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• Montreal designer creates 'elegant' look for Jessica Mulroney at royal wedding

  19-05-2018 23:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MONTREAL - A Montreal designer says seeing her custom dress on tastemaker Jessica Mulroney at the royal wedding was a wonderful experience, and it's giving her brand an international boost.Antoinette ......
  
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• Canadians celebrate mix of pageantry, modern twists in royal wedding

  19-05-2018 22:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  As the freshly minted Duke and Duchess of Sussex embark on married life together, many Canadians said the fledgling royal union also marks a new chapter for the monarchy.With its ...
  
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• In a union of tradition and modernity, U.S actress Meghan marries Prince Harry

  19-05-2018 21:49
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Prince Harry and his actress bride Meghan Markle married on Saturday in a dazzling ceremony that blended ancient English ritual with African American culture, infusing...
  
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• Markle's bridal gown work of Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller

  19-05-2018 21:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy is the master British designer behind the sleek silk boat-necked gown and long billowing veil worn by Meghan Markle as she walked down ...
  
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• Black royal watchers in Toronto happy to see diversity at wedding celebrations

  19-05-2018 21:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - People in Toronto gathered in theatres, hotels and pubs to watch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry in a ceremony at St. George's Chapel on Saturday, where the ......
  
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• The Latest: What a ride! Couple drives off in classic Jaguar

  19-05-2018 20:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, England - The Latest on the royal wedding (all times local):7:10 p.m.Newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have made a dramatic departure for their evening reception, making the short ...
  
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• Americans fete royal wedding in pubs, hotels and homes

  19-05-2018 20:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - From pubgoers in pyjamas to merrymakers in finery at a posh hotel, Americans cheered and teared up Saturday as they watched Meghan Markle marry Prince Harry in ...
  
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• Reuters photographers pick their best royal wedding picture

  19-05-2018 19:58
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Patience, meticulous preparation and a big dose of luck were among the elements that Reuters photographers were counting on when they took up their positions to cover the...
  
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• New Starbucks policy: No purchase needed to sit in its cafes

  19-05-2018 19:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Starbucks is announcing a new policy that allows anyone to sit in its cafes or use its restrooms, even if they don't buy anything.The new policy comes ...
  
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• In a union of tradition and modernity, U.S. actress Meghan marries Prince Harry

  19-05-2018 18:48
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Prince Harry and his actress bride Meghan Markle married on Saturday in a dazzling ceremony that blended ancient English ritual with African American culture, infusing...
  
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• Meghan Markle picks simple, sleek dress by Givenchy designer for wedding

  19-05-2018 18:20
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Meghan Markle picked a sleek sculpted dress by the British designer of couture house Givenchy for her marriage to Prince Harry on Saturday, worn with a five-meter long...
  
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• U.S. bishop wows royal wedding with impassioned sermon on love

  19-05-2018 18:18
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - African-American bishop Michael Curry electrified the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with a barnstorming sermon on the power of love that won smiles in the...
  
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• The Latest: Sir Elton John serenades royal newlyweds

  19-05-2018 18:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, England - The Latest on the royal wedding (all times local):4:25 p.m.Elton John has performed for guests at newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding reception.The singer was among ...
  
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• Teenage cellist thrust to global fame at royal wedding

  19-05-2018 18:14
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Young British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was thrust into the global limelight on Saturday, heard by millions as he played at the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
  
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• African-Americans hail UK royal wedding's nod to black history, culture

  19-05-2018 18:10
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hometown and racial pride fired up royal wedding watchers across the United States on Saturday, from pre-dawn partiers wearing pajamas and fancy hats in Los Angeles to Twitter...
  
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• Fiery US bishop brings American flair to royal wedding

  19-05-2018 17:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, England - Nothing captured the trans-Atlantic nature of Saturday's royal wedding as much as the guest preacher whose sermon brought American fire and flair to a very English church ......
  
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• Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller designs Markle's sleek dress

  19-05-2018 17:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy is the master British designer behind the sleek silk boat-necked gown and long billowing veil worn by Meghan Markle as she walked down ...
  
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• Celebrity guests show their royal wedding fashion best at Windsor

  19-05-2018 17:32
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Windsor Castle became an eclectic catwalk of colorful frocks and shapely hats on Saturday as celebrity guests offered up an array of royal wedding outfit styles, eagerly...
  
