• Buddhist site blends recreation education and spiritual tranquility

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• Maids to measure Forget the taffeta and ruffles bridesmaids are going down the aisle in style

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• Newport fails to curb retail exodus as big names pack up shop

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• Sleep problems warn of Alzheimers

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• Masculinity in crisis There is a battle going on inside us that is never discussed

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• Housing market the rule of bad ideas | Editorial

  you can't cure a crisis caused by debt with more debt ", has wedged at the heart of his economic strategy a scheme to do just that - except this time it will not be the sovereign state that takes on debt, but thousands of households. The coalition that vowed to rebalance the lopsided economy has apparently given up on all that: the much-castigated (not least by David Cameron), ...

• Kids urged to do sports not violence

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• Lifestyle Law strips Joint Admissions Board of its mandate

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• Krav maga builds fitness for street survival

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• RPT-Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

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• Lifestyle TSC accused of disrupting learning

  learning . "The commission's move amounts to sabotage. The on-going transfers which is carried out mid-year when candidates are preparing for mock and final exams is uncalled for and it should be halted," he said yesterday. Sawoinah added: "The transfers, which are being carried out in piece meal is detrimental to good performance. Most schools in rural areas have a big ...

• Lifestyle Knut petitions State to increase funding to education sector

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• Lifestyle Mauritius-based hospital seeks to hire Kenyan nurses

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• Privatised service is failing NHS patients – official

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• Letters Legal aid cuts will hit the homeless

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• FSU two-sport star Jameis Winston throws out Clemson baserunner | Video

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• HM King Hamad Receives GCC Youth and Sport Officials

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• Fall TV poll YOUR No. 1 new show

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• Sports Zarika stops Namugerwa in bantam weight bout

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• Sports Karuturi Sports beat Bandari as Sony win

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• Clinical anxiety is becoming a worry

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• Star Trek is No. 1 movie $70.6M

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• Health fears over high fresh food price

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• Ross River vaccine close

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• Fashion Audit Learned literature Tacky tats and new Choos

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• The latest mens grooming fad laser hair removal for Hobbit feet

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• Lawyers treatment of gang grooming victims prompts call for reform

  "I want to ask you once more why you are telling lies?" demands defence barrister Tayyab Khan. He is cross-examining a witness on her evidence relating to the multiple violent rapes she suffered at the instigation of a child-grooming gang operating in the West Midlands."No," she says. "I'm not telling lies." She breaks down, but the court transcript shows the ...

• Jobseekers and benefits data release postponed by DWP

  benefits as a result of a tougher sanctions regime introduced by the coalition in October.The DWP said there were "some significant doubts about the quality of the new regime statistics", due to have been published this week, adding it was not possible to give a date when they would be in a form fit to print.Ministers have also suspended planned publication of the figures from ...

• Workfare placements must be made public tribunal rules

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• Man mugged outside 24 Hour Fitness

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• Alexander Fury ‘Issie’ Blow the pioneer who gave us style – and bags of it

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• Test your beer logo IQ

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• Motherlode Blog Ending the Secrecy of a Child’s Addiction

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• SNL A Lovely Day ends an era

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• Rock Hall of Fame Blah blah BLAH

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• Three killed in Vegas highway crash wrong-way driver blamed

  Three people were killed and four others were critically injured Sunday in a collision involving an apparent wrong-way driver in Las Vegas, police said. The Nevada Highway Patrol said an Acura was traveling north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 and plowed into an oncoming sport utility vehicle. Both drivers and a passenger in the SUV were killed. Four others were taken to hospitals in ...

• Lifestyle Facebook blocks social suicide app

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• Law Minister Kapil Sibal speaks to Sports Minister Jitendra Singh proposes anti-fixing law

  New Delhi : In the wake of controversy over spot-fixing in IPL matches, the Sports Ministry has started holding consultations with the Law Ministry to draft a new law to deal with betting in sports."Yes, I talked to (Sports Minister) Jitendra Singh.We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law Minister Kapil Sibal told PTI in New Delhi today.He said the ...

• Government mulling a new law to deal with betting in sports

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• Sports Roman Abramovich to pay over £30m for Wayne Rooney

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• Sports CHELSEA are set to sell Fernando Torres

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• Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle

  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st ...

• Pope warns Church against closing in on itself

  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost Sunday attended by more than 200,000 people, urging the faithful to be open and present in a new and changing ...

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