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• Egypt archeologist unearth goldsmith's tomb near Luxor

  09-09-2017 19:31
  LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a tomb of a prominent goldsmith who lived more than 3,000 years ago, unearthing statues, mummies and jewelry in the latest major find...
  
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• Hurricanes drive addiction issues into public square

  09-09-2017 18:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  In the whirr of preparations for Hurricane Irma, a needle exchange program in Miami's Overtown neighbourhood handed out extra syringes to heroin users. Others trying to break from the drug's ......
  
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• Chrissie Wellington: ‘every race I've entered, something's hurting’

  09-09-2017 15:00
  The multiple world champion Ironman triathlete, 40, on the will to succeed, training too hard and the pleasure of snoring in bedAll my world championships were special for different reasons [Wellington won the World Ironman title four times]. But it was in the first one that I surpassed all my expectations. It was such a surprise to everyone – including me. It changed my life for ever.At school I was extremely focused. I always wanted to achieve the highest grades and to beat as many peopl
  
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• ‘These pasta gadgets have become a signature thing for us’ | A cook’s kitchen

  09-09-2017 13:00
  With everything on display, ingredients and utensils take centre stage in Michelin-star chef Phil Howard’s kitchenWe’ve been living here in Barnes for 17 years. Our overhaul of the kitchen meant a lot of decluttering. It’s a simple space, but the kind of kitchen I like to work in. There are no wall cupboards full of spices that have been festering for 25 years: everything is exposed, out, stored in kilner jars. Nothing can be hidden.That’s a proper French farmhouse table
  
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• The Importance of Sight Lines in Interior Design (They’re More Important Than You Think)

  09-09-2017 13:00
  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. Sight lines are a key principle of interior design. Image: CL InteriorsShop a similar look: Sofas | Lamp | PlanterOften, when interior design fundamentals are discussed, you hear about concepts like balance and contrast. While these principles are vital to a successful design, we think there’s one other subject that doesn’t get enough credit &mdas
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for apple and almond tart | King of puddings

  09-09-2017 13:00
  Filled to the brim with crisp apples, and accompanied by an indecent amount of jersey cream, there’s no delight quite like a freshly baked tartAllens Farm was a favourite of mine, supplying me often with good produce from their Kentish cherry orchard. Tucked away behind high-banked roads near Sevenoaks, it was famous primarily for cobnuts, but produced a host of marvellous fruit boughs, too. The trees – instead of growing in serried ranks, standing to attention – were wonderful
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for coconut rice with aubergines and pickled cucumber

  09-09-2017 10:30
  Malaysian food bowls me over, so I’ve been recreating those extraordinary sweet, sour and hot flavours at homeOne of the reasons I live in London, despite knowing that the grass is much greener beyond the M25, is that I can travel anywhere in the world through the city’s food. Within a 10-minute walk of home, I can be eating bouncy, hand-pulled noodles from the northern Chinese province of Xinjiang, smoky aubergines cooked over coals by Anatolian Turks, or Nigerian fried yam.In many
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the pregnant grieving mother

  09-09-2017 10:00
  I’m sad this pregnancy won’t be one of happy anticipationLast time, I told everyone straight away. I was thrilled and saw no point in waiting for three months, by which point many people have guessed anyway. I knew that if I had an early miscarriage I would want to talk to friends, so it would be better if they knew I was pregnant.But this time I don’t want to tell anyone. People smile and say things like, “You must be thrilled!” I can see some friends think my news
  
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• Two footballers’ marriages are in trouble – why are the media narratives so different?

