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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...Next day at an auditorium on Times Square he talked about the need to take risk, much more risk ‘we need you all to take $100m of daily V@R’ just like Goldman does....
...Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia has reported more than 5.3m cases, with more than 129,000 fatalities....
...In a speech published on his blog, Sobyanin said that only 1.3m of Moscow’s 12m residents had been vaccinated, which he said “could be at least twice as much”....
...The brocaded lamba last went on show in London’s V&A museum in 2012, at which time the natural historian David Attenborough said: “It must surely be counted as one of the rarest and most glamorous of fabrics...
...The Islamic republic started its Covid-19 vaccination campaign in February with Russia’s Sputnik V....
...Russia has vaccinated 6.3m people with at least one dose of vaccine, including 4.3m who have had both doses, Putin said at a televised government meeting on Monday....
...This year a three-bedroom semi-detached house sold for £495,000; a four-bed detached home for £1.3m....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...About 3.3m people have registered to be vaccinated in Hungary, which has a population of 10m....
...Overall, Mexico has administered 4.3m doses of a variety of Covid-19 shots, of which 2.9m are to people over 60 years old....
...Tata is suing for £7.9m, which includes the remainder plus interest and £1.3m for insurance liabilities....
...In north Amsterdam, “an area known as NDSM is booming, with big developers such as Hines building large, mixed-use schemes,” says Bas Wilberts, director of Savills Netherlands....
...The effectiveness data of Moscow’s Sputnik V vaccine have at least been properly peer reviewed, unlike the Sinopharm jab....
...IT provider Kainos said annual profit to March more than doubled to £50.3m on revenue up 31 per cent to £234.7m....
...Salvador, home to almost 3m residents, has suspended first vaccine doses for health workers and the elderly....
...Deputy prime minister Tatiana Golikova said on Tuesday that the country had already produced 117,000 doses of Sputnik V and expected that number to rise to nearly 3m before a mass vaccination campaign begins...
...Trump et al v....
...Germany’s economy will recover faster than expected from the coronavirus pandemic, with the resilience of its labour market helping achieve a sharp, V-shaped recovery, the government has said....
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...Ministers from Denmark, Austria and the Czech Republic have asked the EU to raise its €800,000 cap on direct grants and €3m ceiling for uncovered fixed cost compensation....
...There were 1.3m first-time claims, against 1.31m the week before. Economists had forecast claims of 1.25m....
...The pace of PUA claims has fallen from 1.3m over the span of three weeks....
...Despite the recent price increases, Sam Hines, worldwide head of watches at Sotheby’s, says the market for the “rarest, most exceptional pieces” continues to rise, with supply “very limited”....
...If you are looking to predict the shape of the US economic recovery — be it V, W, L or even K — don’t look at the markets....
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