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...In Toye’s account, Attlee’s foreign policy record is more mixed....
...“And then, you know, the whole world of visas and green cards and passports, it’s complicated,” he continued....
...People wanted to own a record of a great event. Then the explosion of injection-moulded mugs took off after world war two, which made them incredibly cheap to produce.” Lush is a serious collector....
...Although fictional, the plane evokes Lockheed Martin’s SR-71, which in the 1960s set a speed record for a piloted jet aircraft of Mach 3.2, or 2,455mph....
...The first photographer in the 60-year history of the Pirelli calendar to shoot it three times – in 1996, 2002 and 2017 – Lindbergh has been shown in museums around the world including the V&A, Centre Pompidou...
...Meanwhile, England over-50s have a golden chance in the world senior teams which began on Monday at Acqui Terme, Italy....
...But it shows how much the horses are limited by the heat. Langley says today was one of the toughest races she’s run....
...In Berlin, senior officials mutter darkly and off the record about various scenarios....
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...Second, China’s trade surpluses would likely stay at record levels to the benefit of the renminbi....
...One secret is to hothouse the very best talents for age, as the former USSR did in the 1930s and England, despite limited resources, did in the 1970s....
...Russian cyber attackers accessed Ukraine’s vote-counting system on the eve of general elections in 2014, destroying electronic records and leaving ballots to be counted by hand....
...In November, gasoline produced using IGTL’s technology was used by the Royal Air Force to power what the Guinness Book of Records recorded as the world’s first successful flight using only synthetic fuel...
...Adenovirus-based vaccines, such as Gamaleya’s Sputnik V, Oxford-AstraZeneca’s and Johnson & Johnson’s, for example, are limited by how much information they can hold and what the vaccines can be instructed...
...Thank goodness the world still holds marvels.” Prices start at £250,000. Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...Indian drug regulators on Monday granted emergency approval to Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, as daily confirmed Covid-19 infections hit a record high of 185,000....
...Discover the crazy world of “carchitecture”....
...And also from just across the corridor here in London, we're joined by Anne-Sylvaine Cassany, who's world news editor of the Financial Times....
...The brand began the journey that would take it to its current status as one of the world’s defining luxury brands....
...Bureaucracy, clunky enrolment processes and inadequate digitalisation of health records have hampered the rollout....
...“The deep-V recovery we saw in the second half of 2020 has continued into 2021, with sales activity continuing to strengthen across all territories,” said Simon Cleaver, CloudCall CEO....
...Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to clean up India’s corporate and financial system have had limited success....
...The bulk of Sinopharm’s overseas orders have been negotiated directly with countries in the developing world, where its vaccines face intense competition from the likes of Russia’s Sputnik V and Oxford/AstraZeneca...
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
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