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...Chart of the day The US economy expanded by an annualised rate of 4.9 per cent in the third quarter, a blistering pace that beat forecasts....
...Its ruins are now owned by Cadw (the Welsh environmental service) and the place is rich in legend: “Men of Harlech”, about the seven-year siege of the 1460s, is considered the unofficial Welsh anthem....
...Related news: The German government has taken control of three refineries owned by Russian oil company Rosneft, in a major escalation of the energy war between Moscow and the west. 4....
...Owned by a Japanese shipbuilder and operated by a Taiwanese shipping company, the Ever Given container ship captured the hearts and memes of the internet last year when it ran aground in the Suez Canal....
...In 1930 the average US family spent 24.3 per cent of its income on food. By 2007 that number had fallen to 9.8 per cent....
...If that can happen in the land of Montrachet, Yquem and Haut-Brion Blanc, nowhere is beyond the reach of the pale pink tide....
...“The machines are often too difficult to operate for local employees,” says Chen Donghua, a shoe factory manager at the Lee Group, a manufacturer owned by Hong Kong entrepreneurs....
...Bahia Vik, 11 bungalows set on 10 acres of private coastal land....
...Why Dramatically perched on a clifftop overlooking the rugged coastline and surrounded by 165 acres of land, the castle is a refuge from the buzz of popular Plettenberg Bay....
...At the uppermost end of the market — where a detached villa backing on to Holland Park can sell for £45m — prices fell 5.9 per cent in 2016, according to Land Registry data....
...This year’s edition has had a busy run-up: the fair was acquired by Demand Media in September, and has already been rebranded as an arm of Saatchi Art, also owned by the company....
...A new registry of foreign-owned agricultural land goes public this year....
...University College London plans to open the first part of its new campus here by 2020; it will eventually stretch over 11 acres of land....
...Alive: New and Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Willis, NYRB Poets, RRP£9.99/$14 The US poet has a gift for achieving poignancy through juxtaposition and a deceptively light touch....
...There was sniping recently when Grey knocked down a house he owns – once briefly owned by Frank Sinatra; a short Italian Vogue video about his wife Cassandra’s fashion career went viral....
...Queen Elizabeth’s rental property empire has survived the peaks and troughs of the market to return a 9,200 per cent increase in revenues during her 60-year reign, more than three times the rate of inflation...
...Complex and thought-provoking, Lee’s dishes make light work of classic techniques, injecting Asian flavours into immaculate dishes. (Lee even designs the plates and bowls himself.)...
...“The Truman Show was the best thing that could have happened to land values in Seaside,” says Andrés Duany who, with his partner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, was the young Miami architect hired to design Seaside...
...The Carbon Footprint of Everything, by Mike Berners-Lee, Profile RRP£8.99 The most practical guide so far for people wanting to reduce their carbon footprint....
...For readers of eight or nine and up. Uncle By JP Martin New York Review £9.99, 224 pages Reprint of the year....
...ART Compiled by Jackie Wullschlager Klimt Edited by Alfred Weidinger Prestel £89, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £71.20 Klimt, painter of gilt-layered excess, has found his monument in this lavish, cased...
...Together, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than half of the employment (58.9 per cent) and turnover (51.9 per cent) of all businesses....
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