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  1 Killed, Several Injured After Shooting In Washington: Report

  In yet another grim incident, one person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting in the Seattle suburb of Renton early Saturday morning, police said.

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  Woman Who Died At 105 Left Behind $10 Million For Community Colleges

  Money was scarce when Eva Gordon graduated from her Oregon high school, and attending college was not an option. But her fortune, amassed over decades of investing what little money she could scrape from her paychecks, will enable students at 17 community colleges to fulfill the dream that she had to forgo.

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  Four Websites That Let You Rent Furniture and Home Electronics in India

  Renting furniture or appliances online allows you to get all essential things at home quickly. These sites make the process easy.

• Sous Vide: The Chefs' Secret Coming to Your Kitchen

  Chefs have been slow-cooking vacuum-packed food in water baths for years. Now technological advances mean the home cook can use 'sous vide' too. Just don't call it 'boil in the bag'The history of food is littered with gadgets. Some could have taken off...

• Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads

  A new exhibition highlights chefs' ideas about avoiding waste, including dishes such as mackerel scratchings and bin-end pilaffWaste is the most pressing problem in modern food (unless you don't have enough of it - but that's another post). Home cooks...

• Sugar: a guide to the sweet stuff in all its forms

  Can you enjoy sweet food and drink without overloading on calories, and is honey really better for you than refined white sugar? Learn how to tell one sweetener from another with our essential guideSugar is sugar, most science now agrees: a simple carbohydrate...

• Sugar is bad for us and we should all stop eating it - right?

  With Christmas upon us, and the inevitable detox afterwards, Sarah Wilson and Alex Renton thrash out the sugar questionSarah Wilson, broadcaster and author of I Quit Sugar I've been asked to share why I reckon you should quit sugar. By way of a pithy...

• The best garlic varieties: a guide

  Lidl is selling a new variety of garlic, with easy-to-peel cloves. Is it worth buying - and if not, which is the best variety for you?"Lazy garlic" - what will they think of next? Lidl is selling garlic heads, each about half the size of normal, but...

• The Chefs Who Photograph Their 'Artworks' for Posterity

  Chefs often see themselves as great artists - but their creations are destroyed almost as soon as they're created. Now an art project seeks to immortalise their workPity the chefs with artistic pretensions. Not least because their creations live just...

• Why Cheap Meats Costs the Earth

  From breeding animals that feel no pain to cruelty in the slaughterhouse - our demand for meat poses huge moral dilemmas, says Alex Renton in this edited extract from his new book.In the rich world, each of us consumes or uses 30 or more animals a year...

• Salt: Chefs are Still Laying it on Thick

  Government advice is that you should use just half a pinch of salt a day. But the only people who appear to pay any attention to this are those with cooking shows on TVCooking telly is full of frauds. Sit and watch with anyone who's worn chef's whites...

• Parents are Warned to Steer Clear of Sugar-Filled 'Healthy' Drinks

  Parents' efforts on healthy eating 'undermined' by marketing campaigns and lack of government interest.Read Alex Renton's report on sugary drinks.Nutritionists and health campaigners are calling on parents to avoid supposedly "healthy" fruit drinks during...

• Expand Your Rice Repertoire

  It's the staple food of almost half the world's population, yet for most Brits it comes in just two types.We've used rice in Britain since the middle ages: our ancestors boiled it in milk with sugar, cinnamon and almonds (imported from Italy, rice cost...

• What's For Dinner in 2035?

  Alex Renton imagines what two families - one rich, the other hard-up - might be eating in the future.Predicting what we will eat in Britain in 2035 comes down to how gloomy you are about the future. Will stagnant growth have pushed us down the list of...