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  • $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival $2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival

    CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...

  • US band Hanson debuts MmmHops Beer

    American pop-rock band Hanson has unveiled a new beer, which they have named 'MmmHops.' According to BeerPulse.com, the India Pale Ale - made with the help of a craft brewery in Oklahoma - was introduced by the band at 'The Hangover Part III' afterparty in Los Angeles on Monday night, People magazine reported. Debuting the uniquely named beer at the afterparty was no accident - the film opens ...

  • Healthy heart ensures healthy kidney

    Scientists have shown that a lifestyle that encourages a healthy heart could also shield patients with chronic kidney diseases from kidney failure and premature death, says a study. The findings, appearing in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), suggest that patients with kidney diseases should be encouraged to improve their heart's health, reports Science Daily. Poor ...

  • Tom Sellers The French Laundry-trained chef on hot dogs jellyfish and floral desserts

    Eating hot dogs and burgers at the fair in Nottingham, where my mother and father took me as a kid. It's not so much the taste that stayed with me, but the smell. Standing by the wagon, with the aroma of burning onions filling my nostrils, it really got me. I still love eating burgers now, particularly at MeatLiquor in ...

  • How to get the look All white

    Technical-look fabrics and utilitarian shapes make white futuristic. Or you can go romantic and retro, adding contrasting accessories or resolutely 2013 materials. DKNY's lattice leather and tulle circle skirt (above, ...


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Gladiator

After several years of major releases, it has finally become clear what the DreamWorks strategy is: Each summer, they try to revive some long-dormant Hollywood genre by giving it a splashy, special-effects-laden modern spin. In 1998, they successfully revived the flag-waving World War II epic with Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan." Last summer, they tried (with considerably less success) t ... ...

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  • Lets take it outside Bill Grangers Bank Holiday feast

    You can't always depend on the weather - but you can avoid the pitfalls of the British barbecue by preparing an elaborate outdoor feast indoors ahead of ...

  • Jamie Olivers Diner 23a Shaftesbury Avenue London

    Avocado fries? Oh, here we go, more Jamie Oliver "reinventing things" (shudder). My last JO experience was at Union Jacks, his pizza venture where the reinvention included such aberrations as Stilton and pork-crackling "flatbread". I was not, it's fair to say, impressed and gave it one of my lowest-ever ...

  • Style shrinks Our experts analyse Lily Allens caped entrance to the Ivor Novello awards

    Rebecca Gonsalves: Time to get ready for a swanky awards bash must be tight for such a busy mum, hence the messy up-do and minimal make-up.Hugh Montgomery: Not a lunatic fringe. It has definitely never voted ...

  • The Help Desk A reluctant prospective father

    Louisa Saunders is associate features editor of The Independent and writes a weekly advice column, The Help Desk, for the Independent on Sunday's New Review ...

  • Fish-finger sandwiches with roasted tomato and black-olive relish

    2 tbsp plain flour 6 tbsp polenta tsp cayenne pepper 600g/1lb firm white skinless fish, cut into 5cm lengths 5 tbsp light-flavoured oilFor the relish300g/10oz baby plum tomatoes, halved 1 tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 1 red chilli, chopped 50g/2oz pitted Kalamata olives, tornTo serve6 crusty buns 100g/3oz rocket Good-quality mayonnaiseHeat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas6. Put the ...

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