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...Phantom memorabilia is hugely popular: Gerard Butler’s mask in the film adaptation sold at specialist entertainment auction house Propstore in 2022 for £3,750, well over a top estimate of £800....
...The writer is former head of the UK’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and a visiting professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London The deadly blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza reminded...
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...In 2020, The Ritz passed from the Barclay Brothers to Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri; the Sultan of Brunei bought the Dorchester in 1985; The Savoy is owned by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed...
...They face the Miami Heat, an eight-seed in the East that nearly lost the play-in tournament and who, on the backs of superhuman franchise star Jimmy Butler and a roster of mostly undrafted workmen, have...
...by Judith Butler (Allen Lane/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux)An argument for how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world from one of the leading authorities on the subject....
...More recently, distinctive exhibitions have spanned a freewheeling visual essay on Joan Didion, curated by writer Hilton Als with the Hammer’s chief curator Connie Butler, and a gem of an exhibition, Picasso...
...Knowles names them by archetype: Butler, Soviet, Banker, Bags (as in Prada), Sturgeon, Blazer and many more....
...Final Buzzer You may have noticed at Scoreboard that we like nothing more than videos of charismatic NBA star Jimmy Butler, out in the real world....
...City workers at M restaurant in Threadneedle Street, in the heart of London’s financial district, drank the bar dry of Veuve Clicquot champagne this week as they toasted the return of al fresco dining after...
...John Butler of the World Shipping Council says international transportation “is operating beyond full capacity”. “It’s not just about what’s going on on the water, it’s on land too....
...“Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram . . . are operating and taking advantage of governments being distracted by Covid measures,” Ed Butler, a former commander of UK forces in Afghanistan, told reporters last month....
...They created a massively exaggerated fear of al-Qaeda as a hidden “global network” that was planning to destroy “western civilisation”, and a fear of weapons of mass destruction hidden in the desert....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...The chairmanship of the company has been handed to Yasir al-Rumayyan, who lacks oil experience but is head of the sovereign wealth fund....
...The new alliance between Moscow and Riyadh renews a link established in 1926 when the Soviet Union was the first foreign power to recognise Abdul Aziz al-Saud, father of the current king, as the ruler of...
The economic case for the strategy is strong but it could have regional implications
...Staff are dressed as butlers and housekeepers, which puts at ease those who were raised by servants but may have a very different effect on everyone else....
...Qatar is home to a major US air base and 10,000 US servicemen at Al Udeid....
While the Saudis have US support, the kingdom will boost production
...In Me, it’s the love between John and the writer of his lyrics, Bernie Taupin; in Afternoons With the Blinds Down, it’s that between Anderson and Suede’s original guitarist, Bernard Butler; in Face It, it...
...Kuwait’s longstanding association with the west and the fact it hosts a number of US bases has provoked terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda and other groups....
...Al Jazeera television commented that the drone strikes showed a “new level of sophistication” for the Houthis....
...One hope, according to Iraqi friends, is that if Haider Al-Abadi wins a second term as prime minister he might impose better governance after parliamentary elections on May 12....
...Khalid al Falih, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, replied: “We are taking it easy”....
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