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DIVERSIONS
| P.J. Parrish returns to Louis Kincaid novels |
| Fictional detective Louis Kincaid is back and tangled in yet another eerie murder, as the sister duo behind the best-selling mystery novelist P.J. Parrish bring back the private investigator after a three-year hiatus in their latest novel Heart of Ice. |
| Phnom Penh, the pearl |
| The Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh is rapidly modernising. |
| In conversation with Laila Ali |
| After hanging up her boxing gloves with a cool 24-0 record to her name, Laila ‘she bee stingin’ Ali raises the bar in her toughest challenge yet — encouraging a nation to become champions of fitness. Khaleej Times’ Kelly Clarke faces off with the inspirational woman — outside the ring |
| Man of the people |
| Atiq Juma Nasib, Senior Director of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, reminisces about growing up in a nascent UAE, and taking the stepping stones to success |
| Eat your swords |
| Steel is on the menu at sword swallowers’ Hollywood sideshow |
| My, my, my, Delilah |
| Jodi Picoult, known to tackle plain truths in her books, goes through the looking glass in Between the Lines, with co-author Samantha Van Leer |
| Catch the cereal crunch |
| Cereal flavours increasingly moving out of the box — get ready to sample it in ice cream and lip balm |
| Kipling poems discovered |
| AN INVESTIGATION BY a US academic has uncovered 50 unpublished poems by British writer Rudyard Kipling in locations including a New York house and the papers of a former cruise-line owner, it was revealed this week. |
| Zippy in Mexico |
| Get laid back and lost in time, in the beach town of Zipolite in beauteous Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Prize takeaway |
| Even Oscar “losers” get to go home with $45,000 gift bags |
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