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• Modern elephant species genetically distinct, though ancient ancestors interbred

  26-02-2018 23:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - For many people, one elephant may seem much like another — majestic trunked and tusked creatures that roam the African savannah and forests or often serve as domesticated ......
  
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• Plans to cap domestic energy bills 'weak and confused', says watchdog

  26-02-2018 21:34
  Regulatory policy committee scornful about Tory policy to end ‘rip-offs’ by power companiesThe evidence underpinning ministers’ plans to cap the energy bills of millions of people has been slammed as “weak and confused” by the government’s own watchdog.As the government laid the legislation for the cap in parliament, the regulatory policy committee delivered a withering verdict on the case for a measure that Theresa May said was necessary to stop “rip-of
  
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• Vatican, Versace and Vogue team up for Met's spring exhibit

  26-02-2018 21:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ROME - The Vatican, Versace and Vogue are joining forces to show off the Catholic influences in fashion.The Vatican's culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue's Anna Wintour on Monday ...
  
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• Early warning sign? More states consider animal abuser lists

  26-02-2018 21:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. - Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Columbine High School shooters are among the infamous criminals who had a history of hurting animals before they ......
  
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• Northern Ireland's lake lands: Rain, history and the Mellons

  26-02-2018 19:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ENNISKILLEN, Ireland - We stood at the bar of the grand Lough Erne Resort, looking out at the driving rain."You see that lake out there," mused the barman wryly. "That ...
  
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• Australian town crowns most impressive hairstyle at inaugural 'Mulletfest'

  26-02-2018 19:47
  SYDNEY (Reuters) - A small Australian town that claims to have created the mullet, the "short on top and sides but long at the back" hairstyle favored by '70s rock stars, picked the best of more than...
  
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• Instant Pot asking consumers to stop using certain Gem 65 multicookers

  26-02-2018 19:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  OTTAWA - Instant Pot says customers who bought certain batches of one of its multicookers should stop using it immediately after some malfunction reports.The Ottawa-based company says on its Facebook ......
  
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• Mexico wine country: Foodie paradise and tastings in Baja

  26-02-2018 19:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ENSENADA, Mexico - Wine lovers, listen up: There's a little-known gem just south of the border called Valle de Guadalupe.It's a bit dustier and rougher around the edges than California's ...
  
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• Vatican releases rare papal vestments for Met fashion exhibition

  26-02-2018 19:19
  Theme of this year’s exhibition, supported by Anna Wintour, may prove most controversial yetSpanning 25 different galleries, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming costume institute exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, can expect to see the most ambitious exhibit the institution has ever taken on, revealed its curator Andrew Bolton on Monday at a press conference in Rome. Continue reading...
  
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• From periods to pregnancy – the sexual health crisis for Calais refugees

  26-02-2018 19:06
  Female volunteers for Gynaecology Without Borders are providing urgent care for women in need‘Dilva, 25, is seven months pregnant. Her blood group is Rh(D)- but her foetus’ is Rh(D)+. Her antibodies are attacking her foetus’ red blood cells. The baby has severe anaemia,” Edwige Prel is briefing her colleague Yohanna Depierre, who is driving an ambulance down the motorway to Grande-Synthe, a commune in the third-largest suburb of Dunkirk, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region o
  
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• Poland's Nieborow Palace: Lovely interiors, dramatic history

  26-02-2018 18:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NIEBOROW, Poland - Off the beaten track in central Poland lies a witness to history: Nieborow Palace, which has hosted world leaders, survived communism and wars, and even has a ...
  
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• Judy Blame obituary

  26-02-2018 18:49
  Fashion stylist, art director and jewellery designer inspired by the punk era of the 1970sPunk turned Judy Blame on when he was a teenage Chris Barnes living on a farm in 1970s Devon, with no night life, not much day life, and nobody around who appreciated punk’s homemade aesthetics. The movement’s ideal that you could, should, create your own everything, especially lifestyle, out of what might be foraged in an urban environment, sustained his life until his sudden death at 58, and k
  
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• Vatican, the Met team up to show Catholic effect on fashion

  26-02-2018 18:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ROME - The Vatican's culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue's Anna Wintour on Monday to show off a sampling of gorgeous Vatican liturgical vestments, jeweled miters and historic papal ...
  
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• Liz Weston: You're married, but your assets don't have to be

  26-02-2018 17:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The typical advice about what people should do with their tax refunds — save for retirement! pay off debt! — ignores how little wiggle room many families have with their ...
  
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• Kurdish artist unveils memorial to victims of Anfal killings

  26-02-2018 17:24
  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - A Kurdish artist has unveiled a new iron mural in the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, commemorating the victims of Saddam Hussein's "Anfal" campaign that targeted Iraqi...
  
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• Shredded Sweet Potatoes for Passover or Easter side dish

  26-02-2018 17:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  With spring just down the road, you've likely already figured out the main dish for the feast accompanying whichever of the two big seasonal holidays — Easter or Passover — ...
  
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• Bucket lists are ruining tourist hotspots – here’s where to go instead

  26-02-2018 16:46
  Forget the Taj Mahal and head for Orchha, as well as other lesser-known locations, to help prevent popular destinations getting overrunI first noticed the phenomenon in Seville cathedral. A tour group trailing behind an umbrella-wielding guide were put on the spot. Quite literally. The guide pointed to a particular flagstone and said: “This is where you take your picture.” And they all did. And the next group, too.That was before Instagram and the trend for bucket lists, so I don&rsq
  
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• Vatican, the Met assemble show on Catholic effect on fashion

  26-02-2018 16:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ROME - The Vatican is loaning some of its most beautiful liturgical vestments, jeweled miter caps and historic papal tiaras for an upcoming exhibit on Catholic influences in fashion at ......
  
