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Salad and garlic toasts

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Salad and garlic toasts INGREDIENTS • 1 French stick • 300 ml (½ pt) good rapeseed oil • 2 tsp dried Herbes de Provence (from supermarkets) • Maldon sea...
Amplats has fired 12,000 striking South African miners after a protracted strike over wages

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Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's biggest platinum producer, has fired 12,000 striking South African miners after a protracted strike over wages. Amplats said three...
Skyfall, the new James Bond theme sung by Adele, has topped the iTunes chart

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Skyfall, the new James Bond theme sung by Adele, has topped the iTunes chart after being released online in the early hours of Friday...
The gaming hobby of political candidate Colleen Lachowicz has become an issue in a state senate race in New England

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The gaming hobby of political candidate Colleen Lachowicz has become an issue in a state senate race in New England, US. Maine Republicans have created...
People in Saudi Arabia are using social media websites to protest against a sudden increase in the cost of chicken

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People in Saudi Arabia are using social media websites to protest against a sudden increase in the cost of chicken. A Twitter campaign entitled Let...
Martin Bell's course Perfectly Poised takes place in his offices in the posh suburb of Clifton

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British clinician Martin Bell is so fed up with treating women for joint pain because of their high heels he has devised a course...
Scientists have devised a formula that predicts a woman’s chances of pregnancy

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Scientists have devised a formula that predicts a woman’s chances of pregnancy. The formula combines information about how fertility drops with age with the length...
NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing to scoop its first sample of Martian soil

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NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing to scoop its first sample of Martian soil. The vehicle, which landed on the Red Planet in August, has driven...
Thierry Gillier has apologized for saying that Chinese holidaymakers will not be welcome at his luxury hotel

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French fashion designer Thierry Gillier has apologized for saying that Chinese holidaymakers will not be welcome at a luxury hotel he plans to open...
September unemployment rate came in at 7.8 percent

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The US unemployment rate fell in September to its lowest rate since January 2009, figures from the Department of Labor have shown, surprising analysts...
STA Travel proudly sponsors Sony Picture's Hotel Transylvania by giving you a chance to win a trip for two to tour Transylvania

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Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are...
Stem cells made from skin have become "grandparents" after generations of life were created in experiments by scientists in Japan

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Stem cells made from skin have become "grandparents" after generations of life were created in experiments by scientists in Japan. The cells were used to...
Beekeepers in northeastern France have been alarmed to find their bees producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue

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Beekeepers in northeastern France have been alarmed to find their bees producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue. The beekeepers believe the source...
Mitt Romney told Fox News he was committed to helping the 100 percent

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has admitted his remark that 47% of Americans are government dependent victims was "completely wrong". Mitt Romney told Fox News...
Popular with Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes, topknots pull the forehead taut giving wearers a “naturally” Botoxed appearance

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Topknots are the hair look of autumn. Popular with Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes, topknots pull the forehead taut giving wearers a “naturally” Botoxed appearance. Here,...
Chris Brown has opened up about his romance with Rihanna in a candid new video

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Chris Brown has opened up about his romance with Rihanna in a candid new video. Chris Brown posted the footage, which he entitled The Real...
Harvey Ball smiley face for World Smile Day

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As is well known by now throughout the world, Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts, created the smiley face in 1963. That image...
Facebook likes are being added to webpages even if a user has not clicked a like button

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Facebook "likes" are being added to webpages even if a user has not clicked a like button, or even visited the page in question,...
Edwin Velez set himself the seemingly impossible task of losing 100 lbs in those four short months

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At five-foot-six, Edwin Velez weighed 300 pounds when he holidayed in the Bahamas last November. When the 26-year-old from Albertville, Alabama, saw his holiday snaps,...
Victoria Beckham took to Twitter to tell friends and fans about her love for Royal Apothic hand cream she picked up at Anthropologie

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Victoria Beckham regularly endorses her own merchandise, but yesterday she gave a little-known beauty brand her seal of approval. She took to Twitter to tell...
Daryl Hannah was arrested for criminal trespassing and taken to the Wood County Jail

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Daryl Hannah was arrested in northeast Texas on Thursday, along with a 78-year-old landowner as the pair protested an oil pipeline designed to bring...
The ASKAP in Western Australia's outback has 36 antennas with a diametre of 12 m each

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Australia has launched one of the world's fastest telescopes tasked with surveying outer space and probing the origins of stars and galaxies. The Australian Square...