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...He drives a Tesla model S (with the paint stripped off to reveal the bare metal) and sails an 82ft Mark V special operations craft, a $3mn camouflaged Navy Seal vessel mounted with decommissioned machine...
...April 25 to October 20; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Royal Opera House In a new production, Aigul Akmetshina and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya share the role of Carmen in director...
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...It marks a record high that is close to surpassing the $105bn borrowed in all of 2008 and 2009 during the previous financial crisis, according to DD’s Eric Platt and the FT’s Colby Smith....
...Get the full story from the FT’s Mark Di Stefano and DD’s Rob Smith and Arash Massoudi here....
...(New York Times) News round-up Elliott says Capgemini’s €3.6bn bid for Altran is too low (FT) + (Lex) Elliott suffers German court blow over Kabel Deutschland (FT) Iceland and New Look set to change...
...(FT) Boomers v millennials investing challenge The millennials have come of age, but their impact on stock market returns is only beginning....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...(FT) Activist investor Elliott to buy Travelport in $4.4bn deal (FT) Tesla CEO Elon Musk: The 60 Minutes Interview (CBS) Interserve in financial rescue talks with creditors (FT) Activist investor Elliott...
...But it is something the likes of Elliott Management, BlackRock and even Icahn were comfortable with as the latter threw in the towel late on Thursday....
...CDP’s move follows stakebuilding in TI by Elliott, the activist investor....
...The location has not yet been decided, though the V&A’s garden courtyard is a candidate....
...Carmen Rodríguez, a 41-year-old teacher, said: “Spain has been mistreating us for years and years. This is the moment for us to show our support for independence, for us to shake free from Spain.”...
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...This month marks a century since the Order of the British Empire was created in its modern form by King George V for those who had served in non-combatant roles in the first world war....
...(FT) Does Mark Zuckerberg know what Facebook is? Max Read on the tech giant, its founder and its future....
...Chief executive Andy Palmer has said this business may one day account for as much as half of the company’s revenues....
...On the night of victory, he quoted from Henry V to his rapturous disciples. Hannan may be a cerebral speaker but he could not have run a winning campaign. Enter Matthew Elliott....
...and San Francisco-based startup Mark One use an array of sensors to beam drinkers’ real-time water consumption to apps....
...Across the world, the recoveries cannot easily be characterised as V-shaped or L-shaped....
...boardroom drama was heightened when Mr Tinkler and Trevor Howarth, Stobart’s legal director, were committed for civil trial for alleged contempt of court over a dispute concerning claims made by Peter Elliott...
...In April, the board announced that Ms Palmer Baunack’s role would be scrapped....
...The supremely American voice of the crime writer Elmore Leonard is expressed by Chili Palmer, his character in Get Shorty: “I’m not gonna say any more than I have to, if that.”...
...The piece fizzles out, and yet its weaknesses were mostly camouflaged by Carmen Jakobi’s simple staging, resourcefully designed by Matthew Deeley and Mark Howland, and choreographed by Gwen Elfyn Jones....
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