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• British grocer Sainsbury's in merger talks with Walmart unit

  28-04-2018 17:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Sainsbury's, the U.K.'s second-biggest grocery chain, said Saturday it is in advanced discussions about a merger with Walmart Inc.'s British unit, Asda, as retailers adjust to swiftly changing ......
  
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• Gary Numan: ‘Eye contact is something I find incredibly difficult’ | This much I know

  28-04-2018 14:59
  The singer and musician, 60, on having Asperger’s, voting for Thatcher and threatening to stab someone in MexicoI was a very difficult kid. I’d get hyper, argue and make trouble. My school got fed up so I was kicked out. I went to another school and got thrown out, too. I ended up going to a technical college, just to keep my mum and dad happy. Then the college asked me to leave.A child psychologist diagnosed me with Asperger’s, I must have been about 14. I don’t remember
  
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• Good Samaritan was right in time

  28-04-2018 14:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  On the morning of April 10, I suffered a fall on the road at the corner of Hespeler Avenue and Henderson Highway. I was quite shaken up, with numerous injuries ......
  
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• Can I cook like ... Vladimir Putin?

  28-04-2018 12:00
  Russia’s president is fond of pies, as am I. But dissenters of my pastry capabilities will not be toleratedVladimir Putin’s appetite stretches to a number of things, not least a good chunk of the Ukraine, but one of his preferred meals is pie. His mother used to make pies of various kinds, which is one reason why he hankers after them now.Most pie recipes are fairly easy – you make a big bowl and a lid out of pastry, make some kind of stew, pour said stew into your big bowl, pu
  
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• On Calabria's coast a fairytale village awakes from its slumber

  28-04-2018 11:00
  The abandoned, historic centre of Belmonte Calabro has been converted into a magical place to stay, creating a model of sustainable tourism in the process
  More on Italy’s albergo diffuso movement
  The hills were on fire. It was August and the view from our car window of smoke rising from forest fires was as dramatic as the road taking us south. The “motorway of the sun”, more prosaically known as the A2, negotiates the mountains of Calabria through a series of tunnels and high b
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan white miso and tofu ramen

  28-04-2018 10:30
  A silky bowl of noodles made rich with soy milk and topped with crunchy vegetablesWhen I think about food courts in shopping centres, my mind jumps to soggy chips, sad burgers and sticky tables. But tucked away in an unassuming corner of Westfield Stratford is a joyful little Japanese canteen called Shoryu, where I recently had my mind blown by a ramen dish called white natural. Unlike the pork-dominated ramen dishes we’re used to, this version is made with soy milk and white miso, making
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s tray bake recipes

  28-04-2018 10:00
  Let the oven do the hard work, then sit down to a butternut squash bake, a cheesy gratin or some saucy roast vegI’ve been making lots of tray bakes recently. I am not sure I like the term – 1970s convenience food springs to mind – but I love what it stands for: the idea that, after doing the prep, you can sit down with a cuppa or a glass of wine and relax for an hour or two while your meal more or less cooks itself. And, unlike a stew, which offers the cook a similar break, a b
  
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• The mud mosque of Djenné is in which country? The Weekend quiz

  28-04-2018 08:00
  From Tubeway Army to southern elephants, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Whose 1843 Note G is claimed to be the first computer program?
  2 The southern elephant is the largest species of what mammal?
  3 Which gland is located in the middle of the brain?
  4 Whose third husband was Henry VIII?
  5 The mud-rendered mosque of Djenné is in which country?
  6 One in five Koreans have what family name?
  7 What has an ‘e’ in Cambridge, but not in Oxford?
  8 Which diminutive characte
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘ ‘In this kind of ballet, you grip the barre and hang on for dear life’ | Zoe Williams

  28-04-2018 08:00
  Pliés have become squats that last six minutes; arabesques have mutated into glute tortureI was prepared to give the world of ballet one more shot, more for its sake than mine. This pointy-toe stuff will do nothing for my core strength, I thought, but I have been unfair about its core, a discipline before mindfulness, what we once called concentration. Plus, Define is a ballet class with a difference: it promises you’ll add two inches to yourself, though I didn’t think that th
  
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• 12 of the best beach towns in southern Europe

  28-04-2018 08:00
  Quiet islands, Venetian harbours, sumptuous seafood and golden sands … these seaside towns in France, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece and Portugal are ingrained with the spirit of summer Continue reading...
  
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• No going back to T-shirts, hoodies for Zuckerberg

  28-04-2018 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Did anyone really think Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg would come to Capitol Hill earlier this month to testify before Congress wearing a T-shirt or a hoodie? Of course he’d wear ......
  
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• Kauai woos travellers as island recovers from floods

  28-04-2018 02:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HONOLULU - Residents and businesses are still cleaning up from flooding that deluged parts of Kauai, but community leaders are urging tourists to keep coming so residents don't suffer an ......
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,495

  28-04-2018 01:00
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• Fashion meets Catholicism: offensive or brilliant PR?

  28-04-2018 00:07
  Met’s exhibition includes about 50 papal robes and items by top designersNext month sees the opening of the Met’s highly anticipated exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. The exhibition is the Met’s largest show to date but also, given the theme, could prove controversial.
  Famously preceded by a celebrity-studded, red carpet gala of the same theme and hosted by US Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, it is a highlight of New York’s social calendar. But
  
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