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Vegans who get enough protein in their diets usually still lack vital amino acids, new research shows.While most of the vegans studied “ate an adequate amount of total daily protein”, according to a team of nutritionists based at Massey University in New Zealand, “a significant proportion did not meet required levels of the amino acids lysine and leucine”.They analysed detailed, four-day food diaries kept by 193 long-term vegans living in New Zealand, using information from the United States Department of Agriculture and the New Zealand FoodFiles database to calculate participants’ intake of different amino acids from the different foods they ate.About three quarters of participants met daily total protein requirements. Only about half of them met daily requirements for lysine and leucine,...

East met West and often went for cocktails in Zagreb’s Hotel Esplanade.The most glamorous and storied hotel in the Balkans has just celebrated its 100th birthday and is still packing in the stars, from Shakira to David Beckham.Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev were both guests in its heyday, and a galaxy of Hollywood legends – from Elizabeth Taylor to Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock – crossed the Iron Curtain to hang out in its art deco bar.Others came to gamble in its casino – the only one allowed in Communist Yugoslavia at the time.The lobby of the Hotel Esplanade. It was built close to the Croatian capital’s main railway station to accommodate passengers on the Orient Express. Photo: AFPRobert Mitchum, Pierce Brosnan and Kate Beckinsale all starred in films shot in the...

He has been Joe Goldberg, the well-read manager of a New York bookstore.He has been Will Bettelheim, a worker at a trendy Los Angeles health food market.He has been Jonathan Moore, a literature professor at a London university.And he has been Goldberg again – but as a married man, a father and a budding philanthropist.No matter the name, he was the seemingly perfect significant other whose charming and considerate exterior hid a delusional, disturbed and dangerous sociopath who goes to extreme lengths – like killing nearly two dozen people – to insert himself into the lives of the women who became his obsession.Now Penn Badgley has shed all of those identities. His journey on the series You, now on Netflix, reached its conclusion with the release of the drama’s fifth and final season....

He is a dream in the kitchen – and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he has got moves like Jagger.Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since the 1830s, but nobody is perfect, right?Most people have heard of Napoleon Bonaparte, but not many are familiar – even in France – with the story of this chef who cooked for the French emperor and his contemporaries, rising from a poor kitchen boy to become a standard-bearer of French cuisine.Now a new Apple TV+ period drama, Carême, argues that he was the very first celebrity chef – there is even a Top Chef-style cooking contest in front of a panel of judges.For the vibe, think comedy drama series The Bear but set in postrevolutionary Paris. Carême even directs his staff at one point to say “Oui, chef”, and we could totally ...

A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical conditions.However, a new strain of the world’s favourite cereal developed by scientists in the drought-plagued South American country has generated hope that rice can be grown in seemingly inhospitable conditions.Using an innovative planting technique, Javier Munoz has been trying out the “Jaspe” strain created by experts at the Agricultural Research Institute’s (INIA) rice breeding programme. The INIA is part of the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.It is one of several research efforts worldwide to come up with less resource-hungry crops at a time of increased water scarcity in parts of the world because of global warming.A sign that reads “Historical Varieties” is...

Henry Golding revealed he has reconnected with several of his Crazy Rich Asians collaborators as the hit film, based on author Kevin Kwan’s book trilogy, gets a future on the small screen.Golding, who starred as affluent heartthrob Nick Young in the 2018 film, this week told the Today show on US television that he recently reunited with co-stars Awkwafina and Gemma Chan, on separate occasions, and discussed the series currently in development at Max.“Everyone is excited,” he said.The Snake Eyes and Another Simple Favour actor said he met Awkwafina “the other night” and “not too long ago” reconnected with Chan and Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim in London “to sort of discuss where we’re heading”.Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Constance Wu in a scene from the film Crazy Rich Asians. ...

South Korean films are absent from this year’s Cannes Film Festival for the first time in more than a decade, and observers say it highlights a brain drain plaguing the industry.According to the line-up released by the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13 to 24, no Korean films will be screened in its official selection.A short South Korean animated film, Glasses, directed by Jung Yoo-mi, will be screened as part of Critics Week, an event organised by the French Union of Film Critics that runs in parallel with the festival.It is first time since 2013 that no Korean movies have been included in the official selection. It is also the third year in a row that no Korean films will be screened in competition in Cannes.Director Park Chan-wook accepts the award for best director for Decis...

While my friends were scuba diving off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia last weekend, I hired a car and a driver and made a two-hour trip to the city of Kuala Terengganu.It was my first visit in more than 30 years, and only the third time I have set foot in “KT”, where my grandfather and his grandfather were born.The latter’s father – my great-great-great-grandfather – had made his way to KT from the district of Tongan, in the southern Chinese province of Fujian, sometime in the early 19th century.He probably married a local woman, or several, and for the next few generations, his descendants made their home in what would become a small coastal city.Today my only relations in KT – those that I know of anyway – are the descendants of my grandfather’s siblings and half-siblings. And I m...

Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke was only 24 when she suffered a stroke following a workout.Known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series, Clarke felt a severe headache, began vomiting and then collapsed in the bathroom of her gym.At the time, she was the definition of youthful fitness and certainly not the sort of person you would expect to have a stroke.Her type of stroke is known as a subarachnoid haemorrhage, caused by bleeding in the area between the brain and the tissues that cover it. It is often the result of a ruptured aneurysm – a ballooning section of a blood vessel with a fragile wall – as it was in Clarke’s case.Clarke suffered a second aneurysm two years after her first. Photo: Instagram/emilia_clarkeIt is less common than some type of strokes but no...

The much awaited release of Grand Theft Auto VI, the latest instalment of the popular video game series, has been postponed by several months to May 2026, its publisher says.The game was originally due to be released later this year, with a trailer having shown that it would be set in Miami-like Vice City and would feature a playable female protagonist for the first time.“We are very sorry that this is later than you expected,” Rockstar Games said in a statement.“With every game we have released, the goal has always been to try and exceed your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto VI is no exception,” it said.“We hope you understand that we need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve.”Its predecessor, GTA V, was released in 2013 and sold more than 200 millio...