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...And, as tastes have shifted, “the interest in pewter has grown over the past 20 years, moving beyond Sweden to international buyers”, says Eva Seeman, chief specialist for modern and contemporary decorative...
...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...I started wearing Scottish cotton marcels [vests], Agnès b men’s shirts, oversized pants upgraded with a thin red leather belt and sneakers without laces....
...“Making money is art and working is art,” wrote Warhol in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again, a stream of consciousness on the contemporary world....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...Monday’s bizarre happening, which reignited the feud, is almost without precedent in international chess....
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...Indian fintech raise $60mn to expand loans-as-a-service Lentra, a Mumbai-based start-up, has completed a Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Susquehanna International Group, writes Jagmeet Singh...
...As always, reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to share your feedback on today’s newsletter. Happy reading!...
...“The topmost business families of India do not move without consulting good astrologers,” said Anupam V Kapil, an astrology columnist for the Times of India....
...In Japan, there’s a category of dining called B-kyu, which means “B-ranked” and refers to cheap but delicious “soul food”....
...B.V....
...Brent, the international benchmark, settled at $79.53 yesterday, a three-year high. West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, is now trading for more than $75/b....
...Hancock said 103 cases of the B.1.617 variant have now been identified within the UK, “the vast majority” of which had links to international travel....
...Health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza have received 20,000 doses of Sputnik V from the United Arab Emirates....
...The surge, tied to the B.1.1.7 variant, means that the Palestinian Authority is considering increasing its requests for transfers to Israeli hospitals, which the Israeli defense ministry would have to approve...
...International roadshows might have started the Friday before in London. But each, to some extent, had to be tailored to the schedules and aims of the company going public....
...Fuel consumption rose by more than 1m barrels a day to more than 20m b/d....
...While medicine is exempt from international sanctions, banking restrictions have complicated imports in the past....
...And B, that the strategy would be to decapitate the Ukrainian government. So what's your reading of that view from Moscow?...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...It will have a job on its hands, if the International Energy Agency’s numbers on UAE output are accurate. Production in July was 420,000 barrels a day higher than its 2.45m b/d quota, the agency said....
...It includes T-cells, B-cells and the antibodies they produce....
...Similarly, while the International Energy Agency now sees a bigger drop both at the trough this month of 29m b/d and for 2020 as a whole of 9.3m, by December it has demand back to only 2.7m below the level...
...To offset the fiscal impact of the revenue drop, we estimate that oil prices would need to average a little under USD48/b this year rather than the USD37/b we currently assume....
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