By Carley Petesch The Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal Bill Amahdou dips his brush into a tin of white paint sitting on the sandy road, and effortlessly outlines a Senegalese flag on a truck’s back flap. He then paints an eye within an orange heart next to the flag. Disparate images […]
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The Canadian Press With grocery prices continuing to rise, many Canadians are looking for ways to save on their food dollar. Pulses, which are grown in Canada, are a great way to boost protein for not much money. Stock your pantry with a variety of beans, peas, chickpeas and lentils. […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Years ago, a friend took me to one of his favourite restaurants in New York City. Dinner was fantastic, the company riveting, but what stayed with me most was dessert: maple budino. One bite and I was smitten. The pudding was luxuriously fatty and […]
The Canadian Press Chefs are devoting entire cookbooks to creative vegetable recipes. Yotam Ottolenghi, who has four locations of his eponymous restaurant as well as Nopi in London, England, wrote “Plenty” and “Plenty More.” His newest cookbook, “Nopi,” also contains some spectacular vegetable dishes that are served at the high-end […]
By Daniella Cheslow The Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territory Christian faithful from around the world descended Thursday on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, as an outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence dampened the typically festive mood. Before the celebrations began, Israeli authorities […]
The Associated Press MOSCOW Shedding the pounds in Siberia can come with a particularly welcome reward ‚Äî coal. Yelena Salnikova, a nurse from a small town of Berezovskoye, got a truck full of the stuff from authorities in the coal-rich Russian region of Kemerovo on Wednesday for losing 30 kilos […]
By Mary Esch The Associated Press ROTTERDAM, N.Y. An 8-year-old girl who lost her father and younger siblings in an arson fire that left her severely scarred is sharing the good cheer that has been bestowed on her, by the tractor-trailer load, since her simple Christmas wish went viral. Safyre […]
The Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. Police say an Oregon man angry with his tax situation left a flock of seven chickens inside the state revenue office. Police in Eugene said in a news release they responded to a report Wednesday afternoon of chickens left in the lobby of the Oregon […]
The Associated Press PORT ANGELES, Wash. An Arctic drilling rig that has made its home in the U.S. harbour of Port Angeles in Washington state is expected to depart for Europe. The Peninsula Daily News reports (http://is.gd/RmJvif ) the giant oil drilling platform, the Polar Pioneer, has been welded to […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK The twin birth rate hit at an all-time high last year in the United States while the rate for triplets, quadruplets, and higher was the lowest in two decades. Of the nearly 4 million babies born last year, more than 135,000 were […]
By Katherine Roth The Associated Press Home sweet home. It seems so simple. But while the idea of “home” remains constant, the epitome of the familiar and reliable, actual home life is messier and changes all the time. So says Judith Flanders, author of “The Making of Home: The 500-Year […]
The Associated Press PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. Peterson Air Force base is getting ready for its annual holiday mission ‚Äî tracking Santa’s storybook sleigh ride around the world. The North American Aerospace Defence Command has been working for weeks to tackle the one-day mission. Miles of wire, dozens of […]
