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• Dutch build vital new infrastructure: world's biggest bike parking lot

  21-08-2017 22:56
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The city of Utrecht in the cycling-mad Netherlands opened on Monday what it said would be the world's largest parking garage for bikes with room for 12,500 once completed next...
  
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• Britain's Big Ben falls silent for four years of renovation work

  21-08-2017 20:08
  LONDON (Reuters) - The "Big Ben" bell in the British parliament's famous clock tower tolled for the last time on Monday before it ceased its regular bongs for four years while renovation work is...
  
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• Syrian refugees in Germany name daughter Angela Merkel Muhammed

  21-08-2017 19:29
  BERLIN (Reuters) - A Syrian refugee family in Germany has named their newly born baby girl Angela Merkel Muhammed out of gratitude to the chancellor for her open-door asylum policy in 2015, hospital...
  
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• Migrant family in Germany names daughter after Angela Merkel

  21-08-2017 19:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BERLIN - Meet one of Germany's newest residents: Angela Merkel Muhammed.The little girl was born last week to a migrant couple who fled Syria's bloody war and decided to name ......
  
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• Philpott urges doctors to help improve health of most vulnerable patient groups

  21-08-2017 18:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  QUEBEC - Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says Canada's doctors have a major role to play in promoting the health of the country's most vulnerable populations.Philpott made her comments Monday ...
  
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• Ask Hadley: Why do older people hate millennials so much?

  21-08-2017 18:41
  Be it boobs or fertility, younger people will always think they know best – so, says our style expert, older people are bound to find the next generation self-entitled and arrogantI’m a millennial. Why do older people hate me so much?Charlotte, by email Continue reading...
  
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• Ready, set, slow! British Citroen 2CV enthusiasts stage 24-hour race

  21-08-2017 16:59
  SNETTERTON, England (Reuters) - Roaring engines and squealing tyres - though not especially great speeds - were the ordre du jour at a 24-hour endurance race in Britain celebrating one of history's...
  
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• Have you been paying the hair-and-makeup tax? You need Zadie Smith's 15-minute rule

  21-08-2017 16:34
  The author has said she limits her daughter’s mirror time – but the average British woman still spends four hours a week putting on her faceHow long did you spend in front of a mirror this morning? If you woke up in Zadie Smith’s house, it had better not have been more than 15 minutes. Speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival, Smith shared why she has given her seven-year-old daughter, Kit, the stringent quarter-of-an-hour limit: “I explained it to her in the
  
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• Should we buy as joint tenants or tenants in common?

  21-08-2017 15:30
  My partner has a child from a previous relationship and I worry it will affect future thinkingQ My partner and I (we are in a same-sex relationship of four years but no civil partnership) are buying a house for £377,500 as joint tenants. We have a baby together and will shortly be trying for another child. My concern is that she has an adult son who is likely to have financial difficulties in the future. I worry that if I die before her, she may feel obliged to leave a large share of the p
  
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• Defining a Style Series: Modern Coastal

  21-08-2017 15:00
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.We’re giving coastal design a modern makeover. Image: Carolyn Thayer InteriorsShop a similar look: Lamps | Side Tables | Pillows | ChairsOver the years, coastal design has gotten a little bit of a bad rep. This light and breezy style has become synonymous with overstuffed rooms and kitschy, dated accessories. However, that assumption could not be further from
  
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• Serve spicy sauteed fish with pineapple mango salsa

  21-08-2017 14:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  When it comes to landing dinner on the table on a weeknight, fish fillets are among the very quickest dishes you can prepare, rarely requiring more than five minutes to ......
  
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• Specially brewed beer for dogs on menu in Croatia's only beach bar for dogs

  21-08-2017 14:27
  CRIKVENICA, Croatia, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Specially brewed beer made of chicken and vegetables and ice cream made from bananas, peanuts, yogurt and soy milk are top items on the menu in Croatia's...
  
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• Will starting your own business make you happy?

  21-08-2017 13:26
  Everyone wants to enjoy their job, but what underlying psychological factors increase your chances of being a happy worker? For some, becoming self-employed was the answer
  Starting your own business can be a leap of faith, but freelance food photographer and stylist Jade Sarkhel says she’s never been happier: “It’s so much more satisfying if you know you’re building something for yourself. I’m now earning three or four times what I did in a full-time job and I&rsquo
  
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• Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria

  21-08-2017 13:07
  RILA MOUNTAINS, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Lilya Ivanova, a 29-year-old Bulgarian psychologist, glows with joy. She has just finished a ritual dance along with some 2,500 white-clad followers of the...
  
