for your buck

  25-06-2017 06:59
  
  There’s more to French sparkling wine than champagne, and these days growers from other regions give the famous names a real run for their moneyLidl Crémant de Bourgogne, France NV (£7.99, Lidl) Champagne so dominates the view of French sparkling wine that it rather obscures other regions with their own long-standing interpretations of the fizz tradition. But in recent years the quality of crémant wines made in the same bottle-fermented way as those in the northern regi
  
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• Five ways to wear... a white dress – in pictures

  25-06-2017 01:07
  
  The white dress might seem high maintenance but it can work hard in your wardrobe. Tap into street style by half-buttoning it over trousers or add metallic accessories for evening glamour Continue reading...
  
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• How halal meat became big business

  25-06-2017 00:30
  
  Demand from Muslim millennials combined with public disaffection over recent food scandals sees Islamic food go mainstreamOn an industrial estate on the outskirts of Swansea, a small revolution is taking place. Lewis Pies, a family firm that has been making British staples such as beef and onion pies, traditional pasties and sausage rolls for more than 80 years, has turned over a third of its business to halal products over the past decade to meet burgeoning demand. According to the managing dir
  
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