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Beyond Noma: What’s really choking California restaurants

Noma’s highly anticipated $1,500-per-head tasting menu in LA would have been controversial under any circumstances.  But when it is being hosted by a chef facing scrutiny over abusive kitchen practices, a backlash was inevitable.  What’s ironic, though, is that much of the outrage is coming from the same elite food world that helped build a...

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Iran war live updates: Regime issues threat against protesters; US ‘destroyed’ mine laying ships near strait of Hormuz

Iran’s police chief says protesters will be treated as ‘enemies’ and that security forces remain stationed in the streets

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© Photograph: Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images

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Geno Smith and Jets are match made in desperation

This isn’t Mark Messier returning to the Rangers after three seasons in Vancouver. It isn’t Tom Seaver returning to the Mets for one season following six seasons in Cincinnati. It isn’t Andy Pettitte returning to the Yankees to finish his career following three seasons in Houston. It isn’t Darrelle Revis returning to the Jets to...

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‘My lovely distraction’: live stream of kākāpō – world’s fattest parrot – and her chicks captivates New Zealand

More than 100,000 people have tuned in to watch ‘kākāpō cam’, which captures a rare flightless bird sleeping, tidying her nest and fighting off intruders

On an island in New Zealand’s remote southern fjords, one of the world’s strangest and rarest parrots – the kākāpō – is caring for her tiny chick as fans from across the globe watch on.

Through the black and white lens of a hidden camera, a fluffy orb with a kazoo-like squeak jostles for food from its mother’s beak. The mother, Rakiura, is attentive – scooping her chick under her large green wings, fending off an intruding bird, and periodically tidying her nest.

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© Photograph: Andrew Digby

© Photograph: Andrew Digby

© Photograph: Andrew Digby

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