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• No winner of Powerball jackpot - prize grows to $650 million

  20-08-2017 17:06
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobody won a Powerball jackpot of $535 million in a draw on Saturday night, meaning the grand prize will grow to about $650 million, the second-highest level in the history of...
  
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• From ice cream to beer: why everything is being flavoured with fried chicken

  20-08-2017 15:00
  The fast food favourite has emerged as an oddball food trend over the last few years, much to the delight of enthusiastic chicken headsThe world of fried chicken has included bizarre flavour combinations ever since poultry was first hoisted on to a waffle and doused with syrup. But, in general, even the most outré lover of deep-fried fowl has not been keen on it lurking inside their beer or nestling greasily inside their dessert. Continue reading...
  
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• French designer in costly dispute over Pitt-Jolie chateau

  20-08-2017 13:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - A French lighting designer has won a $600,000 court ruling in a dispute with Brad Pitt over a grandiose re-design of the chateau in Provence that he and ......
  
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• Why is ketchup so delicious? Science answers the big food questions

  20-08-2017 12:30
  What’s good, what’s bad and why – five food questions answered by consultant cardiologist Ali Khavandi and science writer Dara MohammadiWhether you’re a dolloper or a Jackson Pollocker, a plate of chips just isn’t the same without a good squirt of ketchup. But why does it make chips taste so much better? It’s the same reason Iberico ham is more moreish than the boiled stuff and why a sprinkle of parmesan makes a bowl of pasta that much fresher. The answer is t
  
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• After Grenfell: a carnival to remember

  20-08-2017 10:30
  Following the fire at the west London tower block, there were new calls for the Notting Hill carnival to be relocated. But counting down to this year’s event, locals and carnival makers remain adamant that it should stay put – and pay respect to the victimsOn 6 July, three weeks after a still-unknown number of people died in the Grenfell Tower fire, Greg Hands MP, minister for London, wrote an open letter to London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, to ask whether it was “appropriate&r
  
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• When surgery is just a stitch-up

  20-08-2017 08:45
  With evidence mounting that many minor operations owe their success to the placebo effect, is it time to call a halt to some routine procedures?What’s the difference between a homeopath and a surgeon? It’s a question that sounds like a joke, and it won’t have many surgeons laughing. Homeopathy is the scientifically implausible idea that diluted substances can somehow treat disease: it has never been shown to work and any effect is, at very best, a placebo effect. It’s a w
  
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• Taylor Swift’s punch-the-air moment for girls

  20-08-2017 08:00
  Do not feel guilty about a man being punished for sexual assault, says the singerThe courtroom sketches of Taylor Swift giving testimony during a civil trial over an allegation that she was groped, are like fan art by someone who hates her. A sort of… face shape? You know, up, then round, then down. Then a bit of yellow, for the hair? A top! Let’s draw a top, a suggestion of a top. Arms? Mouth? Maybe, if we have time.She stands in court at the end of a story that started in 2013, wh
  
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• Stretching out summer floral colour

  20-08-2017 07:00
  Many plants fade at this time of year, but choose carefully and you can enjoy vibrant hues right through till OctoberAugust is probably my favourite month in the garden. The frenzy of sowing and planting that is spring and early summer is finally over, meaning you have much more time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labour. However, frustratingly, come late summer many traditional British garden plants can be looking long past their best, which is a bit of an annoying irony as you try to
  
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• Picture Fitzrovia, London: ‘Exceptionally good’ – restaurant review

  20-08-2017 07:00
  Abandoning his usual well-planned ways, Jay takes a last-minute chance on dinner – and to his surprise hits the jackpotPicture Fitzrovia, 110 Great Portland Street, London W1W 6PQ (020 7637 7892). Meal for two including drinks and service: £120
  As a restaurant critic, my body is not entirely my own; I sacrifice it weekly in the service of your reading pleasure. And then, through either self-denial or ugly straining in the gym, I declare war on the calories I have just eaten in the re
  
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• Nigel Slater’s bruschetta and taramasalata recipes

  20-08-2017 07:00
  For a light lunch, you can’t go wrong with Italy’s favourite antipasto. Just add tomatoes, feta or smoked cod’s roeA fresh, soft loaf is the one I like for bruschetta, slightly awkward to slice but better for getting a rough surface to each piece. The ridges and furrows of a badly cut slice of bread are far more interesting when toasted than a perfectly flat slice with its uniform brown. They are more interesting to eat, but also better for rubbing the cut side of a garlic clov
  
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• My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup

  20-08-2017 07:00
  It’s irresponsible behaviour you’ve put up with for many years. Your best bet now is to find a way of leaving home, says Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma I’ve lived with my stepfather for eight years. When I was a child he was kind but the older I get the more we resent each other. He can be aggressive, but what bothers me most is that he watches porn in the house, usually when my mum is out. When I was 13/14, I frequently heard him watching it on the PC very loudly. I even asked h
  
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• Colleges grappling with balancing free speech, campus safety

  20-08-2017 02:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - When Carl Valentine dropped off his daughter at the University of Virginia, he had some important advice for the college freshman: Don't forget that you are a ......
  
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• Millions of Americans to gaze upon Monday's once-in-a-lifetime eclipse

  20-08-2017 01:08
  (Reuters) - Twilight will fall at midday on Monday, stars will glimmer and birds will roost in an eerie stillness as millions of Americans and visitors witness the first total solar eclipse to...
  
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• U.S. colleges grappling with balancing free speech, campus safety

  20-08-2017 00:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - When Carl Valentine dropped off his daughter at the University of Virginia, he had some important advice for the college freshman: Don't forget that you are a ......
  
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