Month: January 2025

A rum punch with a sparkling edge If you’re planning on serving this to a crowd, make up a batch of the rum base mix in the morning, then chill it. To serve, simply measure into glasses on the night and top with the fizz. Jonathan Kleeman, group beverage manager, Story Cellar, London WC2 Continue […]
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ICYMI: Be fulfilled with a pan of desirable taste of spaghetti pasta radiating on your dining table this evening with a scrumptious loaf of bake oven bread.
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ICYMI: Across Toronto, a team sets out at dawn to rescue migrating birds that have collided with buildings, and keep a record of the thousands each year that don’t make it

Every morning at dawn, a dozen volunteers scour the streets of Toronto picking up small birds. Some days they will find hundreds of them, most already dead or dying. A few they are able to save. Live birds are put in brown paper bags and driven to wildlife recovery centres, while dead birds are put in a large freezer. If no one picks them up, their carcasses are swept up by street cleaners.

“One of my first days was really horrific,” says Sohail Desai, a volunteer with the charity Fatal Light Awareness Program (Flap) Canada, which has about 135 people patrolling the streets across Toronto. Desai was walking close to his house in the North York area in Toronto when a flock of golden-crowned kinglets flew into a 15-storey glass building. Continue reading…
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ICYMI: Released from prison in 2020 after being jailed for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, he became increasingly desperate to leave – before seizing his opportunity

As he trekked up the lush mountain range on China’s border with Laos, Lu Yuyu felt exhausted. He had been travelling for days, dodging his official minders to slip out of China. His travelling companions were smugglers who he’d paid 15,000 yuan (£1,622) to help him escape, and forced him to keep going until he could be delivered to two men and a scooter for the final few hours of his journey to freedom.

But leaving China was only the first step. Lu had thousands more miles before he would truly feel safe. Continue reading…
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Be fulfilled with a pan of desirable taste of spaghetti pasta radiating on your dining table this evening with a scrumptious loaf of bake oven bread.
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