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...Recent Bank of England data showed that mortgage approvals rose more than expected in February to a 17-month peak....
...cardigan, €436.11, cettire.com Los Vasos De Agua handpainted glass Portofino Stripe carafe, £150, abask.com George Nelson Associates leather Marshmallow sofa, £7,215, 1stdibs.com Missoni cotton jumper, £430...
...The average house price fell 1 per cent month on month in March, down to £288,430 from February, when UK house prices hit a 16-month high of £291,338....
...The Baltimore-based group said its adjusted diluted earnings per share were $2.17 in the third quarter, about 23 per cent higher than Wall Street estimates of $1.77 and 17 per cent more than the same quarter...
...Maison Margiela wool-mix “bird-peck” top, £990 Jil Sander wool cape, £1,430, net-a-porter.com...
...Double from DKr1,430 (about £173)....
...Man Mannequin Man works in a fashion-adjacent industry, lives by Kate Moss’s mantra “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”, and loves nothing more than to swoosh his coat around his frame as he walks 1.5mph...
...The number of workers has recovered to 1,000, according to Cancelloni....
...Margaret Howell poplin shirt, £335, and silk tie, £95 Rajpreet Sandhu, 22, a law student, wears Louis Vuitton wool and llama-hair coat, £3,500, wool padded waistcoat, £1,600, cotton knit top, £430, wool...
...The moves helped to drag the broader high-yield bond market to its worst level in 17 months....
...According to The World of Stonehenge, an exhibition at the British Museum (until 17 July) presenting the site through the prism of more than 430 contemporaneous objects drawn from regional museums across...
...A figure less than 1 means that the epidemic curve is flattening, while a number higher than 1 implies the virus is spreading....
...Hospital admissions are down by two-thirds, she added, with about 1,430 people being treated daily....
...As of this week, 90 per cent of coronavirus cases in the country are the B.1.1.7 variant, which first emerged in the UK....
...The company raised £1.5bn with the share sale, including gross proceeds of £1bn for investment and expansion....
...The company posted a half-year profit before tax of £430.2m, up 1.7 per cent, for the six months ended December as weaker operating margins offset record completions....
...The continent, which has 17 per cent of the world’s population, has recorded 33,430 deaths from Covid-19, or about 3.5 per cent of the global total....
...Indonesia is just 1.6 per cent, the lowest level since 2009....
...On April 17, authorities announced that the pandemic was under control — less than six weeks after Germany’s first deaths from Covid-19....
...In France, where cannabis is illegal, 48 per cent of 17-year-olds in 2014 admitted to trying it, up from 21 per cent in 1993, writes pollster Jérôme Fourquet in L’archipel français (2019)....
...Who Christie’s International Real Estate, tel +31 20 26 10 430 Casa-Studio Mastroianni, Turin, Italy, €1.85m Where On a hill near Cavoretto, just outside Turin in northern Italy....
...A total of 14 bankers and 12 executives earned more than €10m in the country, with the leading investment banker making €17.8m and the top-earning executive earning €17.2m....
...One of south-east Asia’s last remaining evergreen woodlands, Prey Lang’s 430,000 hectares sprawl across four Cambodian provinces....
...More than 60 per cent of the rural population lives in poverty, and nearly one in four living in the countryside gets by on less than $1 a day, according to official data....
...Excavations in the Rising Star cave system, about 30 miles north-west of Johannesburg, uncovered more than 1,500 fossils from at least 18 individuals, infants to adults, showing a unique blend of primitive...
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