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• Transparent patch designed to detect pathogens like E. coli in packaged foods

  06-04-2018 23:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Researchers at McMaster University have developed a transparent test patch for food packaging that detects the presence of potentially deadly bacteria like E. coli, with the aim of ......
  
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• Amsale Aberra bridal show to include tribute to designer

  06-04-2018 23:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Bridal Fashion Week this time around will include a tribute to couture designer Amsale Aberra, who died of cancer just days before her scheduled show.She died Sunday ...
  
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• 9 West files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

  06-04-2018 22:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Nine West Holdings Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection, the latest retailer to do so as it attempts to restructure its debt and refocus on its more ...
  
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• Spain, Portugal bust gang smuggling glass eels to Asia

  06-04-2018 20:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MADRID - Spanish and Portuguese authorities announced Friday that they have taken down a criminal network that has been making large profits by smuggling glass eels to Asia.Authorities across the ......
  
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• On the ball: what to wear to watch the World Cup – in pictures

  06-04-2018 20:00
  Regardless of whether you plan to watch the World Cup this summer, it’s worth dressing for the event. Cheer on your team in style in these outfits ideal for the football Continue reading...
  
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• Vietnam warns against 'inappropriate' statues after nude sculpture cover-up

  06-04-2018 17:44
  HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's culture ministry has issued a directive against "inappropriate" statues after images of godlike sculptures with animal heads and human genitalia stoked controversy.
  
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• A dream comes true-Sarajevo cable car runs again after 26 years

  06-04-2018 17:44
  SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Edmond Offermann's dream turned to reality after 20 years on Friday when the landmark Sarajevo cable car, destroyed early in Bosnia's 1990s war, resumed services up Mount...
  
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• Potholes as flower pots? Brussels protester brightens up damaged roads

  06-04-2018 17:43
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Brussels man has begun planting flowers in potholes across the Belgian capital to highlight what he says is the sorry state of many of the city's roads.
  
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• Let’s move to Tenterden, Kent: ‘Home of the booming British wine industry'

  06-04-2018 17:29
  It’s a monied, country casuals kind of placeWhat’s going for it? Centuries ago, Tenterden was a port, the estuarine tentacles of the sea creeping up the squelchy Rother valley with the tides from Rye to Small Hythe. These days the town is beached in the gentle hills and high hedges of Kent’s High Weald – though you never know, climate change may in time resurrect its long-dead shipbuilding industry. For now, at least, there is not a whiff of ozone in the spring air. Inste
  
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• Boss buzzing you after hours? NYC might let you say buzz off

  06-04-2018 16:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Technology that once promised freedom from the confines of an office has, for many workers, become a ball and chain, blurring the lines between work hours and, ......
  
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• Romania measles epidemic: baby dies, death toll reaches 46

  06-04-2018 16:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian health authorities say a nine-month old baby has died of measles, the 46th fatality from an epidemic that has struck the country over the past year.The ...
  
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• Woman sues Idaho fertility doctor for using his own sperm

  06-04-2018 16:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A Washington state woman is suing an Idaho fertility doctor after discovering through an online ancestry website that the man had secretly fathered her.Kelli Rowlette and the parents who raised ...
  
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• Tribe: Ruling could reform US agency for Native education

  06-04-2018 16:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Stephen C. has been taught only math and English at a U.S.-run elementary school for Native American children deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon. Teachers ...
  
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• Flawless white diamonds, among largest ever offered, to go on sale

  06-04-2018 16:08
  LONDON (Reuters) - Two flawless white diamonds each weighing in at more than 50 carats are expected to fetch more than $15 million when they are auctioned in May, auctioneers Sotheby's Diamonds said...
  
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• New rave: what to wear to a festival – in pictures

  06-04-2018 16:00
  With Coachella round the corner, we are entering festival season. Get ready with these essentials to help you party all day and night Continue reading...
  
