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• Fonda, Mirren make star turns as fashion models for L'Oreal

  01-10-2017 20:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Jane Fonda and Helen Mirren were the toast of Paris as the two septuagenarian actresses modelled for L'Oreal. The cosmetics giant transformed the Champs-Elysees avenue into a dazzling ...
  
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• Cutting out cows' milk? Here's how to keep up your iodine intake

  01-10-2017 17:00
  The popularity of alternatives such as almond milk over cow’s correlates with increasingly low levels of the mineral in women – which can have serious health repercussions
  Cow’s milk seems deeply unfashionable at the moment with sales of soya, almond and other milk substitutes growing year on year. Dairy producers are hitting back with the introduction of a fizzy fruit and milk drink (no, me neither). But a recent study by the University of Surrey found that the majority of mil
  
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• Think he cheated? Just listen to him talk, study suggests

  01-10-2017 16:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Apparently all we needed to determine that Jay-Z had indeed cheated on Beyoncé was a sample of the rapper counting from one to 10.According to a recent study published in ......
  
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• Top actresses marvel at Givenchy's new chapter in Paris

  01-10-2017 16:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Some of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses flew into Paris for a glimpse of the new chapter of the storied fashion house of Givenchy.The debut show by designer Clare ...
  
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• Germany celebrates 1st same-sex weddings after law change

  01-10-2017 12:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BERLIN - A couple from Berlin has become the first in Germany to celebrate a same-sex wedding, after a new law called "marriage for all" came into force Sunday.Karl Kreile, ......
  
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• Hotpot hotspot: the chilli-infused dish that fires up Chongqing, China

  01-10-2017 12:00
  There are more than 50,000 hotpot restaurants in the megacity doling out the fiery, tongue-numbing broth, though luckily they all sell cold beer too“Hotpot is an institution. It’s about the atmosphere, not just the food,” says Jordan Porter of Chengdu Food Tours.The spiritual home of Sichuan mala (numblingly spicy) hotpot is Chongqing in south-west China – with 37 million people in its urban area it one of the world’s largest cities. The dish migrated south from Mon
  
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• Lauren Stocks: ‘My family say I’ll be PM one day, and I’m just: No!’

  01-10-2017 11:00
  The Manchester schoolgirl on becoming the talk of the Labour party conference after giving an impassioned speech about education that went viralLauren Stocks, a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Greater Manchester, went viral last week with a passionate speech to the Labour party conference, claiming new GCSE exams are putting teenagers under intolerable stress. She won a standing ovation from delegates as she warned of classrooms full of “spaced-out, stressed-out, depressed kids in a battlefiel
  
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• The UK's 50 best Sunday lunches

  01-10-2017 10:00
  From pubs in the Highlands to London’s Highbury, a zero-waste eatery in Brighton and an art haunt in Somerset, here are our 50 picks for a sumptuous Sunday ...Whether yours is a roast dinner, sharing plates laden with seasonal salads, or a mound of just-caught seafood, Sunday lunch is the meal that ends one week and begins another, a stalwart of Britain’s great edible institutions and a delicious moment for pause. Here are this year’s 50 best picks arranged by region... Continu
  
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• Nigel Slater’s autumn vegetable soup and ricotta with amaretti recipes

  01-10-2017 10:00
  Fresh is not always best. A vegetable soup and a chocolatey, nutty ricotta dessert are overnight sensations that taste even better the next day
  I made the first big soup of the season this week, a minestrone of sorts, with the sweetness of golden squash, made substantial enough for a main course with little beads of orzo. A soup of diced vegetables is grounding and frugal, and the best way of using up a rag-bag of odd vegetables I know. Its freshness, when the green beans still have a spring in
  
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• Costa Rica hotel hits wrong note as it charges us for pre-paid rooms

  01-10-2017 08:00
  The travel agent took our choir group’s money for the booking but did not pay the hotelWe have just returned from an enjoyable choir tour to Costa Rica. When our party of 54 arrived at the hotel in San José that had been booked by our Costa Rican travel agent, we were asked to give credit card details as normal. When we checked out five days later we each settled our bar expenses etc. But a week later we found our credit card accounts had been debited by the hotel for the equivalent
  
