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• At Maltese festival, climbing the greasy pole is part of the fun

  27-08-2017 20:46
  ST JULIAN'S, Malta (Reuters) - For more than a century, locals in the small Maltese town of St Julian's have celebrated their patron saint by running up a steeply angled log, smeared with lard,...
  
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• London's Notting Hill Carnival remembers Grenfell Tower fire

  27-08-2017 18:31
  LONDON (Reuters) - Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest street party in Europe, fell silent for a minute on Sunday to remember the more than 80 people who were killed in June in an apartment block fire...
  
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• Tiny museum seeks to revive interest in forgotten artist

  27-08-2017 18:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho-born landscape painter who travelled the world on the strength of his sales, had one-man shows in New York and commissioned a studio by famed architect ......
  
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• Egg-vocados: we’ve gone so mad-for-cado, we’ll buy even the little ones

  27-08-2017 18:00
  Tiny versions of the fruit, which would have previously been rejected by farmers, are now being sold in cartons of six in an effort to reduce food wasteName: The Egg-vocado.Age: As old as regular avocados. Continue reading...
  
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• Can computers enhance the work of teachers? The debate is on

  27-08-2017 14:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Can computers enhance the work of teachers? The debate is on.As schools struggle to raise high school graduation rates, innovators tout digital technology in the classroom as a ......
  
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• Improved treatment allowing more HIV-positive women to get pregnant: study

  27-08-2017 13:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - Lisa Partridge was 14 when she learned she was HIV-positive.The teenager living in Comox, B.C., underwent a tainted blood transfusion when she was an infant in Romania. When ...
  
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• Nigel Slater’s blackberry recipes

  27-08-2017 13:00
  Blackberry season has arrived, meaning a rich sharpening for a roast pork and a sweet sauce for buttery peaches
  The persistent bramble that appears from the old garden wall refuses to fruit, which makes its annual appearance all the more irksome. Blackberries have previously fruited well on the damp, shaded side of this garden, tied on to rusty frames, as juicy as they were reliable. But the haul was never quite enough to justify their presence and they lost out to a flirtatious Hydrangea panicu
  
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• A first: Drug lowers heart risks by curbing inflammation

  27-08-2017 11:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  For the first time, a drug has helped prevent heart attacks by curbing inflammation, a new and very different approach than lowering cholesterol, the focus for many years.People on the ......
  
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• Why I’m proud to ride an e-bike

  27-08-2017 11:00
  They speed you uphill, and get you to work or the shops without sweat. Yet detractors still cry ‘cheat’. Here we test the latest e-bikes, and whiz past outdated macho attitudes to cyclingThe idea of power-assisted cycling seems to exasperate some people. When I talk about e-bikes, I hear: “It’s cheating!” and “The point of cycling is exercise.” It’s not cheating because we are not racing, life is not a competition and neither is going to the shops.
  
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• ‘Would you kill my mother for me?’: a dark case of abuse and revenge

  27-08-2017 09:30
  Dee Dee Blanchard forced her healthy daughter Gypsy to use a wheelchair and fabricated endless medical emergencies for her. Then Gypsy found a boyfriend, and made a grisly plan to escape her mother and start a new life. Erin Lee Carr tells a deeply disturbing story of Munchausen by proxy and murderI have four VHS tapes in a large ziplock bag. They are family home movies, but not of my family. The label of one tape reads simply “Gypsy”. A little girl appears in the centre of the frame
  
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• Damage limitation as I try to find out why Uber sent me £110 car ‘cleaning bill’

  27-08-2017 08:00
  After an uneventful journey home, it claims the seat was stained and the picture it sent was meaninglessI got an Uber car home and it was a completely uneventful trip. The next morning an email from Uber said there had been an incident that required the car to be cleaned and that it had taken £110 from my account. When I disputed the claim it sent a picture of a stained car seat and I received notification, via the app, that the case had been resolved. I’m getting no replies by email
  
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• Will Bangkok's street food ban hold?

  27-08-2017 07:00
  The Thai capital is famous for its street food – but now the authorities are seeking to strictly curtail it. Nic Dunlop wonders whyBangkok, one of the world’s foodie capitals, caters to almost every taste, whether fine French cuisine or fresh sushi. But for tourists and locals alike, it is Thai street food that really makes the city such a culinary delight.The authorities planned to purge the city of street food, in the interests of 'cleanliness, safety and order' Continue reading...
  
