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...When he came up short, he borrowed five dollars from a friend, and proudly tucked his purchase into an unmarked black plastic carrier bag, the barrel peeking just above the rim....
...One scoop to start: US private equity group Blackstone is vying to buy Pink Floyd’s back catalogue, a major bet on music rights that could value the band’s songs at almost half a billion dollars....
...The company’s insurance carriers and brokers said a rise in natural disasters was one reason why insurance premiums shot up....
...Chauvin is accused of killing George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes until he stopped breathing....
...That’s the extraordinary revelation from Claire Bushey, who unpacks the lucrative business of carriers’ loyalty programmes....
...Lufthansa’s Brussels Airlines started as the state-owned carrier servicing Belgian interests in central Africa....
...Last week we wrote about the antics of Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the Pink Floyd-loving founder of Paytm, India’s largest payments company....
...Smuggling through budget airline carriers is now a favoured method, hiding pouches of gold in bathroom panels....
...Mr Nene is said to have resisted Mr Zuma’s plans for the government to build nuclear plants that many believe the country cannot afford, as well as attempts by the board of the lossmaking state carrier,...
...“You’ve got 5,000 people on an aircraft carrier, mostly 20-year-olds, who are stuck at sea for five months with no contact with friends or family,” he said....
...A couple of stuffed carrier pigeons sit at the back of the stage, overshadowed by an old printing press that looks like it last saw action in the days of Martin Luther....
...Keith Floyd: Yes, he’s a maniac but Floyd always looked as if he enjoyed cooking for its own sake, rather than as a means to a lucrative supermarket advertising deal....
...“The CD is just another digital carrier and really doesn’t have enough advantage over newer digital formats to survive in the long run,” he says....
...Floyd Widener, vice-president of GetThere, says: “As we incorporate more no-frill carriers and low-fare flights into the system, this capability is likely to become increasingly significant.”...
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