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...Until April 10; further information and tickets here Performance ‘La bohème’, Royal Opera House A revival of Richard Jones’s 2017 staging of Puccini’s tragedy in the 100th anniversary of the composer’...
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...“Every bank is under the cosh of its national regulators, who in times of crisis show a huge home bias,” explained one expert....
...In Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin on the Left Bank, E&V is selling a four-bedroom flat for €3.2m. Emile Garcin is advertising a four-bedroom flat overlooking a 17th-century courtyard for €4.45m....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...On our first full day, a Sunday, we walked up to see the snout of the Ferpècle glacier, passing a family out strolling, presumably after church, in full national dress: father in lederhosen, flowers in the...
...They replace Ros Stephenson and William Vereker, who become executive vice-chair of the investment bank....
...After a Michelin-starred lunch at Assa, a sun-dappled restaurant on the banks of the Loire, I visit Château de Blois, where Mary, Queen of Scots, spent years waiting for her dauphin to grow up....
...(FT) China’s biggest bank and money laundering An investigative piece on how the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China allegedly helped launder hundreds of millions of euros for Chinese residents of Spain...
...There is no faulting the comfortable rooms either, nor the attentiveness or charm of the staff, led by the lodge manager Sabelo Ngidi, who began his career at South Africa’s First National Bank, through...
...Come May 17th, Modi will take his state-level success (a la Clinton and Reagan) to re-make the whole of India....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...One reason is that the first four years of the Supreme Court have been unusually short of high-profile cases....
...a North Korean invasion of Japan, mixing the thrills of a spy novel with some national soul-searching....
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...Say it loud, my fellow Americans, and say it proud: we just became the first majority-white democracy on this planet to anoint a black person as national leader. “That’s right: the first....
...The heart of Toulouse, known locally as La Ville Rose on account of its pink-brick architecture, centres on the Place du Capitole, on the north-eastern banks of the River Garonne....
...He accordingly set the lesser lots on one side and bottled them together as a second wine, La Grange Neuve de Figeac....
...The South Americans are thus the first team to qualify for the last 16 alongside hosts Germany, whom they meet in Berlin next week at the same time as the Costa Rica v Poland wake....
...Michael Spencer, chief executive of Icap, produced Cherie Blair as the most V of VIPs to take part in the interdealer broker’s annual charity day....
...biography of one of our late, great practitioners of the genre, V.S....
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