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• we should all support women’s football | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

  01-10-2017 07:00
  Women’s football is now the country’s fourth-largest participation sport. So why is it still so underfunded and ignored?When I started playing football as an adult, at the beginning of university age 17, I was having panic attacks. It would be perhaps midway through the game, when I was out of breath after a fast sprint and, usually, when I had either messed up a crucial play, or felt so tired that I was worried that I would mess up the next move.Each time, my teammates would rally a
  
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• The three best trees for tiny spaces

  01-10-2017 07:00
  A garden without a tree isn’t a garden, but it’s vital to choose the right plantPick the wrong tree and in a few years it will swallow up every inch of precious spaceFor those of us with only postage stamp-size gardens to play with, perhaps the very hardest decision to get right is trees. Pick the wrong one and in a few short years it will swallow up every inch of precious space, block out light and may even wreak havoc with your foundations. But if you don’t plant one at all &
  
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• Tesla Model X review: ‘The volume goes up to 11’ | Martin love

  01-10-2017 07:00
  Tesla’s new take on the electric SUV is powerfully impressive. But is the Model X a real world contender or just an expensive gimmickfest?Price: from £70,500 for the 75D
  Top speed: 155mph
  0-62mph: 3.2 seconds
  Range: 351 miles
  Tailpipe emissions: 0Through his massively profitable Tesla corporation, Elon Musk is planning to transform the world not just of motoring but also of power generation (the Gigafactory), space travel (SpaceX), tunnelling (the Boring Company) and even, possibly,
  
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• Shop and then pop: the best places to buy wine in Britain

  01-10-2017 07:00
  Supermarkets, traditional merchants and indies that edge out the oppositionLenza di Munti Etna Rosso, Sicily, Italy 2013 (£9.95, Booths)
  Which are the best places to buy wine in Britain? The UK’s two big wine competitions – the International Wine Challenge and the Decanter World Wine Awards – both published their annual reply to that question recently. The differences in winners across numerous categories suggested a healthy competition. Actually, that isn’t really
  
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• Ox Club: ‘They know what they’re doing’ – restaurant review

  01-10-2017 07:00
  This Leeds restaurant claims to be all about fire and smoke, but its kitchen is far more sophisticated than that
  Ox Club, 19a The Headrow, Leeds LS1 6PU (07470 359961). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £80Stacked up in front of the white tiled bar at Ox Club in Leeds are brown paper sacks of “British Barbecue Charcoal” alongside piles of kindling, both provided by the Leeds Coppice Workers. It’s a co-operative that manages woodland and sells the resulting kindl
  
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• Musical cookery at the Sportsman restaurant in Kent

  01-10-2017 07:00
  Stephen Harris, chef at the much loved restaurant, explains how he mixes melodies and gastronomyI have heard people say they see colours when they cook, and that this is how they make sense of food. I don’t know how that works, but I can understand, as I see food and music as analogous.I was beginning to like this idea of a jumble sale Michelin-starred restaurant Continue reading...
  
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• How to create life’s big moments | Chip and Dan Heath

  01-10-2017 07:00
  Chip and Dan Heath say don’t wait for life’s defining events to come along – make them happen now. Here’s howWe all have defining moments in our lives – meaningful experiences that stand out in our memory. Many of them owe a great deal to chance: a lucky encounter with someone who becomes the love of your life. A new teacher who spots a talent you didn’t know you had. A sudden loss that upends the certainties of your life. A realisation that you don’t wa
  
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• I’ve fallen for a married woman in my netball team | Mariella Frostrup

  01-10-2017 06:59
  Mariella Frostrup tells a woman having an affair with a married woman that she should not get entangled any deeperThe dilemma I have started a physical relationship with a woman I met playing netball a few years ago. I was attracted to her immediately, but she was aloof, though eventually we became friends. At a few socials she tried to kiss me, but I politely refused knowing she was married.Then we started working in the same company and one evening, drunker than usual, I made a move and we&rsq
  
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