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Among graves, Dutch teens build bridges between communities

AMSTERDAM, Jan Hennop- On a chilly Sunday morning, a group of Dutch teenagers gather in an overgrown patch of land in east Amsterdam to work on a unique project: cleaning up a 300-year-old...

Japanese chocolate: rising star in Land of Rising Sun

PARIS, Sandra Lacut- Move over azuki and sweet sticky rice. While Japanese pastry chefs may have started using cocoa a few centuries after the West, this once foreign flavour has captivated Japan's...

'World's best restaurant' elBulli closes

ROSES, Daniel Silva- elBulli, the beachside Spanish restaurant repeatedly crowned the world's best, closed Saturday after pushing the boundaries of cuisine for over two decades under acclaimed chef...

Cuisine to excite the mind, as well as the palate

NEW YORK, Mariano Andrade- There is cuisine which aims to excite the palate, and cuisine to please the eye. Argentine neurologist-turned-chef Miguel Sanchez Romera, however, has another...

Royal wedding fever steps up with a month to go

LONDON- With a month to go before Prince William and Kate Middleton marry, excitement about Britain's biggest royal wedding for 30 years is building as details emerge, although the dress remains a...

US math geeks fete Pi Day

WASHINGTON- Mathematics geeks turned irrational as they celebrated Pi Day Monday, the day of the year which represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi -- 3.14. Pi Day was...

British baker whips up royal wedding tribute

LONDON- A British baker has cooked up a unique tribute to Prince William and Kate Middleton after spending 80 hours creating a cake bearing a likeness of the soon-to-be-married couple. Michelle...

Board games cafes offer web break in China

BEIJING, Fran Wang- Jia Han was a web junkie who used to while away entire days in Internet cafes, but the 21-year-old university student says he has now found a healthier and more social pastime --...

Love and money fuels global Valentine Day ardour

BANGKOK- Love swept around the world Monday as the amorous mixed traditional chocolates and roses with new and more determined ways to demonstrate their ardour on Valentine's Day. Seven enchanted...

No humbug: Britain declares end to 'war on Christmas'

LONDON- A British minister declared the "war on Christmas" over Saturday, urging local authorities to stop avoiding the festival's Christian basis. "We should actively celebrate the Christian...
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