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...Education City is an island of western academia established by the Qatar Foundation that was set up by Sheikh Hamad’s wife, Sheikha Moza....
...Long before Yeti’s V Series stainless-steel cooler was being featured on Kim Kardashian’s Instagram, it was the brand of choice for fishermen in Texas and Florida because it “delivered a level of durability...
...The $300m cost is being picked up by the V-A-C Foundation, whose patron is gas billionaire Leonid Mikhelson, one of Russia’s richest people....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...Over the past two years, a growing number of legal cases in the US — brought by cities, counties, and the State of Rhode Island — are seeking damages from energy companies for a litany of climate-related...
...The good news is that once the typhoon was over, the recovery process was quick and efficient in Japan, where the main islands get hit by an average of three typhoons a year....
...George Osborne quoted Shakespeare’s Henry V as he delivered the last Budget of this administration....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...Similarly, as the matriarch of the gas-rich state (Sheikha Moza is the second of the three wives of the recently retired emir, Sheikh Hamad, who transformed Qatar from a sleepy backwater into a global power...
...magnitude or above (USGS)130km – distance between epicentre of quake and Sendai city (USGS)800km – speed of tsunami (BBC) 0946 – Here’s a video of the ground literally tearing in Chiba City on Friday....
...guns, factory smoke, and gas masks....
...A new energy is palpable in the once sleepy but gas-rich Doha, while Abu Dhabi has started shedding its traditional conservatism to transform sandy islands off the coast into high-end tourist resorts....
...HSBC is not the only City institution preparing for a royal visitor, writes Clay Harris . Lloyd’s next Wednesday will roll out the carpet for King Harald V of Norway....
...In an overcrowded hospital in Jaffna, a town on the island’s northern tip, I held the hand of a 12-year-old girl who was crying....
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