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...The producers of The Italian Job film had planned both a different ending (in which the Mafia rescue the bus with two helicopters and a steel rope, all the robbers and of course the gold) and indeed...
...In the morning we set off to explore anyway, led by two guides from the Ecole du Ski Français, Thierry Delecluse and Gilles Olivier....
...They are therefore not equivalent and should not be treated as such....
...Yllanes’s works on paper were on the market through Ben Elwes for up to $45,000 and his paintings for $500,000-$2.5mn....
...European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo speak at the Val Duchesse Social Partners Summit, from 1.00pm....
...Film references are not the only element: also present are nods to Christie, Dumas, Daphne du Maurier and Dickens....
...d’Isère, France The striking Étoile du Nord has somehow managed to up the luxury ante in what many regard to be a luxury saturated resort....
...Having rejected the role of psychotic gangster Don Logan (played unimprovably by Ben Kingsley), retired thief Gal Dove was a more muted and melancholy twist on the career criminal....
...Now Austria is wading into the debate, writes Ben Hall....
...As former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and vice-chair Richard Clarida said in a Pimco video thingy yesterday, markets may be over-extrapolating the economic damage from the recent banking mess, and underestimating...
...The decorative panels on a supple black leather jacket mimic the Greek frieze railings of Hermès’s flagship store at 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré....
...Cookies and peace: Ice cream manufacturer Ben and Jerry’s has called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, potentially irking parent company Unilever....
...Aviation is on a “bit of a precipice” in terms of the transition to net zero, said Ben Morgan, research director of the AMRC. While it is a “huge opportunity . . . [it is] also a big risk”....
...Whether by Drusus Tabor for Schumacher or by designer Jermaine Gallacher, they tell a modernist tale reminiscent of the naturalistic abstract wonder of English artist Ben Nicholson....
...Ukraine’s supporters will grapple with these questions and more at a summit in London today, writes Ben Hall....
...Chart du jour: Chinese invasion Chinese carmakers have crowded out foreign competition in their home electric vehicle market....
...Rates to be set; nihi.com First tracks in Val Thorens For those who can’t wait to get their ski season started, Val Thorens, the Alps’ highest resort, is the place to start....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo, Emily Goldberg and Ben Wilhelm...
...He switched to the Portes du Soleil — a large ski area that straddles France and Switzerland....
...German defence minister Boris Pistorius hosts his British counterpart Ben Wallace in Berlin....
...“This is the beginning of guilt-free flying, if you will,” ZeroAvia’s founder Val Miftakhov told me, standing in a hangar in the English Cotswolds....
...A study to be published in the Review of Financial Studies that I co-authored with Itzhak Ben-David, Byungwook Kim and Rabih Moussawi suggests otherwise....
...Plus: as Putin’s brutal war to subdue Ukraine enters its second year, register here to join the FT’s Ben Hall, Chris Miller and guests tomorrow at 2pm for a subscriber-exclusive webinar on how the conflict...
...And Vals is “like a mouthful of diamonds”. Waiter, bring the water menu!...
...Val is away today so it’s me, Henry, steering you through the Europe news you need to know this morning....
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