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Gotta Save the Castle? Start a Podcast
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» Last month, Emma, Duchess of Rutland, sat in her drawing room and weighed the pros and cons of living over the shop. Specifically, Belvoir Castle, a stately and splendid pile perched on a wooded hilltop in the English countryside with more than 356 rooms and soaring neo-Gothic towers and turrets. It has been the site of the family seat since the 16th century.
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China's young avoid tying the knot
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» It has been a brutal three years for China's young adults. Their unemployment rate is soaring amid a wave of corporate layoffs. Draconian coronavirus restrictions are over, but not the sense of uncertainty about the future they created.
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Poland torn over Ukrainian refugees
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» In a rural village with fewer than 500 residents, strangers stand out. Even Anna Osinska, a 93-year-old villager with failing eyesight, noticed when people she did not recognise -- refugees from the war in Ukraine -- started appearing on the narrow street outside her kitchen window.
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Drugs to help quieten 'food noise'
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» Until she started taking the weight loss drug Wegovy, Staci Klemmer's days revolved around food. When she woke up, she plotted out what she would eat; as soon as she had lunch, she thought about dinner.
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The drug trade's gold rush state
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» A total of 210 tonnes of drugs seized in a single year, a record. At least 4,500 killings last year, also a record. Children recruited by gangs. Prisons as hubs for crime. Neighbourhoods consumed by criminal feuds. And all this chaos financed by powerful outsiders with deep pockets and lots of experience in the global drug business.
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Migrants a mixed blessing in crowded Ny
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» Around 7am one day last August, the first migrants sent to New York City by the governor of Texas arrived with little warning on a bus, and walked sleepily into their new lives.
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Colombia falls hard for cycling
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» The route up Las Palmas starts near the valley floor, but it doesn't stay there for long. It is 16 kilometres up to the summit, an arduous climb of roughly 1,036 vertical metres (3,40 feet), a journey of long rises and sharp turns, of straining muscles and heaving lungs.
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Tuna-obsessed Tunisia in a fish funk
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Perhaps you are one of the more than 5,000 subscribers to "Popping Tins," an email newsletter devoted exclusively to tinned seafood. Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.
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Famous Italian brand spreads to Manhattan
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» For decades, people in search of the best food in Rome have found their way into the arms of the Roscioli family. Atop a network of wine cellars between the ancient Jewish quarter and the Campo de' Fiori flower market, descendants of Marco and Franco Roscioli run four businesses, each outstanding in its field: a bread bakery, a pastry shop, a wine bar and a salumeria moonlighting as a restaurant that has become one of the most sought-after tables in the city.
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Dissident's secretive past comes to light
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» It wasn't as if Bei Zhenying didn't know that her husband was unusual, or even that he had some secrets.
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