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...Thus in 1972 Banca Commerciale Italiana (later merged into Banca Intesa Sanpaolo) was able to buy the picture for just 8mn lire — £3,500....
...More AI news: Google is releasing Gemini, its latest generative artificial intelligence system, alongside new offerings for businesses and consumers. 3....
...Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche of Tesla stock, worth almost $3.6bn, in a move that risks further irritating already frustrated shareholders in the electric vehicle group....
...The dramatic shift in the social network’s focus away from public posting was outlined in a 3,200-word blog entry by the founder and chief executive of the social network....
...“Humans are overwhelmingly sedentary and some are nomads, currently 3.4 per cent. Fifteen years ago it was 2.7 per cent. How much will it grow?...
...Critics say that corruption played a part here too, for example inflating the cost of the $3.3bn Chinese-built railway from Mombasa to Nairobi....
...A recent analysis from the Hoover Institution suggests that China’s economic growth might be reduced by 0.3 percentage points in a tariff war....
...The writer is a barrister at 3 Hare Court...
...Most ECB watchers think the council will resist pulling ELA completely until July 20, when Greece must repay €3.5bn to the central bank....
...Chipotle shares, which have fallen 9 per cent this year, dropped 3 per cent. Health scares at other restaurant chains have sometimes meaningfully affected demand....
...The unmasking of Mohammed Emwazi, a Londoner as Jihadi John, an Isis hostage executioner, has triggered renewed hand-wringing over extremism in the UK and raised questions about the authorities’ competence...
...We have learnt that the security services are monitoring 3,000 people in the UK who are considered a potential threat because of links to Islamic extremism....
...Or maybe a character out of Dr Zhivago: perhaps the idealistic young revolutionary played by Tom Courtenay who ended up as Lord High Executioner....
...At the moment, private-sector economists expect growth in Japan of about 3.3 per cent during the period, on an annualised basis, following the tax-hit 7.1 per cent contraction in the second quarter....
...On Wednesday, US officials published the names of two Isis fighters it said were Isis “executioners” – Frenchman Salim Benghalem and Albanian Lavdrim Muhaxheri....
...In addition to daily air strikes, US President Barack Obama has authorised some 3,000 troops to deploy in Iraq to train and advise Iraqi forces....
...The executioners were mostly teenagers. Music played through loudspeakers to drown the screams of the dying....
...Change the executioner There is next to no chance of Brussels remaining the top resolution authority....
...As for the remaining 3 per cent dissent, the best solution for chairmen is to talk directly to the owners, not to ignore them on the basis that “abstentions don’t count” or that shareholders have been led...
...Jack Abbott In 1977, prisoner Jack Abbott offered to give Norman Mailer a sense of life behind bars, jealous that Mailer was in correspondence with Gary Gilmore (who was to become the subject of The Executioner...
...NEWS China’s June trade data pointed to a deeper slowdown: Exports fell 3.1% year-on-year, compared to consensus forecasts of 3.7% growth. Imports also fell, by 0.7%....
...They closed on Thursday at 315p, down 3 per cent and more than 37 per cent adrift from the 503p break-even price for the €45bn-plus that the government injected in bailout money in 2008-9....
...“By being fully in the hands of the state, Ecopetrol used to be judge, jury, and executioner....
...Far from exhibiting any aristocratic sangfroid, she begged for her life, beseeching the executioner for “encore un moment”....
...Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, which Rushdie considers as “a masterpiece of the form” in which you apply the novelist...
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