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...The Betts brothers are ninth-generation gold-bullion dealers whose family business was established in 1760. “I’m an accidental miner, though,” says Betts....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...“The prospect of a V-shaped recovery is absolutely zero,” said James Knightley, chief international economist with ING. “Getting 40m jobs returning in the next 12 months?...
...Which Scottish city is home to Britain’s only V&A museum outside London? On a traditional London Monopoly board, what’s the only property with the definite article in its name?...
...More overtly theatrical are Gary McCann’s costumes for Norwegian National Opera’s production of Die Fledermaus, which transpose the action to the New York art/fashion scene....
...And in all this time I have been going on and off for dinner, lunch or breakfast at Fouquet’s, the chicest and oldest brasserie on the Champs Élysées, at the corner of the Avenue George V....
...TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann, Bloomsbury, £18.99, 320 pages In this ambitious novel of journeys back and forth across the Atlantic, McCann links people, real and imagined, and their stories spanning 150...
...The George V, run by Four Seasons, has regularly been voted among the world’s best hotels....
...Jean-Paul Belmondo, the veteran French film actor, was sitting at a table not far from us at Marius et Jeanette, a smart fish restaurant at the bottom of the Avenue George V, with his little Yorkie and immediately...
...One of Europe’s leading shipping companies – V.Ships, which manages about 1,000 vessels – has set up a subsidiary called V.Navy. One of its challenges is to make merchant shipping safer....
...Let the Great World Spin By Colum McCann Bloomsbury, £18.99 Lives collide dramatically in this beautifully written New York novel by Irish novelist McCann, set on the day in 1974 when the French high-wire...
...Already, Mr Patel and V. Thulasidas, Air India’s chairman, have engineered the airline’s merger with the state-owned domestic carrier Indian Airlines....
...However, it was hardly a classic David v Goliath battle, given that the victor was Citigroup, the US banking giant, which is no stranger to struggles with regulators across the world....
...And this means that until the Democrats rethink or repackage their proudest achievements - the welfare state, healthcare, the Voting Rights Act and, by association, Roe v....
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