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• 'A long, cool glass of water': the perfect wedding dress for a Californian royal | Jess Cartner-Morley

  19-05-2018 17:16
  Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy marries crisp lines with demure formality in Meghan Markle gown
  Full coverage of the big day
  The dress of the year turned out to be beautifully simple. Clare Waight Keller, who in 2017 became the first female artistic designer to lead the historic house of Givenchy, created a haute couture dress of clean lines and timeless elegance, with minimal adornment on snowy silk. Related: Royal wedding live: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle parade Windsor in horse-drawn carri
  
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• Britons celebrate royal wedding with picnics and street parties

  19-05-2018 17:15
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Thousands of people across Britain gathered at street parties and picnics in the sunshine to celebrate the royal wedding on Saturday, and festivities were expected to...
  
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• Worlds away from Windsor, people celebrate Harry and Meghan's big day

  19-05-2018 17:10
  PORT STANLEY, Falkland Islands (Reuters) - From the windswept Falkland Islands, battered by the South Atlantic and home to colonies of penguins, to the heat of Kenya, India and Australia, people...
  
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• Mulroney twins capture hearts during page boys duties at royal wedding

  19-05-2018 17:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The joyful expressions of seven-year-old Canadian twins Brian and John Mulroney captured Internet hearts on Saturday as the boys took a star turn as page boys at the royal wedding.A ...
  
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• For public guests inside castle, royal wedding 'like a dream'

  19-05-2018 17:01
  WINDSOR (Reuters) - They may not have been in the chapel or the reception, but the 2,640 locals, community representatives and members of the public invited to witness Saturday's royal wedding inside...
  
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• Meghan Markle’s glossy friends raise the wedding fashion game

  19-05-2018 16:22
  A diverse crowd in daring couture replace the usual pale faces in polite florals‘A long, cool glass of water’: the perfect dress for a Californian royal
  Inside St George’s Chapel for the royal wedding, the aesthetic was: Marvel Studios takes the storyline of a traditional British wedding and makes a 21st century blockbuster. There was an all-star cast – George Clooney as the hero, Tom Hardy as the villain – and no expense spared on the wardrobe. Amal Clooney looked
  
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• A royal reception feast for 600: langoustines, quail eggs and rhubarb tartlets

  19-05-2018 15:45
  WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Guests of Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan were set to tuck into dishes including Scottish langoustines, grilled asparagus and rhubarb crumble tartlets at a lunchtime...
  
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• The Latest: Canapés, cake and speeches served at reception

  19-05-2018 15:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, England - The Latest on the royal wedding (all times local):2:15 p.m.Guests are welcoming royal newlyweds Harry and Meghan at a reception featuring seasonal British produce and a nontraditional ...
  
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• Canadian families among throngs of royal fans camping out for glimpse of newlyweds

  19-05-2018 14:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, United Kingdom - A family of Canadian royal fans was among the many people who were camping out around Windsor Castle in order to catch a glimpse of Prince ...
  
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• It's all about the well-plumed hats for royal wedding guests

  19-05-2018 14:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Like every good royal wedding, it was all about the hats, the dresses and the posh tails, with some fashion standouts among the guests hustled inside the church at Windsor ......
  
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• Clare Waight Keller designs Markle's sleek wedding dress

  19-05-2018 14:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Clare Waight Keller is the master British designer behind the silk boat-necked gown and long billowing veil worn by Meghan Markle as she walked down the flower-bedecked nave ...
  
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• The Latest: Nursery manager happy to be at royal wedding

  19-05-2018 12:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, England - The Latest on the royal wedding (all times local):11:15 a.m.Patsy Small, a 53-year-old nursery manager who was invited to the Windsor Castle grounds, says she is "very ...
  
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• Adventure in Albania: kayaking in one of Europe's final frontiers

  19-05-2018 11:00
  With wild rivers, mountains and Unesco sites aplenty, Albania is emerging as an exciting Mediterranean destination – but its wilderness could be devastated by huge dam-building projects‘Go, go, go!” The white-water rafting guide shouted orders from the back of the boat and our five-strong crew paddled hard to stay on course. We were tackling a stretch of the Vjosa, a 270km river that begins in Greece (where it is called the Aoös) and flows through Albania and into the Adri
  
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• Canadians rise for early-morning royal wedding celebrations

  19-05-2018 10:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The big day has arrived. With wedding bells soon to toll on the grounds of Windsor Palace, alarm clocks are chiming across the ocean as bleary-eyed Canadians rise at the ...
  
