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...Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded as high as $92 a barrel on Friday after breaking above $90/b last week for the first time since October....
...“The rules are mindful of the importance of choice to drivers and preserve their ability to choose the vehicle that’s right for them,” said John Bozzella, chief executive of the alliance....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...Charles I was beheaded in 1649; the House of Hanover was dogged by sex scandals; George III lost his mind and he also lost America, which wasn’t terribly popular....
...Byrd: The Golden Renaissance Stile Antico This year marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, a leading composer of the English Renaissance....
...Sunak quickly moved in with a plan B, but will it work? The FT’s William Wallis has been following the case. Hello, William. William WallisHello, Lucy....
...Berlinde de Bruyckere’s City of Refuge III, textural sculptures of fallen angels, tragic yet redemptive, perfectly suits its setting, San Giorgio Maggiore’s chapel and monastery — a refuge of peace....
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...A quarter of a century later, in 1689, William III, representing himself and Queen Mary as anti-absolutists, brought members of the House of Commons into the Abbey by way of demonstrating that his would...
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...Before the coronation of King Charles III, the leader of the UK’s republican campaign group, Graham Smith, had rarely featured beyond the fringes of the media....
...John Kerry, the US climate envoy, filmed the wooden and gold state coach on his smartphone. By early afternoon, Charles III was smiling down at crowds from a Buckingham Palace balcony....
...Additional reporting by Amanda Chu in New York and Aime Williams in Dubai...
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...Long before that, medical papyri show that the ancient Egyptians were working on an elixir of eternal youth (mummification was merely Plan B)....
...of the European Parliament Michael GahlerMember of the European Parliament Amb Christoph HeusgenChairman of the Munich Security Conference, Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN 2017-21 Amb John...
...A further item — Roxanna Panufnik’s Coronation Sanctus — harked back to the coronation of King Charles III in May....
...Given how enduring the list is, my money is on the future William V finding the attrition rate among the UK top 10 still remaining low by the time he succeeds his father Charles III....
...John Warren, who advises the King and Queen on their horseracing interests, insists the royals remain dedicated to the sport. “The King understands the bigger picture....
...The ancient ceremonials and military marches that attended the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday gave way to parties and events across Britain, as the UK enjoyed a special Bank Holiday weekend....
...While William Caxton was setting up his printing press in London, Lodewyk van Bercken of Antwerp was cutting the city’s first major diamond, a whopper of 137 carats for the bling-loving Duke of Burgundy,...
...In 1694, the Bank of England was founded to help William III finance war with France....
...He believes Russian output is down 350,000 b/d since February....
...Alongside is William Croft’s The Lord is a Sun and a Shield, composed for the coronation of George I in 1714....
...Should the board of Peloton have challenged John Foley, the flamboyant founder of the company earlier and harder, before he resigned as executive chairman last September?...
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