  09-09-2017 10:00
  Wayne Rooney’s wife, Coleen, is ‘humiliated’, while Jamie Redknapp is ‘carrying on’ after his wife Louise left himHere is a tale of two marriages, both involving footballers, both of which came a little unstuck this summer. On the one side is Wayne Rooney, a man who never seemed overly burdened with an interest in marital fidelity. Last week, while his pregnant wife and three sons were away on holiday, Rooney was caught driving over the limit accompanied by a y
  
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• Maria Sharapova on failing that drug test: ‘I felt trapped, tricked’

  09-09-2017 10:00
  When she was banned from tennis, her career looked over. She talks frankly about how she came back fightingScroll down for an extract from Sharapova’s autobiography
  We are back where it all began: 5500 34th Street West, Bradenton, Florida. This is where six-year-old Masha Sharapova and her father Yuri turned up 24 years ago, begging to be given a chance at the tennis club for rich kids run by the legendary coach Nick Bollettieri.You can still smell the privilege. A security man at the impo
  
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• Beauty: why the new launches for autumn 2017 are keepers | Sali Hughes

  09-09-2017 09:00
  From L’Oréal’s new mascara to YSL’s concealer, the new season is looking very good indeedMy makeup bag goes through phases. Out come a few things, to be replaced briefly by testers. More rarely, I glance inside and see that I’ve unwittingly replaced just about everything with fresh launches whose quality is sufficiently high to bed in for the long haul.Autumn 2017 is one of those seasons. Among the first and most unexpected keepers is L’Oréal Paris&rsq
  
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• What links Crab, Eagle, Horsehead, Cat’s Eye and Red Rectangle? The Weekend quiz

  09-09-2017 08:00
  From Sam Browne to Manfred Mann, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz. Answers below
  1 What posthumous first took place in Woking on 26 March 1885?
  2 Buckminsterfullerene is a form of which element?
  3 Which British TV staple is based on France’s Des Chiffres et des Lettres?
  4 Which sport is exempt from US anti-monopoly laws?
  5 Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum And The Sword was a study of what?
  6 Who would wear a Sam Browne?
  7 In the smartphone scanning code, what do the letters
  
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• How do we deal with overhanging trees in our garden?

  09-09-2017 08:00
  The neighbour’s peach tree is encroaching and he’s a tricky customerEvery 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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• Fit in my 40s: ‘It’s more than yoga – it’s a complete system for loving yourself’

  09-09-2017 08:00
  It’s about relaxation, but has downward dogs and planks, child’s poses, things that look low-voltage, but are quite challengingI don’t really want to sell Adriene Mishler to you on the basis of how many YouTube subscribers she has. But OK, it’s 2.5m people, signing up to a free daily tuition video from the thirtysomething actor-cum-yoga teacher. I signed up for one of her courses, called Revolution: 31 Days Of Yoga.It’s more than yoga – it’s a complete s
  
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• My glass was barely clinked before my online date asked: ‘Guess my age?’

  09-09-2017 07:45
  Before they met, Keren Levy’s date told her he was 54. He turned out to be much older – and not even the fact that he claimed his ’biological age’ was 48 could save the eveningHis profile picture had been on the studied side; suited and staring into the middle distance. It was one of those photographs that could prove to be entirely accurate or fall into a dread category known to online daters in which the frozen self bears little or no resemblance to what walks thro
  
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• Is it wrong to resent going Dutch on a Tinder date?

  09-09-2017 07:45
  I always offer to split the bill on a first date, but this time I felt aggrieved when he then asked me back to his placeDigitised dating is muddying gendered norms – but it is not always a bad thing. Dating apps are helping to eradicate old rules and it is now far easier for women to orchestrate our own sexual destiny. We can avoid unwanted attention all with the flick of a finger or a painful “slow fade”. We initiate the contact and we are in control. So why did I still find m
  
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• I go away for a week, believing my adult kids can cope. Then all hell breaks loose

  09-09-2017 07:44
  The cats turn out to be murderers and must be imprisoned, a baby bird requires 24-hour care from the girls, and the youngest boy leaves homeOne of the useful things about living in a household of twentysomethings is that my offspring can now be left to run the house in my absence. I no longer fear that they will throw all-night parties, or provoke irate texts from neighbours. I am even fairly confident that the garden will be watered and the cats fed. My children are responsible adults. So
  
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• Don't be scared of having kids with big age gaps

  09-09-2017 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  When my oldest is 20, his little sister will be 11.While the baby toddles about the living room, I sometimes overhear my son and his friends doing the calculations.“When we’re ......
  