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• Anna Jones’s recipes for arroz de tomate and sweet potato cakes | The modern cook

  21-08-2017 13:00
  As our columnist makes her annual trip to Portugal, she shares two dishes picked up on previous visits, both to be made time and again: a piquant tomato rice and an Algarvian sweet potato cakeEvery August, we spend a couple of weeks on the wild south-west coast of Portugal. These holidays have a kind of ease that only comes from time spent in the same place: the comfort of repetition.I have grown fond of Portuguese food. It is simple and homely, boldly flavoured and uncomplicated to execute. Lik
  
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• Anna Jones’s recipes for arroz con tomate and sweet potato cakes | The modern cook

  21-08-2017 13:00
  As our columnist makes her annual trip to Portugal, she shares two dishes picked up on previous visits, both to be made time and again: a piquant tomato rice and an Algarvian sweet potato cakeEvery August, we spend a couple of weeks on the wild south-west coast of Portugal. These holidays have a kind of ease that only comes from time spent in the same place: the comfort of repetition.I have grown fond of Portuguese food. It is simple and homely, boldly flavoured and uncomplicated to execute. Lik
  
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• Crossword blog: Cracking the Cryptics in real-time on YouTube

  21-08-2017 11:48
  Is cryptic solving a spectator sport? You decideA few tournaments back, I used these pages to describe the experience of watching its serial champion winning still another Times Crossword Championship:A samurai in civvies, the figure of Mark Goodliffe compels the gaze as powerfully as his mind commands the stubbornest crossword clue ... Continue reading...
  
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• Nigel Slater’s late summer fruit recipes

  21-08-2017 09:00
  Canteloupe gazpacho, nectarine tabbouleh and sausage wellington with plum sauce: celebrate the season’s bounty while you canLate summer is the high point of the fruit season. The berries and currants are still with us, the melons are plentiful and cheap and the plums just coming into their own. I am celebrating this bounty, not just with cakes and salads, but with main dishes too. A fat, spiced sausage roll with plum sauce, a refreshing parsley and nectarine salad and a fabulous chilled so
  
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• I’m a 27-year-old virgin – should I see an escort?

  21-08-2017 09:00
  I had a difficult childhood and although I am now on medication and doing much better, I feel so much shame and regretI am a 27-year-old virgin and have never had a relationship. This causes me a lot of shame and regret. I had a difficult childhood and have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, depression and generalised anxiety. I am finally on medication and am finding socialising less difficult, but I feel so inadequate. I am seriously considering seeing an escort
  
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• Honesty box – or dishonesty box?

  21-08-2017 09:00
  The light-fingered might take advantage of the honesty box, but for the creative cook it provides a roadside recipe challengeOur garden is fairly dinky: no room, really, for veg, though at one end there does stand a senior and increasingly frail-looking plum tree. Nevertheless, this year we have an unaccountable surfeit of green stuff, some flowers having self-seeded to an almost freakish degree. Digging up a few, Derek, who visits once a year in order bravely to wrestle our triffid-like wisteri
  
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• How I learned to stop worrying and listen to my hormones

  21-08-2017 08:00
  I thought getting an app to track my menstrual cycle was ridiculous, but its revelations have explained so much about my personalityI’m sitting in a coffee shop in LA when my friend Lou says, “Give me your phone and I’ll download an app that tracks your menstrual cycle,” like we’re suddenly starring in a uniquely naff advert for solipsism in the 21st century.I look around in case anyone has heard us. “Why on earth would I want that”, I mutter to her. My
  
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• Can adults develop food allergies?

  21-08-2017 08:00
  A new study shows that allergies to foods can start in grownups, and unlike childhood allergies, they usually persistYou have always loved prawns, but suddenly they make your mouth tingle. You bite into an apple and your throat feels itchy and tight. But surely they can’t be food allergies if you have eaten them all your life without problems? Should you ignore the symptoms, or cross prawn cocktails and apples off the menu? Continue reading...
  
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• Beware Admiral’s policy when it comes to speed awareness courses

  21-08-2017 07:59
  When I said I’d been on one, my insurance quote shot up by £50In a search for car insurance I called Admiral. The agent asked if I had been on any speed awareness courses – I wasn’t quick enough to decline to answer. When I said “yes” the quote increased by £50. The whole point of the courses is that they are an alternative to prosecution – and no record is kept. My course provider, DriveTech, says it does not share details as it is information not
  
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• Even tough guys like me can be dental wusses

  21-08-2017 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  You are going to be insanely jealous when you hear what I did this past weekend.I went shopping for a new toothbrush.Yes, I know, my life is extremely exciting. Before ......
  
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• From porridge to blackout blinds to Colin Firth reading Graham Greene – how you beat insomnia

  21-08-2017 07:00
  We asked readers how they got a good night’s sleep and this is what they said …The slightest stress or worry and I would lie awake for hours, unable to drop off. Then I started doing one simple thing – times tables. I started with the 13 times table in my head until I could recite it without pausing, then moved on to the 14 times table and so on. It was enough to distract my brain from whatever was worrying me and allowed me to get to sleep. I am astounded at the differen
  
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• Sudoku 3832 easy

  21-08-2017 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 14,754

  21-08-2017 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,281

  21-08-2017 01:00
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