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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Across the West Bank, Palestinians fearful of incursions by Israeli soldiers into their villages have built rudimentary fortifications....
...Dumi was born in north-west London, but her parents’ Nigerian-Brazilian heritage has been a strong influence on her work. “I thought of all the garments that I love,” she says....
...August 8-September 10, lucernefestival.ch Outside Lands, US This San Francisco festival celebrates 15 years at the Golden Gate Park this August....
...Dost Kol, a verdant hamlet in the arid, caramel hills an hour west of Kabul, is a typical Afghan village, a collection of mud-walled compounds, each housing a dozen or more people from extended families....
...It is an engineering feat 20 times the length of the Golden Gate Bridge that stretches across the mouth of the Pearl River....
...The Queen had an unnerving eye for detail, as six-time gold medallist Cleve West discovered....
...“I still miss London life — especially the V&A — but the village has been tremendously welcoming,” says Frances, 76, who prefers not to give her full name....
...Thank God for Theaster Gates and his sermon. “Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon”, Whitechapel Gallery, to January 9, whitechapelgallery.org....
...Manhattan, transforming Hudson Yards, the glossy mini-city between the West Village and Hell’s Kitchen, into a tech hub....
...My fiancée and I live within walking distance of Brompton Cemetery in the south-west corner of central London....
...He expects Benjamin to move out towards the end of this year....
...Apart from a chef-gardener, the only other inhabitant is Benjamin Harnwell, a conservative British Catholic who founded DHI in 2008....
...The 52-year-old married Benjamin de Rothschild in 1999 and is chief executive of his father’s Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild (Benjamin, scion of the French branch of the Rothschild family, is chairman...
...In every village, senior police officers and revenue officers are intimidating people.”...
...Palestinians reported a 23 year-old-man killed in clashes with the Israel Defense Forces in a West Bank village east of Jerusalem....
...We grew up together in north-west London....
...Their view is embodied by Professor Vaclav Smil, an energy scholar whose fans include Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. (“There is no author whose books I look forward to more,” Mr Gates says.)...
...Born in 1963 to a family of modest means in a Kazakh village near the Russian border, Ablyazov ditched a promising career in nuclear physics to embrace the Wild West capitalism that took hold as communism...
...About 25km west of bustling and crowded central Jakarta rises a modern satellite city....
...“I’ve always loved village pubs. For me, a private members’ club is to a city what a village pub is to a village.” Silicon Valley’s surge pushes up prices Rent a 120 sq ft shed for $800 a month....
...Such is the appeal of west Africa for Roland, the damaged, dodgy narrator of Johnson’s spy novel....
...Village scenes sold Auction house Bonhams offers works by East Anglian artists Sir Alfred Munnings and his sketching partner John Millar Watt, including views from the village of Dedham, where they lived...
...The late afternoon sun floods into Alexis Ohanian’s Brooklyn Heights loft apartment through massive windows facing west out to where the East and Hudson rivers merge....
...That evening, we watched a regular Saturday evening football match: war amputees v polio victims....
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