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• Thousands dance through Berlin to promote gay and lesbian rights

  22-07-2017 19:37
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of revelers danced through the streets of Berlin on Saturday, many of them waving rainbow-colored flags, as they promoted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in...
  
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• ‘It is ridiculous, but I find it so beautiful’ | A cook’s kitchen

  22-07-2017 11:00
  The happy hoarder chef Peter Gordon likes his pottery piled high and shelves well-stocked with memoriesI used to come to Broadway Market on Saturdays and think: I’d love to live in Hackney. I moved here six years ago – to possibly the only street in the East End that wasn’t bombed, which happens to look like Coronation Street. I have great neighbours – people who have lived here forever. When I moved in, I ripped out the hugely overgrown garden, and spent 10 weeks doing u
  
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• ‘Five friends go out and take ecstasy, one doesn’t come home’: the rise of super-strength pills

  22-07-2017 11:00
  Why are ecstasy deaths at their highest level in a decade?In a small, square garden behind a terraced house in Liverpool, Michelle Shevlin is showing me the tattoo she got soon after her only daughter died. “It already had the ‘Stephanie’,” she says, pointing to the name etched across her wrist. “Then I got the text of a Mother’s Day card she gave me: ‘A daughter holds your hand for a while, but holds your heart for ever.’”Her partner, Sharon
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s vegetable barbecue recipes

  22-07-2017 10:00
  There’s a lot more to barbecue than meat: all sorts of vegetables, and even fruit, benefit from time over the coals, tooThroughout all the seasons, and for many, many years now, I’ve been marking all sorts of ingredients with chargrilled stripes. Stalks of asparagus and sprouting broccoli, wedges of halloumi and feta, chunks of bread, red tomatoes, orange squash, white cauliflower: the effect of the chargrill is to make things look great – those smart, black lines – and t
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the burned-out businessman

  22-07-2017 10:00
  ‘I sailed on, hitting target after target, until one day I couldn’t do it any more’Everyone told me to be careful. “Watch out: you’re burning the candle at both ends.” “Maybe you could do with some support?” And I would wave them away dismissively. Of course I could cope. They hadn’t seen anything yet. So I sailed on, hitting target after target, making my company more successful than it had ever been until suddenly I couldn’t do i
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ summer fruit dessert recipes

  22-07-2017 10:00
  From nectarine tart to mango sorbet, summer puddings are all about making the most of seasonal fruitWhen the sun’s out, I find it hard to shake the feeling of perpetual summer. I’ll be in a state of shock come October, obviously, but for now I’ll happily bask in all the sun’s glory – and all the amazing fruit it brings with it. Tangy cherries collapse in a pan and stain a fool with their crimson juices; apricots bake in a clafoutis and get an emerald sparkle from ba
  
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• The expert's guide to the perfect meat barbecue

  22-07-2017 10:00
  Everything you need to know about grilling meat, from fuel to two-zone cooking, by Hawksmoor’s executive chef. Plus recipes for pre-meat-fest snacks and sauces to go alongside
  Barbecue, at its most basic, is an alchemy of wood, smoke and meat, so the fuel you use can dramatically affect flavour. Your best bet is to use lumpwood charcoal, made from high-quality hardwoods with none of the chemicals that help lesser charcoals burn. You can then add different hardwood chunks, depending on the
  
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• Summer cocktail and mocktail recipes

  22-07-2017 10:00
  Sunny days and balmy nights mean just one thing when the sun sets: a very cold, refreshing drink in a tall glass. Make yours a large one…Sauvignon blanc and elderflower share similar aroma profiles – gooseberry, orange blossom and lime – so it’s no surprise that they mix well. This is from Victoria Moore’s superb 2010 book How To Drink and is lovely for a sunny afternoon in the garden. Serves six to eight. Continue reading...
  
