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...A few years ago, another fin whale washed up dead not far from here and Jarvis went to look at it with his mother. By the time they got there, the creature had already begun to decompose....
...Shortly after licking some dark substance from his palm, he’d begun gyrating, leaping and jiggling his befeathered head to the frenzied rhythm of the twin drummers sitting by my feet....
...It was only after he requested documents under the Freedom of Information Act in 2019, and sued the US justice department the following year, that highly redacted documents were released....
...Robert Louis Stevenson, in the dedicatory lines of A Child’s Garden of Verses, refers to his nanny as “My second Mother, my first Wife, / The angel of my infant life.”...
...When his mother had voiced her solemn dedication to public service on her 21st birthday, that declaration seemed wholly natural and touching....
...Ayesha NurdjajaAnd my dad introduced spice and flavours and things that my mother was never used to. And I think from a young age I say that it spiked my battle with a little bit of turmeric . . ....
...Is this the end of Eurostar, the beginning of a new golden age of train travel, or both?...
...In May 2016, chef Ana Roš was the subject of an episode of the globally popular Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table....
...Opec estimated that the world would need 31.4m b/d of its oil next year, down 2.1m b/d from 2017, principally as a result of surging production from US shale....
...Maybe I can do my mum a favour and put a pair of adequately sized shoes under the tree this year....
...She hoodwinked friends and family, even convincing her young son that his mother was dying....
...in 1956 at the age of 24; a menu signed by friends at a celebration lunch; and thousands more items....
...wild, and baby pandas taken from their mothers and raised mostly by humans....
...The population of Chad, however, is around 13m and growing at 3.5 per cent a year, with two-thirds of its people aged under 25....
...Cetaphil is made by Nestlé, the Swiss food giant that has been plagued by controversy for years for promoting its infant formula as an alternative to breast milk....
...After years of decline, poverty rose almost 7 per cent between 2012 and 2013, according to the UN, wiping away some of the improvements made under Chávez....
...Told from Ana’s perspective, Nović’s powerful debut novel is an unflinching study of the traumas of civil war, and of their legacy years later, as the grown-up Ana struggles to put her past behind her in...
...He’d grown up around the forests of his native province southeast of Bangkok and the lure of the wild never went away....
...He was just 37 years old and had left behind a young family: his wife, Rita, an artist, and their two daughters, Lisa, who was a little over a year old, and her infant sister, Judith....
...… Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, by Rob Dinnis and Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum, RRP£12.99/£19.95 A beautifully written and illustrated account of a million years of human habitation...
...Gove was born Graham, the son of an unmarried mother in Edinburgh in August 1967, and was adopted at the age of four months by a couple in Aberdeen....
...On the night after the young Rafa and his family celebrated his winning the Spanish under-12 championship, Toni poured cold water on the proceedings by reading out a list of the previous 25 winners of that...
...It counterbalances a well-meaning 15-year-old boy, Des – “the nicest character I’ve ever created” – against Lionel Asbo, his thuggish 21-year-old uncle and guardian, a petty criminal....
...The usual double-decker sightseeing bus rumbled by and, in the grand Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia on the central waterfront, precociously tireless infants chased each other around the municipal statuary....
...Under Chinese law I am too old, and too single, to do so myself; but I vowed that if I could not be her mother I would be her guardian angel. And so began a frantic race to find and help Donuts....
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