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WHEN A TRADITIONAL COOKING STOVE LEFT HER toddler with life-threatening burns, Charlot Magayi turned grief into resolve. From Nairobi’s Mukuru slum, she set out to reinvent the stove, and in doing so

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In a candid chat ahead of the release of his memoir We Did OK, Kid , actor, artist and composer Sir Anthony Hopkins reveals how his tough childhood and long battle with alcoholism formed the contented, joyful man he is today

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This weaponised, gel-like substance is an incendiary that burns and adheres to surfaces