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Oyakodon - literally, the parent (chicken) and child (egg)

Oyakodon

Serves 4

They think it's all ova: Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them

Exciting flavours: Vietnamese aubergine with minced pork

Vietnamese aubergine with minced pork

Serves 4

American face of casual racism, anti-Semitism and sexism laid bare in US Big Brother

White housemate flipped black contestant's mattress over before goading her saying 'What you gon' do, girl?'

Per Mertesacker of Arsenal FC poses dressed as a Samurai Warrior in the Urawa Royal Pines Hotel in Japan

In pictures: Arsenal players dress up as Samurai Warriors and make sushi on pre-season tour in Japan

Lukas Podolski and Per Mertesacker wield swords on pre-season tour

The Business Matrix: Wednesday 24 July 2013

Swatch clocks up rise in profits

Boost for women in boardroom as companies seek fresh skills

More first-timers and more women are joining the upper ranks of Britain’s biggest companies, offering fresh evidence that the make-up of blue-chip boardrooms is changing for good.

Contrast of textures and flavours: Scallops with avocado, apple and a sweet miso dressing

Would you shell out for a snail facial?

A face full of snails might not be your average person's idea of an expensive salon treatment, but that's just what Japan's high society have been shelling out for lately - at a cost of £65 for a five minute session.

Aubergine and tofu laksa

Aubergine and tofu laksa

Serves 4

Braised pork mince and tofu

Braised pork mince and tofu

Serves 4

Martha-Renée Kolleh, runs her Yeanon Cafe in the market square in the old West Yorkshire mill town of Ossett

Extraordinary life of the café owner who took on the racists

Martha-Renee Kolleh overcame a tragic upbringing in her native Liberia to build a life here. No wonder she had the courage to stand up to prejudice

Tim Key: ‘I’ve framed CD sleeves, playing cards, crisp packets – even my Oyster card’

Recently, I had a fantastic, almost spiritual, experience with a slaphead in a framing shop. I love watching people work at the best of times, but there was something really amazing about watching this bald craftsman getting his hands on a print and thumbing it into a stained-cherry-wood rectangle. It was quite emotional.

US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir

Mr Hung was stunned that someone had kept his bones for so long, but happy that when the time comes, they will be buried with him

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