Hints and tips:
...That could be comedy gold, especially in the hands of seasoned writer Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly), director Sean Foley, and well-known comic actors including Al Murray, Mel Giedroyc and Neil Morrissey...
...Gassan Al-Kibsi, chair of McKinsey’s Middle East business, and Homayoun Hatami, former managing partner in France, round out the list....
...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...Nasrallah delivered his threat in a televised speech just 24 hours after Saleh al-Arouri, Hamas’s deputy political leader, died in an explosion in Beirut....
...Here’s (award-winning investigative reporter) Antonia Cundy’s recommendation: “Heidi Blake’s story about Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s daughters and their attempts to escape him is a remarkable...
...Job moves Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan has been appointed chair of the $790bn Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in a signal of his expanding influence....
...The French club announced it would tour the Gulf later this month, which will include a friendly in Riyadh against an All-Star XI put together with players from Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr and crosstown rival Al-Hilal...
...Reach them at stephen.foley@ft.com and joe.miller@ft.com....
...This is just another cheque of that size,” the chair of the Saudi National Bank told the FT’s Samer Al-Atrush, referring to the sum that Michael Klein returned home with after the lender purchased a near...
...Some were completely certain that we are, as reader Todd Foley put it, “on the precipice of a stagflation tsunami”. Others thought it unlikely....
...In 2014 Isis murdered James Foley, a US reporter with whom Higgins had been in contact. Pictures of Foley’s decapitated body surfaced on Twitter....
...Among the alleged victims of Mr Kotey and Mr Elsheikh were four American citizens — Jim Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller....
...Spacs struck five mergers totalling more than $15bn, led by a $7.3bn deal between Alight, a cloud HR-benefits provider controlled by Blackstone, with a vehicle launched by the US billionaire Bill Foley....
...“The candidate can’t just [create a crisis] by himself,” Mr Foley said....
...Perhaps the most famous example of social impact entertainment in documentary form is An Inconvenient Truth, in which vice-president Al Gore skewered climate change deniers and presented audiences with a...
...Edward Al-Hussainy, a senior interest rates and currency analyst at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, said he was not worried about the prospect of a forthcoming ratings downgrade for Pemex, because the...
...The Gaddafi relative is not named in the complaint, but has been identified in separate court proceedings as Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, once regarded as his father’s heir apparent....
...Nineteen hijackers died in the attack, later claimed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, which led directly to the US war in Afghanistan and indirectly to the invasion of Iraq....
...“The times when minimum volatility strategies perform the worst is when there is no risk of Britain leaving the EU, no refugee crisis in Europe, Greece is all good, there is no Isis, no al-Qaeda, oil is...
...Google’s Eric Schmidt foresaw the end of road traffic deaths in a world of driverless cars; Al Gore highlighted soaring investment in renewable energy; biochemist Jennifer Doudna said disease could be stopped...
...And Al Gore, the former US vice-president, said companies can “no longer ignore the sustainability revolution”....
...He refused to denounce the execution of journalist James Foley by Mohammed Emwazi in Syria two years ago, telling the jury: “If you took an objective view there are circumstances where someone could be punished...
...Almost 10 years since the premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, the man who financed Al Gore’s film is still advocating the power of storytelling to change the world....
...stephen.foley@ft.com...
...Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud, the Saudi investor, exemplifies a more traditional philanthropy model....
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