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...The trial of one of America’s most famous Black citizens in a Los Angeles courtroom unfolded four years after the brutal beating of Rodney King, a Black man, by LA police, and racial tensions in the city...
...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...Their spines form colour blocks: NatGeo yellow and Monocle black, with a rainbow of Wallpaper copies adding a pop of pastel....
...They show me a large carpet which bears a grey and black print of a city map. “If you walk on it, you’re standing in Gotham without knowing it,” Chiave says. as excited as a kid with a new Batmobile....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...Even before 2011, when simmering discontent with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad broke into civil war, he had been interested in the nature of destruction....
...There was sniffiness in some quarters that they sounded too much like The Strokes, Television et al. Others were just grateful for the affinity. 3D Country is the follow-up album....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...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...
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...News round-up FCA lays out scale of investigation into Crispin Odey (FT) PwC tipped off Google on timing of Australian tax law (FT) Diddy claims Diageo dismissed his vodka as black brand with hip hop...
...Salta is a medium-sized city with a population of 700,000 people....
...Throughout his prolific career Lindbergh brought an otherworldly beauty to his black-and-white portraits – from Kate Moss to Linda Evangelista – for the likes of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar....
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...In 2008, she founded RAW Material Company, an independent art space in the city....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...I really like the ease of Jigsaw’s relaxed sweater (£110, jigsaw-online.com) If it’s arctic, use a light cashmere (Zadig and Voltaire’s “Brumy” is a good bet and currently on sale, £199, zadig-et-voltaire.com...
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...It is part documentary — the pioneering 1960s-70s photographs of how “black people perform in a certain vernacular”, as Armet Francis put it, are outstanding — about construction of identity in response...
...This week is the start of the Commonwealth Games in the UK’s second-largest city, Birmingham....
...It sits one block along from Les Deux Magots, the café once frequented by Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir et al and which has become a hang-out for tourists and would-be existentialists....
...This take is less Sex and the City-style outrageous fabulosity, however, and more in line with the minimal, monochrome simplicity and silhouettes of Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang et al....
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...Meanwhile, El Salvador’s government is planning a volcano-fuelled bitcoin city that will also function as a tax haven....
...Georges and Anthony Karam opened Partisan Café Artisanal in the historical Arts et Métiers district....
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