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...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...Alejandro Giammattei, Guatemala’s president, said on Tuesday that the country would now receive 8m doses of Sputnik V, instead of the originally agreed 16m, and would buy the difference from western pharmaceutical...
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...A star-studded jury featuring Alejandro González Iñárritu, Elle Fanning and Yorgos Lanthimos is ready to ascend the red-carpeted stairway of the Palais des Festivals....
...the village of Yatta Starry, starry night The Milky Way is seen from a beach at Sardinia island, Italy Engerland England football fans celebrate after their team scored the first goal in the England v...
...Their inexperienced coach Alejandro Sabella may not have realised it, but he was appointed precisely for his willingness to obey Messi....
...Alejandro González Iñárritu, raffish director of last year’s winner Birdman, looks poised to take the top prize again with The Revenant; but this may still be the year of Spotlight and its homage to investigative...
...The V&A’s show on copying seemed a little disengaged; the Swiss pavilion, a solid cloud which visitors can climb into, manages to be both irrelevant and wonderful....
...Mature trees grow a few inches from the walls of his house; they even take a bite into the shape of it — one wall has a V-shaped indentation to make room for a red oak....
...There’s a reason “David v Goliath” has become the favoured Oscar narrative over the past 10 years: it exactly reproduces the contours of an industry that has itself bifurcated between studio spectacle and...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Pegaso, the 73-metre yacht of Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, a Mexican tycoon, is billed as exactly this kind of yacht. “Social enterprise is a big topic,” says Mr Redmayne....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...But Asia’s V-shaped recovery has helped them to report improved recent results, along with a host of smaller companies such as Asustek and HTC, the Taiwanese computer and smartphone manufacturers....
...Kelly Chiang, New York JQ: Stubbornly high unemployment rates will remain a key challenge for many nations next year, with the jobless rate in the US and many European nations set to top 10 per cent in...
...For a dose of Chongqing’s wartime history, we visited the homes-turned-museums of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell, the US commander in China....
...His studio and workshop is in the basement of The Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, where he uses 14,000 prize blooms weekly....
...The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China By Jay Taylor Belknap, $35 The traditional view of “General Cash-My-Check” as a corrupt and incompetent bit-part player in the story of...
...José Alejandro Rojas, a former finance minister, has thrown his hat into the ring in a move that seems designed to weaken the chances of the candidate favoured by the US, Luis Alberto Moreno, the Colombian...
...Alejandro Toledo, the Peruvian president, will seek to promote stronger trade and investment links when he begins a five-day tour to China on Thursday....
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