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• Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman

  06-04-2018 16:00
  There’s a trick to staying calm but well-informed: take your time catching up with the newsIt’s a rare week, these days, that you don’t encounter some new, extreme plan for staying sane in a world of insanity-inducing headlines. People used to recommend one device-free day a week, or the occasional “digital detox” retreat. But in recent months we’ve heard from the journalist who switched to a print-only news diet; the writer who’s lived te
  
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• Cocktail of the week: the Spread Eagle’s vegan tequila sour

  06-04-2018 16:00
  Ditch the egg white for chickpea water and you have a Mexican classic with a vegan twistThis is our signature cocktail, a Mexican classic with a vegan twist, in that we bind it with aquafaba – the liquid from tinned chickpeas – rather than the traditional egg white. Use the drained chickpeas to make hummus.Serves 1Continue reading...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipe for za’atar flatbreads with a fried egg

  06-04-2018 15:00
  Homemade bread is simpler than you think, and this stovetop version topped with herbs, spice and griddled broccoli makes for an easy and delicious dinnerThere are few things as good as bread fresh out of the oven or off the grill. Yet in our relentless busyness, we can convince ourselves that homemade bread will take too much time. My four‑year‑old came running home yesterday having made some at school. They mixed the dough, wound it around sticks and cooked it over a bonfire. These
  
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• Ikoyi, London SW1: ‘Challenging, whether you're from from Nigeria or Nantwich’ – restaurant review

  06-04-2018 14:00
  With West African-inspired flavours and British ingredients under a roof of minimalist fine dining, Ikoyi may not be authentic, but it’s puzzlingly innovativeRestaurant criticism, a little like black pudding, does not benefit from close scrutiny as to its beginnings. How I choose which restaurants to sprinkle my own brand of fairy dust on is the question I’m asked most, but the answer rarely pleases. It’s complex, fickle, flighty.Ikoyi, for example, named after an affluent dist
  
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• What I wore this week: a luxe tracksuit | Priya Elan

  06-04-2018 13:59
  Stepping out of the house in a tracksuit feels absentminded and reckless, like forgetting your keysStanding here, dressed in my luxe tracksuit, I am feeling like the walking embodiment of that expectation-versus-reality meme. In my mind I am channelling Tony Soprano but I can’t shake the idea that, when faced with the cruel light of a Wednesday lunchtime in April, I actually look like a scruffy extra from EastEnders who appears for occasional scenes around the fruit and veg stall. And that
  
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• Farnese blue diamond goes on sale after 300 years of royal history

  06-04-2018 13:57
  LONDON (Reuters) - The historically important Farnese Blue diamond, which was passed down through European royal families for some 300 years, is to go on sale for the first time next month,...
  
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• How to eat: lasagne

  06-04-2018 13:36
  This month, How to Eat has a lasagne in the oven. But will you be eating it with salad, garlic bread, chips – or even boiled potatoes?It originated in ancient Rome (as a nauseating miscellany of thrush, tripe and raisin wine), and the al forno/alla bolognese form of the dish most common in northern Europe was perfected in Emilia-Romagna. But nonetheless, in the UK, we have a deep love for lasagne. We have made this month’s How to Eat subject our own.An early version of “loseyns
  
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• I feel unlovable – men always choose my close friends over me

  06-04-2018 13:00
  This has happened with every man I’ve liked in the past decade. It’s disheartening and I’m starting to resent my friendsI was secretly in love with a friend for more than a year. When I confessed my feelings, he said he felt the same way but that it was bad timing – he had recently got out of a relationship. However, a month later he said he couldn’t see us progressing romantically. I recently found out that, around that time, he began seeing one of my best friends.
  
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• Goodbye, Ranch! America Has a New Favorite Home Style

  06-04-2018 13:00
  The mid-century modern, single-story ranch home is no longer America’s favorite. According to a recent survey by real estate website Trulia, Millennials, who are buying their first homes, have tipped the scale in favor of the new winner: the craftsman bungalow. The craftsman came in first, at 43 percent, with the ranch home following at 41 percent and the colonial-style home at 36 percent.As shown above, the ranch-style house is often spread out across one story. Mostly construct
  
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• Southeast Asia's idyllic islands buckle under tourism strain

  06-04-2018 11:22
  SINGAPORE/BANGKOK (Reuters) - The six-month closure of the Philippine tourism island of Boracay for a revamp after the country's president branded it a "cesspool" reflects the growing pressures on...
  
