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• Weekend Catchup: Yahoo and Tumblr, YouTube Turns Eight and a New Surface RT Commercial

  
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  Once again back to our Monday morning and with everyone catching up on the weekend of tech here are three items that caught my eye. Yahoo board OKs $1.1B purchase of Tumblr (Market Watch): Rumors about this were floating already during last week and this would be huge for Yahoo!  One question I could not get ...
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• Summer activities for kids at Dubai International Art Centre

  
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  Summer is back and so is the fun at Dubai International Art Centre (DIAC) that’s buzzing with cool creative indoor activities. Read more: Summer Camps Summer is back and so is the fun at Dubai International Art Centre (DIAC) that’s buzzing with cool creative indoor activities. Coming up next month is an ...
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• Inferno by Dan Brown

  
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  Infernal prose flows again from the bat-thronged belfry of Dan Browns demented brain
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• Cannes taps into the power of nostalgia to fight TV and rival festivals

  
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  For decades its conspicuous excess dazzled the world, but film-makers are increasingly turning to television to show off their wares When Carey Mulligan ditches the Tiffany spangles and Prada sequins of The Great Gatsby , in favour of a baggy jumper and the dingy folk music venues she favours in her role in the new ...
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• Here and Now: Letters, 2008‑2011 by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee – review

  
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  Paul Auster and JM Coetzee are clever fellows, but their elegant correspondence suffers from a lack of venom and indiscretion The demise of letter writing is the cause of widespread lament. The mourning, youd say, is less for the reading or writing of letters than for the care for friendship which they imply. In the ...
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• Derry gets its cultural kicks and a new start from local heroes

  
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  All communities are reaping the benefit in the 2013 UK city of culture, as visitors pour in and a new generation of talent flourishes, with a little help from old hitmakers
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• Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review

  
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  Melvyn Braggs latest novel is an insightful, moving tale of ageing and our helplessness in the face of dementia Theres a scene in Derek Cianfrances Blue Valentine where the Ryan Gosling character redecorates the room of an old gent in a nursing home, carefully personalising the institutional walls. The old man ...
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• Uniting Europe

  
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  Grumble all you like about the EU – as long as you dont start another war Sometimes I feel as if Ive lived longer than most with the idea of a united Europe that so disgusts Ukip. In fact I have – Ive lived with it since the 50s, when we still remembered the war. The forerunner of the Common Market was the Coal ...
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• In morte della guerra fredda

  
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  La guerra fredda è un luogo dello spirito, uno state of mind, un simulacro per guerrafondai, un inganno da strateghi. Nel giro di pochi giorni se ne sono andati Margaret Thatcher, Giulio Andreotti e Kenneth Waltz, tre protagonisti, a vario titolo e di differente caratura, delle vicende storiche del secolo scorso, e ...
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• Toyota Auris Hybrid: car review

  
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  Motoring can be a dirty business, but Toyotas new Auris Hybrid is doing all it can to keep it clean Price from £21,745 MPG up to 74.3 Top speed up to 112mph Its almost a year since the mother of all traffic jams entered the record books – Beijings 60-mile, 12-day monster. It spawned its own micro economy ...
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• Abuse of women and children – even nice guys are guilty of looking away

  
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  Suzanne Moore leads a phalanx of angry women with a lot to say about the flood of abuse cases, but men have signally failed to rise to the challenge Andrew Norfolk of the Times picks up the Orwell Prize for his brilliant reporting of the Rochdale grooming case, and all journalists can be proud of that. But what ...
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• The best bronzers

  
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  Raise the temperature with a hint of tan Its officially bronzer time! Worn pre-May the lights not right, but with the longer days and threat of sun, a swoosh of terracotta on white skin is the perfect garnish. It finishes a summer face in a pleasing way. And this year you dont have to stick to powders: Macs ...
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• Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review

  
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  The MP makes an absorbing if unconvincing attempt to recast the Irish statesman as an inspiration for modern conservatism Is this book about Edmund Burke or Jesse Norman? Should this review be about the "first modern conservative" or the man who might yet succeed David Cameron? I merely ask, as the pre-publicity for ...
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• Lawyers treatment of Oxford abuse ring victim prompts call for reform

  
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  Campaigners demand urgent shake-up of court procedure after seven barristers cross-examined a girl every day for three weeks in Oxford child-grooming case "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 ...
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• Made in Chelsea: Flower Show preview

  
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  A sneak preview of whats on offer at the 100th Chelsea Flower Show inspires excitement in Dans plantsman soul Chelsea is 100 years old, and in the swing of a gardening renaissance that probably matches the period in which it was born. The world has become a smaller place since 1913, but we have lost none of the ...
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• You cant be sure of seeing Shells AGM

  
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  If you couldnt travel to the Hague to protest, you could always attend the live link-up in London. But now you cant even do that Angry about the oil giants allegedly fixing the price of petrol for more than a decade ? Youll have a chance to harangue Shell – its offices were raided by European Union officials ...
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• Newsnight needs less of the night, more of the news

  
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  Hiring Ian Katz from the Guardian is brave, but something radical is needed to save a format that starts too late and runs too long The question – you might call it the £4m question after the Help for Heroes debacle – is whether Newsnight deserves to survive. Not exposing Savile, falsely exposing McAlpine, ...
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• I dont want children but worry my husband is getting broody

  
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  A young woman loves her lifestyle too much to want children, but worries that her husband feels differently. Mariella Frostrup says suffragettes did not fight for such shallow choices The dilemma I am 27 years old and have been very happily married for five years. We always talked about having a family once ...
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• Wappings pervasive paywall sets some ambitious goals for the Sun

  
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  Premiership clips and the best of the Bun for £104 a year – but with the everything-must-pay ethos comes a loss of visibility So now the paywall wars get serious. Subscribe £2 a week from the end of the summer and you can get the Sun online, on tablet or on smartphone with whats called a "suite" of various ...
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• Quantum leaps?

  
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  This morning’s Observer column . For a long time, the world looked upon quantum physicists with a kind of bemused affection. Sure, they might be wacky, but boy, were they smart! And western governments stumped up large quantities of dosh to enable them to build the experimental kit they needed for their ...
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