3 h. ago Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships

Indian refinery received at least four crude shipments this year worth almost $280mn on sanctions-listed vessels

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4 h. ago Australian women’s cricketers exceed $1m in earnings – with more riches on the horizon

Five players surge past mark amid growing financial opportunitiesThey could soon be joined by others with WPL ‘mega auction’ loomingFive of Australia’s all-conquering team set for a showdown against hosts India in the women’s cricket World Cup semi-final on Thursday have surged through the threshold of $1m annual earnings, as the growing financial opportunities in the global game approach and even exceed the value of Cricket Australia contracts.That group might soon expand too, given an Indian Women’s Premier League “mega auction” is scheduled for November. The Australians – who have won three of the past four world T20 titles and are defending 50-over champions – are set to attract significant interest from the five franchises, each of which have approximately $2.6m to spend for the month-long tournament. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Arnold Schwarzenegger's son Christopher reveals hunky body transformation after weight loss journey

The 28-year-old nepo baby showed off his buff physique as he was seen enjoying a family day at a pumpkin patch in Brentwood, California on Sunday.

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14 h. ago Lynsey Crombie’s easy & safe hack to make pumpkins last longer after it’s carved & it stops it going mouldy or rotting

WITH Halloween nearly upon us, many households will be carving pumpkins to celebrate.  And if you’ve ever been dismayed to find yours going mouldy, there is a handy trick which can help it last longer.  Lynsey Crombie, known as the ‘Queen of Clean’, shared a genius pumpkin hack, which can prevent them turning into a...

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15 h. ago One of the oldest Indian restaurants in Greater Manchester and city centre street food spot recognised at top awards

Greater Manchester has been recognised as amongst the best in the UK’s curry scene

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15 h. ago This Halloween vegetable is a ‘nutritional gold mine’ and packed with protein

Every part of a pumpkin is edible – so don't throw away the skin or innards if you're carving a jack-o'-lantern

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16 h. ago Pug Sporting Tiny Pumpkin Hat on the London Tube Just Won Halloween

Pug Sporting Tiny Pumpkin Hat on the London Tube Just Won Halloween  ParadePets

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17 h. ago A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours

Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascinating, but they gain nothing from works shown with them hereAs you enter the galleries you can’t avoid the slobbish giant. Maybe it is drunk or drugged as it towers and slumps, a red and brown creature with a demonic face and sagging stomach. If the cord suspending it from the ceiling snapped it would just be a pile of hemp on the floor.This monster has all the qualities that make the art of Mrinalini Mukherjee, who was born in Mumbai in 1949 and died in 2015, funny, fascinating and surreal. She created it in 1985, making it, like many of her works, with tightly woven, intensely coloured natural fibres. It is called Pakshi, meaning bird, and now I see it, the feathery flanks and floppy wings. Mukherjee’s sculpture is a hallucinatory but sharply observed response to nature, full of echoes of the Indian landscape and, in this case, India’s skies. If a bird can become an ogre in...

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18 h. ago Corner shop curry: Three exceptional convenience stores with incredible homemade Indian food

From a Londis in Stoke Newington to a Shoreditch off licence, here’s where to find exceptional curry for little over a fiver

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18 h. ago I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visitIn an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024’s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took...

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19 h. ago The fall spice essential to pumpkin spice lattes and mulled wine that can help kill bacteria in your body

That piece of pumpkin pie just got sweeter

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19 h. ago Sweet dreams? Healthy ways to put pudding back on the menu | Kitchen aide

Our expert panel delivers the answers to levelling up your dessert without undoing your healthy eating effortsI eat healthily, but my meals are never really complete without pudding. Yoghurt and stewed fruit aside, do you have any suggestions for what will hit the spot without verging too far into the unhealthy? Wendy, by emailThe truth is, you can’t often have your cake and eat it – or not a big piece, anyway. “My main piece of advice, which maybe isn’t all that welcome, is to keep to small portions,” says Brian Levy, author of Good & Sweet, in which his recipes contain no added sugar. “My grandma would keep many chocolate bars and have just one, but that’s never really worked for me.”’Tis the season for stewed fruit, but have you tried Melissa Hemsley’s banana slices sandwiched together with peanut butter, half-dipped in melted chocolate and put in the freezer? (FYI the same tactic also works like a dream with dates.) “You can’t beat frozen grapes, either,” says baker Lily Jon...

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23 h. ago Tzatziki will be more flavourful if you include 1 step a Greek mum swears by

One food writer shared her secret family recipe for making the best tzatziki dip that's creamy and full of flavour

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26 h. ago Golden bakes on a budget: Three cosy dinners for autumn nights

Flaky filo, creamy mash and plenty of melted cheese – this month’s Budget Bites serves up comforting pies and bakes that prove hearty home cooking doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag

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28 h. ago Zanzibar is seeing a seaweed boom. Can the women collecting it cash in?

Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics

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31 h. ago Meghan finally shows Archie and Lilibet's faces: All the details you might have missed in the Sussexes' pumpkin patch video

The Duchess of Sussex, 44, has shared her most intimate glimpse at her life in Montecito to date as she detailed her family's preparations for Halloween.

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35 h. ago Pumpkins are ‘nutritional gold mines’ that shouldn’t be tossed in the trash. Here’s what to do with yours after Halloween instead

Experts say not to worry if your pumpkin’s been sitting on the porch all month

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39 h. ago The 10 south east London Indian restaurants up to win prestigious awards

The 10 south east London Indian restaurants up to win prestigious awards  News Shopper

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40 h. ago 'Cotswolds Taj Mahal' is unexpected hidden gem in the countryside

The stunning Mughal Indian-style building built in 1805 offers guests a slice of India — right in the heart of Gloucestershire's picturesque Cotswolds countryside

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40 h. ago The government shutdown staring contest will finally get real this week: Who blinks first?

Up until now, most of the American public has been insulated from the shutdown’s effects, Eric Garcia writes. But with SNAP recipients going hungry, labor groups demanding the government reopen and ongoing health insurance enrollment, Trump and Democrats might be forced to find a solution.

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