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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Even the once dazzling yellows, blues and reds on the flower-and-vine detailing on gate catches, chairs and pillars had faded or been washed away by rain....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Nevertheless, David Smith’s vision, on show at YSP, feels genuinely relevant....
...It rains like hell now.” The friend responded by sending Wittgenstein a sou’wester....
...Jorge Valdano, a former Real player and manager, once said: “Ronaldo is not a man. He is a herd.”...
...Long before Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island, travellers arriving in Britain would often find themselves perplexed by this rain-soaked corner of north-west Europe....
...I love people-watching in the rain here....
...Only on their very last notes did the rain suddenly fall....
...(NYT) Finance v tech The chief executive of Singaporean lender DBS, Piyush Gupta, said his biggest rivals are not other banks but Chinese tech groups such as Tencent and Ant Financial....
...Along the way they became global stars, a combination of their David v Goliath adventure and their supporters’ fearsome Viking-style chanting....
...The cancellation is particularly embarrassing for Manchester City, which Mr Xi visited in October, posing for a selfie with Sergio Aguero, the Argentine striker, and David Cameron, then the UK prime minister...
...“Now that the referendum date has been set, some investment decisions have been put on hold by some firms,” said Rain Newton-Smith, director of economics at the CBI employers group....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...It started to rain and the road surface was treacherous. You are at nearly 4,000m and it is impossible to breathe. I crossed the col alone and descended towards Manizales....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College More pessimistic than 12 months ago I am more pessimistic despite the most recent data being better than many including me expected....
...A chunk hereso follows, with our emphasis, but it’s a v good summary....
...Additional reporting by David Sheppard...
...Main photograph: David Franco Slideshow photographs: Felix Friedmann; Fernando Etulain...
...When David Beckham gently kicked him during England v Argentina at the World Cup in 1998, Simeone played dead, Beckham was sent off and England lost....
.../ From Thomas V Czarnowski Mysterious workings of German postal service / From Indermohan Virk An expensive luxury whose day is over / From Jan Manning...
...It felt like being inside the cinematic David Bowie songs that I played incessantly, with images of ice-cream parlours in the rain, conjured up in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust album (the back cover...
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