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• Sali Hughes’ favourite new beauty products for summer

  22-07-2017 09:00
  Summer isn’t just about pastel eyeshadow and fake tan, and this year there are some useful new products on the shelvesI have recently fallen for a number of new products, which is pretty unusual at this time of year, when brands are tiresomely preoccupied with pastel eye shadow and fake tan. The first is M&S Autograph Fibre Sculpting Brow Gel (£9.50), which I’d now like never to be without. For years I took the view that brow fix was simply hair gel
  
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• What did the Fisher King guard? The Weekend quiz

  22-07-2017 08:00
  From cosmic eggs to cimbalom, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What did Stan Cullis refuse to do in Berlin in 1938?
  2 The explosive Armstrong’s mixture is used in which festive item?
  3 Whose It Doesn’t Matter Anymore was the UK’s first posthumous No 1 single?
  4 Lemaître’s “cosmic egg” was the origin of which theory?
  5 What did the Fisher King guard?
  6 Which male problem is measured on the Hamilton-Norwood scale?
  7 What is the oldest part of the
  
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• ‘It's flavourful as hell’: welcome to Hawaii’s annual Spam festival

  22-07-2017 08:00
  In Britain it’s a joke. In Hawaii it’s a delicacy. Why does the luncheon meat have such a cult following?Not even the drizzle can deter the crowds unspooling along Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach. As late April showers fall upon Kalakaua Avenue, the roads are lined three-deep with sunburned tourists, surfer bros and silver-haired pensioners. Their colourful T-shirts, flower garlands and fancy dress costumes are soaked by rain, but eagerly they wait. Suddenly, a chorus of tiny ukuleles s
  
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• Should you tip in a restaurant regardless of quality?

  22-07-2017 07:59
  My partner says we should never leave a tip for bad food – but it wasn’t the server’s faultEvery 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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• A letter to … London, where my girlfriend and I could be out and proud

  22-07-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou’re the first place I visited, the first time I travelled out of my home country. When I applied for my visa, I saw your grandeur, I saw your authenticity and I longed to visit you. When I boarded my flight, I knew I was in for the trip of a lifetime. But do you know the most special thing about you? You let me be me, you let me live as me. It was just for a short while but nonetheless, you gave me the life I always wanted, for eight incredibly spect
  
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• I’m a control freak and a parent of four adults, who live with me. Something’s got to give …

  22-07-2017 07:44
  I don’t know where they go, when they’ll be back, or if they’ll even have any hair left when I open the door. And that’s not to mention the tattoosThe chaos of having premature twins changed me overnight from laidback dreamer to control freak. Bringing two tiny babies home, I immediately tipped the cats off the breadboard and got out the bleach. I wanted my house ringing with cleanliness. I couldn’t cope with loud noises – I talked in a whisper and turned
  
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• Public art ramps up the Cool factor

  22-07-2017 07:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Whenever I’m asked to don the artist’s beret and whip up a masterpiece for charity or some public exhibition, I know exactly what to do.I pause, take a deep breath, ......
  
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• Love, fear and Victoria sponge: why my son’s lost birthday cake made me sob

  22-07-2017 07:00
  Andrea Bennett sent her son to school with a cake to celebrate his 18th birthday and his life: his struggles and victories, the fears beaten and obstacles overcome. But it didn’t quite go to planI gave the cake to the taxi escort when she came to collect him for school. I know he’s a big boy – 18 already, I can hardly believe it – but he’s difficult to buy for, and it’s what he likes. I’d written in the home-school book that the cake would be c
  
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• Blind date: ‘There may have been a peck or two’

  22-07-2017 07:00
  Ben, 26 advertising product manager, meets Samantha, 21, actorWhat were you hoping for?
  Someone to have a good laugh with. Continue reading...
  
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• A sheep in shark's clothing

  22-07-2017 03:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Tucked away in one corner of the Manitoba Club’s posh billiards lounge is a patented device called a cue action trainer.Developed by Nic Barrow, one of the world’s foremost billiards ......
  
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• Sudoku killer 563

  22-07-2017 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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• Sudoku 3807 hard

  22-07-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.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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• Quick crossword No 14,729

  22-07-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,256

  22-07-2017 01:00
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