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• Egyptian archaeologists find sandstone sphinx in temple at Aswan

  16-09-2018 20:51
  Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry said on Sunday.
  
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• What the skirt suit tells us about power dressing in 2018

  16-09-2018 17:00
  Synonymous with 80s career women and status, the skirt suit this season is discovering life outside the boardroomRead more from the autumn/winter 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementIt has been a long while since fashion showed any love to the skirt suit. Slouchy trouser suits have recently been rehabilitated; sensible court shoes have made it on to the Vetements catwalk. But the skirt suit – with all its associations of Margaret Thatcher and corporate anonymity &nd
  
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• Victoria Beckham's London fashion week show debut oozes confidence

  16-09-2018 15:24
  The designer has used a decade at New York fashion week to refine her polish with edginessOn the off chance that there was anyone out there who had not yet clocked Victoria Beckham’s evolution from Spice Girl into sophisticated fashion designer, the opening 10 seconds of her first ever London catwalk show elegantly drove the point home.The veteran British model Stella Tennant, star of Chanel and Céline shows and still catwalk royalty at 47, stalked down a sweeping marble staircase w
  
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• What climate change means for the wine industry

  16-09-2018 13:00
  The warmer weather may benefit English vineyards, but winemakers from Bordeaux to California are struggling. Here are six wines rising to the challengeOne of the ways the British media covers climate change is to treat it as a bit of banter in silly-season items on English wine. This summer’s heatwave was the pretext for an awful lot of these “and finally” moments, in which the tone is unfailingly flippant: never mind the melting Arctic, the shires will take over from Champagne
  
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• Mary Katrantzou: ‘I’m one of those designers who only ever wears black'

  16-09-2018 13:00
  Her clothing designs are famously bold and colourful, but the London-based Greek designer explains why she prefers to keep it dark
  Read more from the autumn/winter 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementWhy I wear black is one of the questions I get asked most. Up until I launched my own brand 10 years ago, I would wear colour; I wasn’t all about wearing black. It happened subconsciously and after a while I didn’t think about it any more – it became my unif
  
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• Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘I don’t know why more people don't read Mein Kampf’

  16-09-2018 13:00
  ‘There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book,’ says the Norwegian author who discusses his autobiographical novels, his love of schnitzel and Liverpool FCFor anyone who has read all or part of the six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical novel My Struggle, I guess it would be a profoundly curious thing to meet him in person. The books – he likes to call them “the project”, as if they were a sort of demonic exercise &nda
  
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• London Fashion Week: Victoria Beckham brings it home

  16-09-2018 12:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Victoria Beckham has brought her fashion brand home to London Fashion Week for the first time to mark a decade in the business.The former Spice Girl celebrated the ......
  
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• Taste Test: from lemon tart to tiramisu, the best supermarket puds

  16-09-2018 12:30
  Cookery writer Georgina Hayden picks up her spoon to taste and rate high-street desserts Continue reading...
  
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• Len & Alex Deighton’s Italian Cookstrips: Pici

  16-09-2018 12:30
  Len: Italian grandmothers join the strips of dough to make one continuous noodle.
  Alex: I give a strip to each guest and we all make dinner together.Len Deighton is the author of the Action Cookbook and French Cooking for Men (HarperCollins) Continue reading...
  
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• Cucina paradiso: Joe Trivelli’s modern Italian home cooking

  16-09-2018 12:29
  The River Cafe chef on his mentors in the kitchen and what he cooks for his family. Plus six recipes from his new book, The Modern Italian CookThe idea of a celebrated restaurant chef compiling a cookbook of dishes that he or she actually cooks at home is almost a joke set-up. Given their antisocial hours, and overexposure to rich flavours, the punchline would be something like: “How many recipes for beans on toast do you need?”And yet, this is what Joe Trivelli set out to do with hi
  
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• OFM’s classic cookbook: Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat

