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...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Earnings Yum Brands, the corporate parent of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut fast food franchises, is forecasted to report a revenue decline when it reveals third-quarter earnings before the bell....
...Company earnings US software company Oracle reports second-quarter earnings after the closing bell....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...Eli Lilly will join Pfizer in reporting before the opening bell....
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...General Haftar’s official spokesperson, Colonel Ahmed al-Mismari, gave several interviews to stress the limited footprint of the group....
...al could borrow influence from her ancestral homeland, she “certainly . . ....
...Enter AA Milne’s dim but loveable Pooh, followed by Rupert, Paddington et al. Why “teddy” bears?...
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...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Puzzle 2402 Al Horowitz v Alex Kevitz, New York 1931. How did White (to play) win in style? Click here for solution...
...The collection of geometric, sea-facing wooden houses was first developed in the early 1960s by architect and planner Al Boeke, who had a vision for a community that would live lightly on the land....
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...That was one of the conclusions reached by Ratschen et al in their study “Human-animal relationships and interactions during the Covid-19 lockdown phase in the UK”....
...The lawyers representing Al Gore and George W Bush — David Boies, who took on Microsoft in a landmark antitrust trial, versus Ted Olson, a partner at Gibson Dunn with numerous high court cases under his...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...As such, it began to mirror the tumultuous developments in architecture (arts nouveau and deco), music (ragtime and jazz), the performing arts (Josephine Baker, Diaghilev et al) and painting (fauvism, cubism...
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...Other FTSE 100 companies with a US focus — Ashtead, Prudential and Pearson et al — will be monitoring Ferguson’s drip-by-drip progress carefully....
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