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...Legal & General’s new chief executive António Simões promised a strategic overhaul that would create a “simpler investment case” for the FTSE 100 insurer, asset manager and housebuilder, as he presented...
...Indeed, ideas for Cork House II are now percolating. “Each time we work with cork we try to develop the system slightly differently,” he adds....
...After the full-blooded Verdi of Antonio Pappano it comes as a surprise to encounter the lighter style of conductor Bertrand de Billy....
...He has previously worked with former Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, who recently left the club after a nine-season spell, as well as West Ham’s Michail Antonio and the sprinter Daryll Neita....
...At this point you will see on your left the Ristorante all’Orto di Sant’Antonio, which means you’ve hit kilometre 21....
...When Antonio Citterio and his American-born wife Terry Dwan made their home in Milan in the 1980s, the city had only recently emerged from the protracted trauma of the Red Brigade years....
...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....
...She acquired paintings, watercolours and drawings and other works from artists such as the above-mentioned Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antonio Canova, JL Lund and Angelica Kaufmann — and this is the largest ever...
...For decades, the late Queen Elizabeth II attended daily, along with hundreds of thousands of visitors wearing their best clothes and most ridiculous hats....
...The walls of the sala blu feature van Dyck and Antonio Maria Vassallo; by the entrance to the library is a Portrait of a Lady by Rogier van der Weyden....
...Not so his son, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, chief exponent of Spanish fascism, executed by the Republicans after Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising....
...Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Piazza del Duomo, 20123 Milan The triumphal arch-type facade that faces the Duomo looks like a deliberate reinstatement of classicism to counter all that northern gothic,...
...Uvalde is a small town in south-west Texas with a population of about 15,000, approximately 50 miles from the US-Mexico border and 80 miles from San Antonio....
...“It is as if the Church had breathed in these past few years with two lungs: one lung, Benedict’s, dedicated to prayer, and the other lung Pope Francis’s leading the Church,” said Don Antonio, 43, a parish...
...Overlooking Plaza Isabel II, it’s right opposite the Teatro Real opera house and a couple of minutes away from the royal palace....
...rightwing scene is becoming more and more assertive, and that’s reflected in the increasingly flagrant way they propagate their goals, such as abolishing democracy,” says Benjamin Winkler of the Amadeu Antonio...
...Back in the UK, representatives of British workers will gather in Brighton for the annual TUC Congress, which was rescheduled due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II last month....
...cultivated here for a century or so (in some cases with investment from French and Spanish winemaking families, and, after a midcentury slump, with a major injection of subsidies in the 1990s by King Hassan II...
...Broadway’s safety measures were a welcome change for Jaime Benavides and Ricardo Bruno, who were visiting New York from San Antonio, Texas....
...This year will be remembered as the end of an era in Britain, due to the passing of Elizabeth II....
...Queen Elizabeth II said in a video address to world leaders at a COP26 event on Monday night that she hoped they would “answer the call of future generations”....
...António Mendonça Mendes, the outgoing fiscal affairs secretary, estimates the tax cut to be worth €90m a year, roughly equivalent to the projected gain in the VAT levied on fuel in 2021 compared with 2019...
...I’m not a trendy guy, but I am also not above taking a touristy stroll past La Scala, through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and on to the Duomo, before heading to quieter stretches such as Via Mozza...
...Imported Italians were also second rank: Benedetto Gennari, Guercino’s nephew, who painted a two-metre blue-gold “Annunciation” for James II; Antonio Verrio, whose “Sea Triumph of Charles II” represents...
...Last year António Guterres, UN secretary-general, sought to tackle this head on when he called together 30 chief executives from the world’s largest companies, banks and pension funds to form the Global...
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