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• A letter to … my extra-clingy, overprotective mother

  09-09-2017 07:44
  The letter you always wanted to writeOccasionally, I let my mind torture me. I wonder what it must be like to have any level of autonomy, any sense of agency. You have never let me know a world that did not revolve around you, although you will deny this and say you willingly sacrificed your life so it would revolve around me, for that is what a real mother does, and that you are the only real, proper mother in the world.There are problems you refuse to see. I cannot leave the room for five minu
  
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• Ask the Expert -- Corkscrew

  09-09-2017 07:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Dear Mike:My grandfather recently gave me this old corkscrew. All he told me was that he got it from an elderly neighbour back in the 1950s.Can you tell ...
  
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• A rose by any other name might not make big bucks

  09-09-2017 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Wake up the kids and alert the neighbours, because I have come up with a genius money-making concept.I am exceedingly proud of this plan, although it is not so much ...
  
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• ‘Queens just look out of windows’: how children’s books are failing to show gender equality

  09-09-2017 07:30
  When my pre-school son started coming out with sexist guff, I was determined to find story books in which the girls and boys were treated as equals. It was surprisingly difficultMy pre-school son and I were snuggled up, reading, when it happened for the third time. I had mentioned that our new book was written by the same author as one of his old favourites. The author was a woman and my son frowned: “But that’s not usual, is it?” he asked. “I mean, for a woman
  
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• Why my Nigerian father never said goodbye

  09-09-2017 07:15
  After Camilla Balshaw‘s father disappeared, she spent years trying to forget him. But then a meeting with a cousin she never knew existed led to a series of very odd phone calls – and a new understanding of her heritageI had been warned by my cousin about the strange telephone habits of Nigerians so, as I prepared to speak to my father for the first time in 30 years, I thought I was ready. But I wasn’t. The conversation lasted four minutes. Not the
  
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• Why the Irish get death right

  09-09-2017 07:00
  We’ve lost our way with death, says Kevin Toolis – but the Irish wake, where the living, the bereaved and the dead remain bound together, shows us the way things could be doneIn the narrow room the old man lay close to death.Two days before, he had ceased to speak, lapsed into unconsciousness, and the final vigil had begun. The ravages of cancer had eaten into the flesh leaving only a skeletal husk. The heart beat on and the lungs drew breath but it was impossible to tell if he remai
  
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• Tim Dowling: there are 12 young people shrieking in our kitchen

  09-09-2017 07:00
  The youngest recounts the misunderstandings and underestimations that led to his party being double the approved sizeIt feels like the last night of summer: the air is still warm when my wife and I get home from a night out. The sky is clear, the street is quiet, and there are 12 young people shrieking in our kitchen.“Hello!” my wife says, striding into the room and extracting half a bottle of wine from the fridge. Some of the young people wave; others jump to attention, eyeing the n
  
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• Blind date: ‘I got on my soap box about Jeremy Corbyn – twice’

  09-09-2017 07:00
  Did lawyer Jahangir, 39, hit it off with public-sector director David, 38?Continue reading...
  
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• Axe-worthy

  09-09-2017 03:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  On a routine basis, Winnipeg luthier Allan Beardsell ships his precision-built, custom-made instruments to music aficionados all over the globe.If you’re lucky, he might even deliver one to you, in ...
  
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• On cricket homage, Britain's May challenges robotic jibe

  09-09-2017 01:34
  LONDON (Reuters) - Armed with a tupperware box full of home-made chocolate brownies, Prime Minister Theresa May made an appearance on Britain's most popular cricket program on BBC radio on Friday and...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,771

  09-09-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,298

  09-09-2017 01:00
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• Obama surprises students with visit to DC school

  09-09-2017 00:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Former President Barack Obama shocked students at a Washington school Friday by popping in to give them encouragement at the beginning of the new year."I do believe that ......
  
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