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Shane Todd on a dragon boat in Singapore during an outing with friends and colleagues in 2011

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Death in Singapore

US electronics engineer Shane Todd was found hanging in his Singapore apartment

Food & drink

Fifty shades of grape

©Ingram Pinn

‘This obsessive’s interest in unusual grape varieties is so marked that he prefers to remain anonymous’

– Jancis Robinson

Recipe: mussels and chips

©Andy Sewell

‘It is a leisurely occupation, nibbling a mussel, dipping a chip in the mayonnaise and then a mussel again...’

– Rowley Leigh

©Paolo Woods 7:46pm

Radio Haiti

You hear it playing in shops, in the street, in the country’s most remote areas. Ninety-seven per cent of Haitians own a radio – and everyone from evangelists to voodoo priestesses gets a go on the air. Paolo Woods photographs the DJs - and their audience - in action in the town of Les Cayes

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An American in Oslo

Neckties, identity and the dilemmas of the outsider - what happens when a New Englander moves to his wife’s native country?

Alvaro Pérez made hundreds of uniforms a month for Colombia’s Farc guerrillas

©Stephen Ferry 7:45pm

‘I was Farc’s official tailor’

Alvaro Pérez made hundreds of uniforms a month for Colombia’s rebel guerrillas

©Robert Moore From PURSUITS 7:45pm

A walk with the FT: The Bratton Camp and Westbury route

Jeremy Taylor squelches his way through history in Wiltshire, from an Iron Age camp to a modern military range, under the gaze of an ancient white horse

Gillian Tett

©Shonagh Rae

Are library books on borrowed time?

Weekend Magazine Columnists

Robert Shrimsley Horses for (main) courses
Simon Kuper Carry on panicking
Paris baker Eggs can’t be beaten
Nicholas Lander J Sheekey, London
The Shrink & The Sage Should I be grateful?

©Rex Features 5:08pm

The Inventory: Eric Idle

‘I’ll jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy,’ says the former Monty Python comedian

One of Dimbleby's "uncomplicated but quirky" collections

From FOOD & DRINK 7:46pm

The history cook: The Sainsbury Cookbooks

Did the foodie revolution start here? Launched in the 1970s by the supermarket chain, these books introduced ‘exotic’ ingredients to the public

From FOOD & DRINK 7:46pm

Five of the best: London bakeries

Artisan bread-makers are on the rise in the capital – and these five are the pick of the batch

Darwin’s origin of the pigeon

A new study unravels the genetics of the bird species, which were bred by the English naturalist for his research into evolution

From PURSUITS 7:45pm

Highlights

US electronics engineer Shane Todd was found hanging in his Singapore apartment

You hear it playing in shops, in the street, in the country’s most remote areas. Ninety-seven per cent of Haitians own a radio – and everyone from evangelists to voodoo priestesses gets a go on the air. Paolo Woods photographs the DJs - and their audience - in action in the town of Les Cayes

Neckties, identity and the dilemmas of the outsider - what happens when a New Englander moves to his wife’s native country?

Alvaro Pérez made hundreds of uniforms a month for Colombia’s rebel guerrillas

Jeremy Taylor squelches his way through history in Wiltshire, from an Iron Age camp to a modern military range, under the gaze of an ancient white horse

‘I’ll jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy,’ says the former Monty Python comedian

Did the foodie revolution start here? Launched in the 1970s by the supermarket chain, these books introduced ‘exotic’ ingredients to the public

Artisan bread-makers are on the rise in the capital – and these five are the pick of the batch

A new study unravels the genetics of the bird species, which were bred by the English naturalist for his research into evolution

Talking gloves, weather tracking apps and a 3D printer that turns consumers into manufacturers

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