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...Elsewhere on Thursday… — Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals (WSJ $) — New World Order?...
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...Only near the end did the six women gather onstage, adding to the sense of crescendo in Schubert’s score....
...This retrospective of painting, sculpture, photography, sound and performance gathers the fruits of their collaboration....
...Royal figures in attendance will also include Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Harald V and Queen...
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Puzzle 2468 Bela Sandor v Zoltan Herendi, Budapest 1948. Black (to move) resigned here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...Apple’s updates to its iOS operating system have restricted the ability of apps to follow users around the web and gather information about them....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...Nato will gather in Madrid on Tuesday for three days of discussion, including its expansion in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...There’s an ideological project, and a very strong one, behind the establishment of the V&A, or of Tate — we’re just a bit more aware of that now.”...
...Sobyanin’s comments were the most candid admission yet from a Russian official that the Kremlin’s vaccination campaign has failed to gather pace....
...Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, who financed the election of Charles V to emperor, was in his own day the richest man alive....
...Another biotech, GL Rapha, will produce doses of Russia’s Sputnik V jab for global use. Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...Puzzle 2410 Nigel Short v Erik Blomqvist, Malmo 2017. White (Short) to move, has level material, while Black has a menacing back rank attack. What should the former world title challenger play?...
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...“We’ve gone through a couple of world wars, we’ve gone through the industrial revolution, and now, I gather, digitisation,” she said at the time....
...New Delhi has yet to give approval for other vaccines, including Russia’s Sputnik V, which has tie-ups with multiple Indian manufacturers to produce millions of doses....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab carries deliberate cold war echoes....
...That makes keeping up anti-infection measures vital, even as immunisations gather pace....
...Coronavirus Spotlight Investors are closely-watching for signs of a ‘v-shaped’ recovery, but the early indications are that the pandemic has widened the economic divergence in the eurozone....
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