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...Munich Re’s main insurance business Ergo provided about €700mn in loans, while Germany’s fourth largest insurance group R+V lent €500mn, more than half of which is not collateralised, according to the documents...
...The group announced in December that US investor Atairos had become a minority partner in V Sports, with people familiar with the matter saying the roughly 20 per cent stake valued Aston Villa at more than...
...For 40 years, a 12th-century walrus-ivory carving on loan to the V&A in London has captured the imagination of museum visitors....
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...There were some longer dresses: strapless or with a deep V neckline, held together by delicate lace....
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...Caret, by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber £25, 752 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...But there is nowhere better to see the work of his BIG (Bjarke Ingles Group) practice than in his hometown of Copenhagen....
...(Mastodon) — Brompton Square V (OneFineStay, h/t Lucy Watson)...
...Today, analysts are more interested in the group’s pivot into carbon capture....
...Puzzle 2495 Lucas van Foreest v Evgeny Bareev, Wijk aan Zee 2019. White to move and win. White is material up, while Black seems to have counterplay with queen and rook....
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a defence and intelligence adviser to the Ukrainian government, said Russia had intensified its artillery strikes on the front lines to try to exhaust Ukraine’s supplies....
...(“I don’t think the people who buy this are really affected by that,” quipped British designer Kim Jones, gesturing at his ethereal, Japonisme-inspired collection for Fendi.)...
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...In most other countries trust in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was low, as with the Sputnik V and Sinopharm vaccines....
...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....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, according to people familiar with the procurement process....
...Selling for three times its high estimate was “Love Ritual” (2019) by the British painter Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, which made £120,000 (£151,200 with fees)....
...Optimists expect it to look like a ‘V’, with growth zooming up once all of that pent-up demand is unleashed post-lockdown (with the potential for a second-wave – and subsequent lockdown – to lead to a ‘W...
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...For Jones, the appeal is twofold: it’s the rarity of the work as well as “the romance of the group”....
...And when we look back on the GDP charts years from now, we want to see this period marked by a sharp V....
...After the Dow Jones index rallied 27 per cent in seven weeks from its March 23 low, John Cassidy of The New Yorker asked: “Have investors . . . lost their minds?”...
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...And as Claire Jones notes, the PMIs are sometimes in danger of becoming Perpetually Misleading Indicators....
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