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• When Hillary Clinton came to Shirley Williams's aid on Woman’s Hour

  27-08-2017 07:00
  It’s 2014, there are serious matters to discuss, everything from Monica Lewinsky to Benghazi, but the former presidential candidate has something to say first…It was 2014. Hillary Clinton had failed to win the nomination to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate. Barack Obama had become president. She’d served for four years as his secretary of state. In a long life played out in public she’d been a lawyer, First Lady, humiliated but loyal wife, mother, senator r
  
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• The enduring appeal of autumn raspberries

  27-08-2017 07:00
  Sweet, aromatic, heavily fruiting, easy to grow – raspberries are a late summer winnerSome people say summer is all about strawberries but for me, when it comes to home-grown fruit, raspberries have them beaten hands down.Autumn-flowering raspberries are the endurance athletes of the species Continue reading...
  
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• The bald truth about shaving off pubic hair | Eva Wiseman

  27-08-2017 07:00
  More people than ever are opting to go without pubic hair. But what you don’t know is how many are injuring themselves in the processThe revelations in a new American report on pubic grooming just keep on coming. Perhaps it’s no surprise to you that 76% of people get rid of their pubic hair. Evict it, extract it, uproot it, remove it. Perhaps you too keep a pube-free home, and pride yourself on a paved front lawn, so to speak.“So to speak.” I’m sorry for the “
  
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• My son is getting married and I’m not invited | Mariella Frostrup

  27-08-2017 07:00
  Mariella Frostrup suggests that a mother excluded from her son’s wedding tackles long-standing family discordThe dilemma My son and his girlfriend live in New Zealand and are returning to the UK to get married (not legally binding because of residency requirements), then returning to NZ for what I assumed would be a quiet registry office affair. Having not been invited to my son’s first marriage, I’ve been very involved in planning this ceremony. They’ve asked me to be a
  
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• How our desires shape our beliefs | Tali Sharot

  27-08-2017 07:00
  We love to talk and want to be listened to, but we stand less and less chance of being believedPeople love propagating information and sharing opinions. You can see this online: every day, 4m new blogs are written, 80m new Instagram photos are uploaded and 616m new tweets are released into cyberspace. It appears that the opportunity to impart your knowledge to others is internally rewarding.A study conducted at Harvard University found that people were willing to forgo money so that their opinio
  
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• Fancy Crab, London: ‘A terrible waste of time’ – restaurant review

  27-08-2017 07:00
  Red king crabs are seafood royalty. How can this place dedicated to consuming them get it all so horribly wrong?
  92 Wigmore Street, London W1U 3RD (020 3096 9484). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £150
  Eating crab, like building kitchen extensions and sex, is very messy when done properly. You have to roll up your sleeves and abandon yourself to the mucky business at hand, with hammer, crackers and pick. The white meat must be hard won, the brown meat scooped from nooks and cran
  
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• Beauty spot: a slash of white for dreamy eyes

  27-08-2017 07:00
  Inspired by Valentino’s couture show, white eyeliner is making its markAt Valentino’s couture show, the inimitable Pat McGrath made the case for white eyeliner as a neutral. Each model was made up slightly differently, with graphic slashes and delicate dabs, but all wore white eyeliner, to dramatic and dreamy effect. Luckily there are plenty of affordable options, so everyone can experiment, wildly. Continue reading...
  
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• Barber & Osgerby, dynamic design duo

  27-08-2017 07:00
  The men at the top of one of Britain’s leading design firms tell Becky Sunshine how it all came down to collaboration
  Award-winning designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby met at the Royal College of Art in 1992, where they were studying architecture. But it turned out that neither was really interested in skyscrapers.Every single thing starts in this studio with the two of us. It’s the only way we know how to work Continue reading...
  
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• Stefano Manfredi's banana and macadamia sweet calzone recipe

  27-08-2017 03:56
  With credit to fellow Italian-Australian Gianluca Donzelli, the chef offers his take on a delicious dessert pizza• Stefano Manfredi’s Roman pizza with eggplant parmigiana recipeWe know how cleverly inventive the Neapolitans are. The various pizza permutations – from filled and fried to sweet pizze – are derived from their traditions. You can imagine that the classic filled pizza, the calzone, came about by simply folding the round pizza dough in half, enclosing the ingredi
  
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• Reasons to wear... a statement dress – in pictures

  27-08-2017 00:50
  This is the ideal multi-season dress. Wear it with long boots to give a hard edge for colder months. Choose from a bold print or embellished detail, and keep accessories to a minimum Continue reading...
  
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