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• Canadian family among throngs of royal fans camping out for glimpse of newlyweds

  19-05-2018 10:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, United Kingdom - A family of Canadian royal fans is among the many people who are camping out around Windsor Castle in order to catch a glimpse of Prince ......
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s barbecue recipes

  19-05-2018 10:00
  Thai skewers, beetroot with pickled chilli and scotch bonnet bass will bring the heat to your garden even if the weather doesn’tEvery year, I end up testing barbecue recipes in the rain, with an umbrella balanced precariously on one shoulder, but this year’s mission coincided with the hottest April week in 70 years. Barbecue sales doubled, supermarkets ran out of burgers, rosé and sun cream, and I leapt on the balmy bandwagon by celebrating the spring sun with ingredients from
  
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• The Latest: Harry, Meghan to become Duke, Duchess of Sussex

  19-05-2018 09:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WINDSOR, England - The Latest on the royal wedding (all times local):8:20 a.m.Queen Elizabeth II has conferred a dukedom on Prince Harry — making him the Duke of Sussex, Earl ......
  
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• Dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin: ‘I go away once a year – no horses for 10 days’

  19-05-2018 09:00
  The 32-year-old Olympic champion on retail therapy, apple crumble and never doing nothing Sleep I’m one of those people who needs their sleep. If I don’t get enough I can be pretty grumpy, so I go to bed early and wake early. I start riding by 7.30am and I’m usually so exhausted from a day’s training my head is on the pillow by 9.30pm. I might watch a bit of telly but then I’m out; I’m like an old person. I’ve always been a deep sleeper; not even the pro
  
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• What links Paddington Bear, Daniel Craig and Ernie? The Weekend quiz

  19-05-2018 08:00
  From a church to a battle, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Where did Simeon Stylites spend 37 years in the fifth century?
  2 Who coined the term “the banality of evil” and about whom?
  3 Which Georgian church stands on the corner of Trafalgar Square?
  4 What 2003 document plagiarised work by Ibrahim al-Marashi?
  5 Who played Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown?
  6 What are thrown in an annual festival in Buñol, Spain?
  7 Which country was ruled by queens from 1890 to 2013?
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• ‘Foxtons charged us £4,000 to find totally unsuitable tenants’

  19-05-2018 08:00
  Landlord Anne Day accuses the lettings agency of failing to carry out basic checks on the people who rented her £400,00 flatIt was only a few weeks after the tenants found and verified by Foxtons moved into Anne and John Day’s luxury two-bed flat in Lewisham, south-east London, that the complaints began.Rubbish strewn outside the flat – a property valued at more than £400,000 – angered the neighbours. Lots of visitors arrived at all times of the day and night. Noise
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘At climbercise, they trick me into thinking climbing’s a relief’ | Zoe Williams

  19-05-2018 08:00
  The cardio was fine. The bench hops were extraordinarily difficult, and I pretended to need the looI tricked my Mr into going to climbercise with me by pretending it was like bouldering (which he does), only with ropes. In fact, it was like circuits, only with ropes. No, wait, it was like climbing, then doing circuits, then doing more climbing, then doing more circuits. I also booked us in to see jazz afterwards (there’s a club around the corner from the gym). It was like the 12 Labours of
  
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• The genius of Wolfe's white suits

  19-05-2018 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Tom Wolfe would have been just as brilliant without the white suit, but he would not have been nearly as interesting. His fashion harked to the past while his prose ...
  
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• Royal wedding party tips for the uninvited

  19-05-2018 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  If you’re like me and did not receive a handwritten invitation to this morning’s royal wedding, then, unfortunately, you are totally out of luck.Or, as our British friends like to ...
  
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• Kids achieve success when they're proud of what they do

  19-05-2018 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Parents know that grit and inner motivation are building blocks to success, yet they sometimes struggle with how to instil these qualities in their children. Recent research finds they have ...
  
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• HaCHere pop-ups offer taste of something new

  19-05-2018 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Something new is hatching in Winnipeg’s food scene.
  For several weeks of Sundays, the HaCHere (pronounced “hatchery”) Pop Up Collective will give diners a chance to try multi-course meals from ...
  
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• Are you a Laurel or a Yanny? The debate rages

  19-05-2018 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  If you haven’t heard about Yanny vs. Laurel, you likely will.It’s a piece of audio that can ruin your day — not everyone hears the same thing when they listen ...
  
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• Panda Beer anyone? Craft beers flow in middle-class China

  19-05-2018 03:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SHANGHAI - "Panda Beer," ''Little General," ''Flying Fist IPA," and "Mandarin Wheat" are among the offerings on tap at a craft beer exhibition this week in Shanghai dedicated to expanding ...
  
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• Scene setter

  19-05-2018 02:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  According to an article in the Globe and Mail, the three most dangerous jobs in Canada are logger, fisheries worker and airplane pilot. You can now add “voice actor” to ...
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,513

  19-05-2018 01:00
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