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The best recipes from Zoe founder Tim Spector’s new book
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The best recipes from Zoe founder Tim Spector’s new book

Untangling the latest evidence and scientific understanding of how food impacts us and why is no mean feat. I have been researching gut and overall health for many years, and have landed on some key guiding principles that have helped me – and I hope will help you – to eat smarter. The recipes below will make following these rules even easier. Diversity of plant species in our diet is more crucial for gut health than the specific type of diet we follow (vegan, pescatarian, carnivore, etc.). Consuming a variety of about 30 different plant species each week emerges as a key strategy for nurturing a healthy gut microbiome and, by extension, overall wellbeing. 2. Eat the Rainbow: The Spectrum of HealthThe adage ‘Eat the Rainbow’ encapsulates a fundamental principle of nutrition that emphasises...
The airport landing so challenging only 50 pilots are qualified to do it
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The airport landing so challenging only 50 pilots are qualified to do it

By Lilit Narcus of CNN Passengers disembark after landing at the Paro International Airport in Bhutan. File pic Photo: AFP / Christian Kober There's a Buddha in the cockpit. The orange-robed icon looks on as the pilot speedily executes a dramatic last-minute turn to land the A319 on the slender runway. A dozen passengers, some of whom have spent the last few minutes white-knuckling the seat armrests, break out into applause. That's just another normal working day at Bhutan's Paro International Airport (PBH), widely considered one of the most technically difficult plane landings in the world. Manoeuvring onto a short runway between two 18,000-foot peaks requires both technical knowledge and nerves of steel. The airport and its challenging conditions have only added to the mystique su...
Canary Islands: Thousands demonstrate against tourism in holiday resorts | World News
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Canary Islands: Thousands demonstrate against tourism in holiday resorts | World News

Thousands of people have taken part in protests against tourism in holiday resorts across the Canary Islands.There were simultaneous demonstrations in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro on Sunday calling for a change in the tourism model for the Spanish islands. In the Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, a resort popular with British holidaymakers, protesters appeared on the beach while tourists were sunbathing and chanted: "This beach is ours."At least 8,000 people took part in the protests under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, the Spanish government said. Image: Thousands of protesters took part. Pic: Reuters Activists say local people are being priced out of the housing market ...
Donald Trump thrusts McDonald’s into political arena in final days of election
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Donald Trump thrusts McDonald’s into political arena in final days of election

By Steve Contorno, CNN Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump works the drive-through line as he visits a McDonald's restaurant. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP Donald Trump is pulling one of the most iconic American companies - McDonald's - into the political arena in the final days of his third White House bid. The former president stopped by one of the fast-food chain's Pennsylvania franchises during his Monday swing through the Keystone State, where he swapped his suit jacket for an apron to work as a fry attendant. He later handed customers food through the drive-thru window, telling them he had made it himself and that it was all on him. Manning the fry machine is the same job Vice President Kamala Harris has said she held as a young woman, a biographical detail revea...
Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy, 48, announces terminal cancer diagnosis
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Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy, 48, announces terminal cancer diagnosis

By Issy Ronald, CNN Photo: ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy has announced that he has terminal cancer and that doctors have given him two to four years to live. The 48-year-old former cyclist, who is one of Britain's most successful and recognizable Olympians, shared his diagnosis with The Sunday Times newspaper, saying that he initially went to the hospital last September after feeling some pain in his shoulder. A scan found a tumour there, before a second scan found primary cancer in his prostate which had spread to his bones. The scans found tumours in his shoulder, pelvis, hip, spine and rib. "As unnatural as it feels, this is nature. You know, we were all born and we all die, and this is just part of the process," he told The Sunday Times. "Hand on heart,...
Gandi Baat: Case against Ekta Kapoor for inappropriate scenes involving minors
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Gandi Baat: Case against Ekta Kapoor for inappropriate scenes involving minors

Producer Ekta Kapoor and her mother Shobha Kapoor have landed in legal trouble. A case has been filed against them under the POCSO Act for allegedly showing inappropriate scenes involving minor girls in an episode of the ALT Balaji`s web series `Gandi Baat`. The case is related to season 6 of the web series `Gandi Baat` on the OTT platform `Alt Balaji`. According to Mumbai Police, a case has been registered against Balaji Telefilm Limited, Ekta Kapoor and her mother Shobha Kapoor at MHB police station in Mumbai under section 295-A of IPC, IT Act and sections 13 and 15 of POCSO Act. It is written in the complaint that this series, which streamed on `Alt Balaji` between February 2021 and April 2021, showed obscene scenes of minor girls. However, this controversial episode is not currently...
Elon Musk’s daily $1 million payouts at Donald Trump rally draw legal scrutiny
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Elon Musk’s daily $1 million payouts at Donald Trump rally draw legal scrutiny

By Jarrett Renshaw, Reuters Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an attendee of his America PAC event aimed at rallying supporters behind presidential candidate rump. Photo: AFP Musk awards first US$1 million (NZ$1.65m) to event attendee He has given $75 million to America PAC to support Trump America PAC is helping to mobilise, register voters Billionaire Elon Musk promised to give away $1 million each day until November's election to someone who signs his online petition, with the first prize awarded at a PAC event supporting Republican Donald Trump, raising questions about the legality of the payments. Musk gave a $1 million (NZ$1.65m) check to an attendee of his America PAC event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, aimed at rallying supporters behind presidential candidate Trump. T...
Pope names 14 new saints, including martyrs of Damascus
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Pope names 14 new saints, including martyrs of Damascus

Pope Francis presides over the Holy Mass and canonisation of 14 saints and martyrs, at the Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican. Photo: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP Pope Francis has created a new group of saints, canonising 14 individuals including the "martyrs of Damascus", killed in Syria during the Ottoman Empire and symbols of Christian persecution. Francis presided over the canonisation ceremony in Saint Peter's Square in the presence of thousands of Catholic faithful from around the world on Sunday local time (Monday NZT). "We enrol them among the saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole Church," proclaimed Francis, after reciting each name. Canonisation is the final step towards sainthood in the Catholic Church, following beatification. Three conditions are r...
Cancer patients nearly 5 times more likely to go bankrupt, find researchers
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Cancer patients nearly 5 times more likely to go bankrupt, find researchers

Cancer patients are nearly five times more likely to experience bankruptcy, as financial fallout can follow patients with cancer and their families in the form of lower credit scores and other forms of monetary challenges years after a cancer diagnosis. For patients with bladder, liver, lung, and colorectal cancers, the impact on credit scores was larger compared with other types of cancers, said researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston in the US. “These are the first studies to provide numerical evidence of financial toxicity among cancer survivors. Previous data on this topic largely relies on subjective survey reviews,” said Benjamin C James, chief of general surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor of surg...
King Charles and Queen Camilla sign historic bible King signed with Princess Diana over four decades ago | World News
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King Charles and Queen Camilla sign historic bible King signed with Princess Diana over four decades ago | World News

King Charles and Queen Camilla have signed a historic bible on their trip to Australia, over four decades after the monarch signed the same book with Princess Diana.The King is on his first foreign trip since his cancer diagnosis and took a day of rest before beginning his tour on Sunday. Attending a church in a north Sydney suburb, the King signed a bible brought over with the First Fleet.However, it wasn't the first time the King had done so and his signature was visible, alongside Princess Diana's, from a trip the couple took in 1983.Other royals, seemingly including Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Prince William and the Princess of Wales, had also signed the page. Image: King Charles III turns the hourglass he gifted the parliament....