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...A spokesman for BDO, the joint administrators, says that the company has appointed the art advisory business Gurr Johns “to assist in the detailed process of returning artworks to their established owners...
...John Wickham, press and media officer of the volunteer-run British UFO Research Association, groaned when I asked if this had been the case....
...John Reed is the FT’s south Asia bureau chief Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The Tshisekedi government last year declared one of the country’s longest states of siege since its independence from Belgium in 1960, with military officers taking over from civilian administrators....
...Mr Steyer and his wife Kathryn are ranked second for record lifetime political donations by the Center for Responsive Politics....
...You are Ms Jane Doe, aren’t you? I’m sorry to report that your bank account has been compromised, Ms Doe....
...John Reed is the FT’s south-east Asia correspondent and Bangkok bureau chief This article has been amended to reflect that Vingroup will not be the exclusive sponsor of Vietnam’s first Formula 1 race next...
...Among the worst affected are the communities in the central city of Danang and beyond it to the south, he adds, and the provinces facing the Paracel and Spratly Islands “are the most vulnerable of all”....
...“People I’ve known for decades have given up on China,” says Susan Shirk, chair of the 21st century China Center at the University of California San Diego....
...The vast majority fled poverty or violence in Mexico or other parts of Central America and two-thirds of them have been in the US for 10 years or more, according to the Pew Research Center....
...Furious reaction to Anglo Irish Bank phone records Take the management of the former Anglo Irish Bank, Irish officials, regulators and the central bank, put them in a sack and beat them with a long stick...
...Mute Kester Jaynes escapes from a nightmarish juvenile correctional facility, going on the run to discover the last holdout of wildlife left....
...Bush in the summer of 2005, when the native of tiny Dillon, South Carolina, was being considered to replace legendary Fed chair Alan Greenspan....
...Inside Central Asia By Dilip Hiro Overlook Duckworth, £25 For those who still get their “-stans” mixed up, Hiro’s book provides a detailed and nuanced overview of the region of central Asia....
...Today, the global wholesale milk price is down 40 per cent from record highs in 2008, while world grain prices are 50 per cent lower....
...At the time of the Iraq invasion, Stone was serving in Pakistan as deputy to General John Abizaid, Commander of US Central Command....
...Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, now operates about 1,000 UAVs....
...I do this out of a sense of responsibility to the historical record, and so that readers will know where I’m coming from....
...The 11 town councils south of Malaga keep meticulous records of the amount of rubbish they collect....
...Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, says it is “unclear” how much co-operation the agency needs from telecoms companies....
...Democrats have made much of the contrast between the heroic Vietnam war record of their candidate John Kerry, constantly flanked on the campaign trail by fellow veterans known as the “band of brothers”,...
...But in this presidential election year, the issue could become fiercely partisan: John Kerry has made it central to his agenda for the US military....
...The dollar fell to a record low against the euro, with forecasts of further declines to come....
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