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• My life in sex: ‘After three decades of marriage, my husband announced he was gay’

  06-04-2018 11:00
  The wife whose husband came outMy husband was always very tactile and loving but rarely wanted to have sex with me, even in the early stages of our relationship. He eventually stopped altogether after about four years. He was vague about the reasons and never brought up the subject himself. I begged him to have therapy, and he always agreed, but he never did.I read a lot about sexless marriages but nothing seemed to apply. I felt undesired and undesirable. It was a use it or lose it si
  
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• Experience: I was shot five times

  06-04-2018 11:00
  A white Chevy pickup truck came screeching in. In my sideview mirror I saw the driver jump out. He was agitated and hiding somethingEverything was grey. I could hear my friend Priscilla screaming and voices all around me, but I couldn’t see anything. The paramedics lifted the gurney – “One, two, three” – and that’s when I came to.I wasn’t supposed to be there. I live in Fayetteville in Georgia, and I was going to Barnesville, 15 miles away, for my first
  
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• Welcome to the new tax year - here's the main changes

  06-04-2018 08:00
  There are several major adjustments to taxpayer liabilities for the new fiscal year 2018/19. Here’s a brief summary
  •All change for your bank balance and pay packetThe new tax year begins on Friday with a bigger than usual set of changes to income taxes, personal allowances, pensions, buy-to-let taxation and dividend taxation. Here’s what to expect. Personal allowance
  The amount you can earn without paying income tax rises from £11,500 to £11,850, which works out as
  
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• BA flies in the face of the facts over delay compensation

  06-04-2018 08:00
  We lost two days of our trip but it won’t accept responsibilityMy daughter and I bought Japanese Airlines (JAL) tickets to fly to Tokyo last October. JAL collaborates with BA and Finnair, so the first leg from London Heathrow to Helsinki was operated by BA and the second, Helsinki to Tokyo, with Finnair.Continue reading...
  
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• Take a tasty trip down he produce aisle

  06-04-2018 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I create recipes for a living, so I have a vested interest in making sure people know how to select the best ingredients. The quality of the fruits and vegetables ......
  
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• 10 of the best European music festivals you’ve never heard of

  06-04-2018 07:30
  Festivals don’t have to be huge and commercial. We look beyond the best-known events to pick out 10 alternative parties in incredible locations from £35 for a weekendVibe Non-stop party
  Headliners Fort Romeau, Horse Meat Disco, Optimo
  A slew of chic, boutique, dance music-orientated festivals have joined the UK circuit over the past few years. Houghton, Farr, Gottwood and Field Maneuvers are among those that have made an impression but one that’s had far less attention –
  
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• The fashion for light stockings - archive, 6 April 1923

  06-04-2018 06:30
  6 April 1923 The light stocking is very charming fashion, especially in France, where feet are not on a large scaleExcept for mourning, the black stocking seems almost to have disappeared in Paris. Greys and onion colour, and all the snuff and mole shades can be seen everywhere. The white stocking is also in evidence. But the black silk and black thread stocking-makers are sending up bitter complaints and nobody listens to them. The light stocking is indeed very charming fashion, especially in F
  
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• 'Once we’re dead, we’re dead': Dolce and Gabbana say label will die with them

  06-04-2018 02:37
  Founders say they don’t want ‘a Japanese designer to start designing Dolce & Gabbana’ and reveal they’ve refused offers for the brandItalian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana say the Dolce & Gabbana label will die with them.
  “Once we’re dead, we’re dead. I don’t want a Japanese designer to start designing Dolce & Gabbana,” Gabbana, 55, said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Continue rea
  
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• Sudoku 4027 hard

  06-04-2018 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,949

  06-04-2018 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,476

  06-04-2018 01:00
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