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...Inter Miami bet that Lionel Messi would transform its flamingo logo into a globally recognised brand....
...Hong Kong’s government has expressed its “extreme disappointment” after Argentine football star Lionel Messi angered fans by sitting out a long-anticipated exhibition game in the Chinese territory....
...Of the many short videos that have spooled across social media since Sunday’s debacle in Hong Kong, the finest captures an enraged spectator kicking Lionel Messi’s head clean off his neck....
...My predecessor as the FT’s crime critic, Christopher Fowler, died in March this year, leaving a remarkable legacy....
...He installed Pierre Frey’s Caisson Bouquet, a cut-pile in a floral 19th-century pattern, in the bedroom and – much to the fury of social media – the bathroom of Lily Allen and David Harbour’s Brooklyn brownstone...
...If the polls are right Sunak will be an ex-prime minister at the age of just 44, younger than Liz Truss (47), David Cameron (49) and Tony Blair (54) when they left Downing Street....
...Inter Miami is co-owned by retired England great David Beckham and brothers Jorge and Jose Mas....
...Sunak’s still close to Lionel Assant, Blackstone’s head of European private equity, according to people familiar with the relationship. He’s also gotten to know the firm’s president, Jonathan Gray....
...Lionel Richie, Craig David and Lenny Kravitz serenaded the newly-weds. But the real VIP in attendance that day was no celebrity....
...Still, Bongo junior hobnobbed with celebrities from the UK’s King Charles III, with whom he shared an interest in conservation, and the likes of footballer Lionel Messi and Michael Jackson, the late singer...
...Full flowerThe romantic botanicals of Rameau Fleuri wallpaper are being revived from the riches of the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler archive (£696 per roll)....
...Top stories today Cameron and China cash | After leaving Number 10, David Cameron tried to set up a $1bn UK-China fund....
...While this is not back on the market, says the gallery’s George Lionel Barker, archival photographs of Boty taken by Michael Ward and also on show are £3,000....
...David Solomon, Goldman chief executive, said last month that “the market for top talent remains fiercely competitive”....
...Since Doha-backed Qatar Sports Investments took control 12 years ago in a $70mn deal, PSG has been transformed into a football force that has drawn star players such as David Beckham, Lionel Messi and Kylian...
...“Climbers can work but you’re more limited, particularly if they are the David Austin sort with very thick stems.”...
...China’s vice-premier He Lifeng told the territory’s elite last month, at a finance conference attended by US financiers including Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon and Blackstone’s Jonathan Gray, that he had...
...A simple test would be to see the number of Labour policies ditched by the coalition government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg after 2010....
...I asked Lionel Barber, under whom David served in Brussels in the early 1990s and under whom David became chief leader writer in 2006, what stands out for him....
...Demand is so high that even club co-owner David Beckham has to wait, reports the New York Times....
...Yet sales of the number 10 jersey have been frenzied since Lionel Messi signed in mid-July for the team co-owned by David Beckham....
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...In the 1960s, decorator David Hicks also capitalised on new technology — fitted carpets, improved mechanical ventilation — to swath baths, walls and furniture in fabric....
...NBA brass have entertained executives from both companies, including ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro and Warner chief David Zaslav, at finals games in Denver and Miami this year....
...He learnt these skills in the 1950s, when he was employed in the workshop of interior decorating company Colefax & Fowler....
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