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...German city locations....
...Across south-east Asia, Penang’s residential property price growth in the first half of 2023 was second only to the expensive city-state of Singapore, according to Knight Frank....
...Collardi — one of the best-known figures in Swiss banking, and perhaps one of the best-connected men in finance — booked two restaurants for lunch, both a few miles outside the city of his birth, Geneva,...
...stages peppered across the city....
...He stays in the city, in a council-funded flatlet, kept afloat by benefits....
...Zürich is a profoundly visual city and its tradition of graphic design goes back hundreds of years, from the colourful signs of the medieval guildhalls to old shopfronts and sophisticated contemporary design...
...However, this success masks the fact that there are just four active grandmasters — Michael Adams, Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones — rated over 2600, the level of the world top 250, and all four are...
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Once over Inderhavnsbroen, take the picturesque street of Nyhavn (on the opposite bank of the canal to the tourist hordes) to the city’s main square, Kongens Nytorv....
...While museums of science, technology and natural history adorn great cities all over the world, museums of the economy are rare....
...Naziha Jones and director Milli Bhatia bring an absurdist crackle to the telling of the story....
...While cities and the south-east of England have boomed, many rural communities continue to be neglected and lack infrastructure....
...Such a push will probably involve an attempt to encircle the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk....
...Jones is the one-time leading light of the early 2010s’ Rain City Superhero Movement, members of which lived by the values of comic-book figures such as Batman and Spider-Man in Seattle by taking on muggers...
...At Gee’s Bend, a small, cut-off community in Alabama, many generations of descendants of once enslaved women have developed extraordinary skills....
...V for Victory. With the Bank of England set to raise rates, the sooner the government gets its act together the better. Disagree? Thoughts in the usual place....
...In 1974, one out of the 1,000 people working in the region’s police and fire departments was African American, despite the population of its largest city, Birmingham, being 50 per cent black....
...Patrick Glynn-Jones, head of Strutt & Parker’s Winchester office, says that a five- bedroom detached house came up in the summer and sold for about £1.5m....
...Kim Jones’ first collection for Dior Men during spring/summer 2019 featured an update of the John Galliano-era Saddle bag, made popular on Sex and the City by Sarah Jessica Parker....
...While based in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, he met Alma Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, then an audiologist in Boston....
...The Dow Jones Transportation Average, for example, which includes economic bellwethers such as shipping behemoth FedEx and railroad operator Kansas City Southern, slid into a technical correction on Friday...
...Roy Strong, once director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the V&A, has about 480 items from his former home for sale at Chorley’s Auctioneers in Gloucestershire on Tuesday....
...in order to increase sales, in litigation brought by three California counties and the city of Oakland....
...On Tuesday, Ella Jones became the first black person and the first woman to be elected mayor of Ferguson, Missouri....
...But during an event on Tuesday with Doug Jones, a Democratic senator from Alabama, Dr Fauci warned against thinking that a lower rate of fatalities meant the crisis was subsiding....
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