  16-09-2018 12:00
  Where it all began: Nigel Slater celebrates the 20th anniversary of Nigella Lawson’s first cookbook. Plus six brilliant recipesHow to Eat is easy to find on my bookshelf. It is the book in tatters. The one whose spine is torn, whose pages are smeared, smudged and scorched. The book that has clearly done service for 20 years.You can tell from the title this is more than a recipe book. From the first entry for roast chicken (stick half a lemon up its bottom) to the last – Marmite sandw
  
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• Alexa Chung’s designer debut sees London tomboy meets Parisian chic

  16-09-2018 09:25
  The fashionista’s first catwalk show, at London fashion week, was assured – and unmistakably inspired by her own personal style“Going to catwalk shows and being photographed wearing nice clothes doesn’t make you an expert on them,” said Alexa Chung on Saturday before her debut show as a fashion designer.True, but the glamorous version of on-the-job training – which saw Chung become a well-known face at London fashion week long before she launched her Alexachun
  
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• I was duped by a copycat website – can I get my money back?

  16-09-2018 08:00
  The lookalike site overcharged for ‘assistance’ with the US Esta visa waiverI wish I had read your recent article on copycat websites. I have just fallen victim to one over a recent Esta application. When I applied for my first one, five years ago, I am sure such sites did not exist – or maybe I was just lucky to avoid them. This time I thought I had selected the official website, so it was quite a good fake. I have certainly learnt my lesson. Having paid $99 for “assista
  
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• Bite the bullet train and head to Japan

  16-09-2018 08:00
  Instead of lazing by the Med, Jay Rayner decided to take his family to Japan. It wasn’t an entirely selfless act … food played a major part, naturallyGetting to eat the good stuff in Tokyo can be a challenge. The problem isn’t finding the right places. The concierge team at the city’s hotels work harder than most making restaurant reservations, and ours at the Mandarin Oriental is no exception. They have sent us to a bustling, wood-lined izakaya, or food pub, down a side
  
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• Why it's hard to find that Tinder-fella

  16-09-2018 07:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Like most singles in the modern age, I have now met far more dating prospects online than anywhere else. But despite the swarms of matches over the years, I’ve never ......
  
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• Love at first chest compression, the ultimate meet cute

  16-09-2018 07:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Andi Traynor and Max Montgomery met each other on Facebook through mutual friends. They had gotten together casually and non-romantically a few times, then decided to go surfing early one ...
  
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• Xi’an Biang Biang Noodles, London: ‘I left thinking all was well in the world’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  16-09-2018 07:00
  Slurp joyously at this brilliant noodle joint – and drown your fears over Britain’s Chinese eateriesXi’an Biang Biang Noodles, 62 Wentworth Street, London E1 7AL (020 8617 1470). Small plates £4.80-£7.50, big plates £7.90-£11.20, wine from £16.50 a bottleThese are complex times for Britain’s Chinese restaurants. I know this because recently I sat on a panel about their future at Asia House in London. For the most part I was listening to my fe
  
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• My friends and I are single, childless – and running out of time | Dear Mariella

  16-09-2018 06:59
  The fight for gender equality goes on – so focus on shaping the world you want, Mariella Frostrup tells a woman whose biological clock is tickingThe dilemma Like me, most of my friends are in their 30s, some turning 40. Those with partners and children have disappeared, other than posting their idyllic family life.We’ve tried all of the dating things, found no one and biological clocks are ticking. One friend said her life is not worth living because she hasn’t got a partner or
  
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• Japan's Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel award

  16-09-2018 04:57
  Japanese author Haruki Murakami has asked for the withdrawal of his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed this year over a sexual misconduct scandal, saying he...
  
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• Fish tales: the women working in Scotland’s fishing industry - in pictures

  16-09-2018 00:45
  Fishing fleets have long depended on female workers to process their catch. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ‘herring lassies’ would follow the boats down the east coast of Scotland to gut and salt-pickle their fish. Today’s fisherwomen work in refrigerated factories, some of whom have been captured by photographer Craig Easton for his ‘Fish Wives’ project. Easton’s images will be part of an exhibition travelling along Scottish coast from April 2019,
  
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