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...Take, for example, the desert-scorched vistas of his 2023 movie Asteroid City, in which a train chugs across a dusty landscape towards a cluster of red rocks....
...Control of the Hendrix estate, currently estimated to be worth around $175mn, was passed to Janie after Al’s death in 2002, a decision that was unsuccessfully contested by Hendrix’s brother Leon in a legal...
...With headliners like Florence and The Machine and The Chemical Brothers, the city of lights shines brighter than usual across four days in August. August 23-27, rockenseine.com...
...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...
...The energy minister is the half-brother of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler....
...(Bloomberg) Lloyd’s of London set to stay in landmark City building (FT) Beijing decries India’s ‘frequent’ probes after raid of phonemaker Vivo (FT) Boris resignation rocks City: ‘We’re not out of the...
...As Turkey enjoyed a national holiday last week, a video swept the country’s social media. The fictional narrative presented a dystopian vision of Istanbul in 2043, the city dilapidated and dangerous....
...There are white tablecloths and red velvet chairs; tuxedoed waiters bearing plates of everything from veal tonnato to tagliolini al ragú; and a live band and singer performing a classic song by Nat King...
...After shots of that, I need to try Teremana, The Rock’s tequila....
...The company said hail storms in Texas, where many of its customers live, contributed to a spike in its loss ratio during the second quarter....
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...Lenders such as Australia’s Macquarie Bank and the UK’s Close Brothers supplied the cash. Football’s money-go-round spun ever faster. Now the pandemic has exposed this business model....
...When a consortium led by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan bought the club in 2008, City were said to be so broke that the groundsman didn’t have enough white paint to draw the lines on the...
...After driving himself around all 254 counties in Texas, Mr O’Rourke, an Irish-American former punk rock musician, has arrived at the unlikely position of being within striking distance of unseating Ted Cruz...
...The scenic majesty peaked in the Rhine Gorge, the waters hemmed in by rearing walls of rock topped with a hundred fairytale turrets....
...A round-up of some of the year’s most significant corporate events and news stories....
...In an election expected to favour outsiders, the likely winner probably will not become clear until the second round of voting in October....
...et Romantique in 1989, and notable recordings of Brahms and Beethoven....
...The windy city has been home to luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Daley political dynasty, Al Capone, Michael Jordan, Studs Terkel and Barack Obama, not to mention the riotous 1968 Democratic party...
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...the loft for the soul of his disabled baby brother....
...A chap from the ministry of tourism arrived to show me round the old merchant’s quarter....
...Al Cardenas, the former chairman of the Republican party in Florida who knows Mr Bush and Mr Rubio better than anyone, said he was supporting Mr Bush but that his “heart was hurting” because of his close...
...money around the cities where they work, play or own assets....
...Aviv as a “Bauhaus” Modernist city as a means of differentiating it from neighbouring Jaffa, portrayed as a dark, shady city of the Orient....
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