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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...The final on Thursday and Friday (noon GMT start) will be Carlsen v Caruana, World No 1 v No 2 and a repeat of the 2018 classical world championship match....
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...It rightly gives kids access to “serious” original artworks, by the likes of Bridget Riley and David Hockney (the latter accompanied by aquatic soundscapes)....
...David Cameron spent a lot of the brief time he was at the 2015 COP in Paris sitting in the VIP tent and was one of the few heads of government not to meet his delegation....
...It’s also the most immaculate curation I’ve seen since visiting the Chanel show at the V&A....
...And finally To the V&A in London, where a new blockbuster exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, highlights both the designer’s revolutionary approach and her many links with Britain....
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...The trove of pop and rock history will be held and displayed in a newly created David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, east London, with items regularly...
...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
...In this weekend’s semi-final (Saturday and Sunday at midday on major chess websites, with live commentary by England’s David Howell) Carlsen faces the World Cup’s giant-killler and hometown favourite Nijat...
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, sought over the weekend to add detail to Labour’s foreign policy vision, which he summarised as “progressive realism”....
...In a letter to levelling up secretary Michael Gove this week, its chair Clive Betts pinpointed soaring children’s services costs as a key factor....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Only the virtuoso opening is the same: the larger than life marble “David”, all compressed energy, stands with the curl-framed head of Goliath at his feet....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...During my residency, the Prado’s one Caravaggio was being restored: a depiction of David with the head of Goliath from 1600, in which David looms largest, his knee resting on a felled Goliath as he grabs...
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
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