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• Milan's wacky, wonderful fashion week closes on quiet note

  26-02-2018 15:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - After Gucci's heads and Dolce & Gabbana's drones, Milan Fashion Week wrapped up Monday on a tranquil note with shows by Japanese designers.The six days of previews for ...
  
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• What's the best way to save for a deposit for a flat?

  26-02-2018 14:28
  I’m hoping to save £25,000 and will use a help-to-buy Isa – where else should I put my money? Q I have a good credit rating, am disciplined with money and earn £27,000. I am hoping to save about £25,000 to put down as a deposit when I buy a flat costing between £80,000 and £90,000. I will be 48 or 49 when I am ready to buy and would like a mortgage term of 18 years so that it’s paid off just as I retire. (I intend to overpay so hopefully will be pa
  
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• Government urged to give those with debt problems a year's grace

  26-02-2018 13:56
  Ministers are considering a ‘breathing space’ of six weeks – but campaigners want to go much further The government has been called on to grant a “breathing space” of up to a year to people who are struggling under debt, so that they can get back on their feet and manage the money they owe.Debt campaigners want the Treasury to dramatically extend existing proposals for a six-week grace period in which debtors would be protected from enforcement proceedings and mount
  
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• Get Your Space Oscar-Ready With These 10 Old Hollywood Glamour Decor Ideas

  26-02-2018 13:00
  The Oscars are March 8. Why not get Oscar-ready by adding a little Hollywood-chic to your home? Old Hollywood glamour decor is fresher than you’d think — many of its elements like velvets, greys, mirrors and glass are perfectly modern and hot for 2018.Here are some ways you can add a little old Hollywood glamour decor to your home, in time for the Oscars.1. It’s all about silver, platinum and light metallic sheensLayer matte and high-gloss shades of silver or grey in your home
  
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• Anna Jones’s recipes with smoked paprika | The modern cook

  26-02-2018 13:00
  Put smoked chilli in romesco sauce or spiced butter, and add depth and aromatic flavour to roast or barbecued vegetablesA couple of years ago, I spent a few cloudy days in Extremadura, Spain. We visited a chilli farm and saw the kilns in which the peppers were smoked, their intoxicating sweet aroma filling the air. Once cooled and ground, these bronzed chillies become smoked paprika, or pimentón. This is a spice I reach for on an almost daily basis to add smoke, sweetness and a piquant hu
  
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• Crossword blog: a cryptic Twitter list

  26-02-2018 11:16
  Who else belongs on our list of microbloggers who are apt to discuss cryptic crosswords?Thanks for your suggested replacement clues for the Campaign for Real Ale’s Derby Drinker magazine. If you missed this rare appearance of crosswords in the headlines, there was a brief storm over 7d and 18d in the magazine’s current puzzle:@DerbyCAMRA , very disappointed you bring shame to @CAMRA_Official name, please stop this sort of thing now, it’s 2018 pic.twitter.com/nHOdqEGu4q Continue
  
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• Nigel Slater’s small dishes to mix and match

  26-02-2018 09:00
  Grilled aubergines with feta, winter salad and sausages, sweet potato loaf – it’s time to blur the lines between mains and sidesI just want something good to eat. I honestly don’t mind if its two or three small dishes from which to pick and choose or a single plate of food. The blurred lines of how we eat are far more appealing to me than the strict “here is your main course and this is its accompaniment” way of sustaining ourselves. Relaxed food produces more relax
  
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• I used to be sexually adventurous – but my marriage ended all that

  26-02-2018 09:00
  After experimenting with bisexuality, fetish clubs and outdoor sex, I am with someone who is sexually conservative. What do I do?I didn’t marry until I was 40 and I was extremely sexually adventurous before that. I am bisexual, have frequented fetish clubs, engaged in public sex and myriad other escapades. Unfortunately, my wife is extremely conservative when it comes to sex. At first, I didn’t believe this would be an issue, but three years into the marriage and
  
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• Why do gyms make things so difficult for blind people?

  26-02-2018 08:00
  When smartphones, TVs and even washing machines are set up for visually impaired people to use, why isn’t exercise equipment?If, like me, you want to keep fit and healthy, your first port of call is usually your local gym or health club. However, if, like me, you are also blind, keeping active can be a minefield of inaccessible technology, awkward conversations and frustrating barriers. And mine is hardly a rare issue: more than two million people in Britain are living with sight loss, and
  
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• Post-Games blues nothing to do with lack of gold

  26-02-2018 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I have an Olympic-sized hole in my heart.I am not trying to suggest I am a little bummed out by the fact that Canada did not win gold in women’s ......
  
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• A taste of Greece: the new culinary scene on Tinos island

  26-02-2018 07:30
  From beekeepers to winemakers, locals and newcomers are creating a foodie paradise on Tinos in the Cyclades – and turning old buildings into stylish places to stay, tooIt’s pretty obvious why the 20th-century Greek philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis called Tinos the “handmade island”. In the 50-odd villages of this 75 square-mile isle in the northern Cyclades, marble sculptors have transformed every lintel, doorway, and fountain into a work of art. Even the For Sale signs
  
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• Doctors often called on to provide medical emergency aid on flights

  26-02-2018 06:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - It's a call for help that most physicians worry about when taking a flight: "Is there a doctor on board?"What it heralds is an urgent medical issue, usually ......
  
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• At the Olympics, fans became walking corporate billboards

  26-02-2018 04:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - He didn't get the hashtag quite right on the first try, so they withheld the free stuffed bear he waited in line a half-hour to ......
  
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• California hiker found after 6 days missing in Yosemite park

  26-02-2018 00:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  YOSEMITE, Calif. - A well-prepared California hiker missing for six days in the icy backcountry of Yosemite National Park was found in good health after an extensive search, officials said.A ......
  
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