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DIVERSIONS
| Angry birds — avian invasion brings real-life horror to city |
| Millions of birds have descen-ded on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film, The Birds. |
| Smoking gun |
| David Baldacci’s latest page turner, TheForgotten, is an adrenalin-fuelled tale, but not without its share of kinks |
| Best back-in-time |
| Experience time travel while enjoying preserved pleasures that transport you back decades, or even centuries |
| A Valiant Effort |
| Two comics loving Indian-American entrepreneurs — Jason Kothari and Dinesh Shamdasani — acquire the struggling Valiant brand and are all set to resurrect some of the world’s favourite lesser known superheroes |
| Friendship over fashion |
| Rachel Roy was at Vera Wang’s NY Fashion Week show, in a choice seat next to John Legend. Tory Burch regularly attends the shows of Narciso Rodriguez and Proenza Schouler. Diane von Furstenberg always makes room for Oscar de la Renta, and Tommy Hilfiger took in Belstaff. |
| Fishy behaviour in mating |
| When it comes to mating, guppies treasure their ugly friends — because they look so good by comparison. |
| Two of a kind |
| The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes is a story of two women, living in different eras but joined in spirit |
| Kicking off differently |
| English soccer player Frank Lampard is using his experiences on the field and at home with his own family to carve out a new career — writing children’s books. |
| Island in, island out |
| Top 10 private-island escapes where you can be king of the world, party, hide out, romance, dive, glamp it up, escape… and always indulge! |
| Tunes of change |
| The days of cassettes, VCRs and mini-discs are long gone, but I bet many of us — even the younger generations — remember when these entertainment vehicles were the hottest things around. |
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