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...The Grameen Bank, started in Bangladesh by Muhammad Yunus, broke every rule in the banking book by giving uncollaterised micro loans to women living in poverty....
...The character’s original rival, Apollo Creed — Adonis’s father — was a flashy proxy for Muhammad Ali....
...Venezuela once produced more than 3mn b/d of oil, but last month eked out just 700,000 b/d. That’s considerable upside, if the industry could be patched up....
...Not a whit deterred, Riyadh followed up by announcing an increase in crude output from 9.7m barrels a day to 12.3m b/d....
...The limited-edition prints – all 22cm x 30cm and $85 – range from Sam Taylor-Johnson’s theatrical Bram Stoker’s Chair to Walter Iooss’ image of Muhammad Ali in the ring with Ernie Terrell....
...The London Athletes made a combined £6.7m (£8m with fees) and were topped by “Muhammad Ali”, which sold for £4.2m (£5m with fees), also the highest price of the evening....
...It is not just that businesses can employ refugees, added Halla Tomasdottir, chief executive of the B Team: “Without taking care of humanity, businesses will lose their licence to operate.”...
...“Once the new international airport opens on our island, more foreign tourists will find us,” said Annaliza B Page, who runs a small family-owned hotel on the Philippine island of Bohol....
...Alex Sheen recalls how Muhammad Ali trained to beat George Foreman by subjecting himself to a regime of being repeatedly punched in the face ....
...That is up by 2.5m b/d since 2014, even at a time of relatively low economic growth.The level of China’s imports has been pushed up by the decline in domestic production from the long-established fields...
...The kingdom will make the biggest cut, reducing its output by almost 500,000 b/d, though its production will still be above 10m b/d, higher than when it first opened the taps in late 2014....
...But after Ati, my wife, and I had spent more than a year scouring Jakarta for a suitable home to raise our as then non-existent family, we realised that we might have to consider a Plan B....
...Bodley Head, RRP£16.99, 304 pages Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State, by Andrew Hosken, Oneworld, RRP£12.99, 336 pages Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad, by Sami Moubayed, I.B....
...Tony Barber Science The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters, by Sean B Carroll, Princeton, RRP£18.95/$24.95 Carroll, a molecular biologist and geneticist, describes...
...Muhammad Yunus, social entrepreneur and founder of Grameen Bank, is an exceptional figure....
...But at the Apollo – the singer’s famous Harlem haunt – Derick K....
...One of the Big Tick winners in this category is B&Q, the home improvement retailer....
...A beats B. B beats C. So when A fights C, surely it is a foregone conclusion? C may have lost to B, but may still have the means of defeating A in an upset that shocks the world....
...Ambedkar and Muhammad Ali Jinnah – viewed as a saint. In fact, Gandhi wrote about them himself in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth....
...Jacob Rothschild (b. 1936) was chairman of N.M. Rothschild before retiring in 1980....
...The US is the world’s largest oil consumer with a daily oil demand of about 19.5m b/d....
...“This is a big step forward for exports of Kurdish oil, which is really Iraqi oil,” said Muhammad-Ali Zainy of the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London. “But this is an agreement on the hardware....
...The Guernsey Qualifying Investor Fund Class B is similar to Jersey’s Expert Fund, and Guernsey is also introducing an unregulated regime for open-ended funds....
...Once the preserve of 1970s B-list movies, saunas are now must-have items in the home....
...novelist David Foster Wallace in a 9,393 word article in the New York Times’ sports magazine Play in some of the most passionate, and partisan, prose on sport since The Fight, Norman Mailer’s account of Muhammad...
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