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...Our headlamps painted a Mercedes sedan and a white Sprinter van. I’d never thought of Italians as punctual, but apparently Gianluigi and his crop were Austrian on such matters....
...Shoreham Hotel in Washington Tuesday Asalha Puja, commemorating Buddha’s first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares, is marked by Buddhists Cuba, Revolution Day commemorating the armed revolt by Fidel Castro...
...García Márquez told the New Yorker that his wife was the only person who could scold Castro, who lent them a house in Havana....
...(FT) Mercedes kick-starts Tesla offensive Mercedes has unveiled a battery-powered version of the brand’s flagship S-Class saloon, designed to lure customers away from the likes of Tesla....
...Ant Group’s planned IPO (Mercedes’ Top 10) may well be the world’s big tech splash of the year....
...Mercedes’ top 10 A round-up of the week’s best tech stories from the FT’s Asia tech reporter Mercedes Ruehl. 1. Unrest in Hong Kong has forced Alibaba’s board to postpone a $15bn listing in the city....
...What we’re reading Cuba after the Castros The appointment of a new president next week will finally bring to an end the Castro brothers’ 60-year rule....
...(FT) The day ahead Cuba after the Castros For the first time in decades, the new Cuban National Assembly will choose a president outside the Castro family, likely to be Miguel Diaz-Canel, a longtime government...
...(Bloomberg) Cuba’s new chapter Cuba’s National Assembly will confirm it has picked Raúl Castro’s right-hand man, Miguel Díaz-Canel, as the sole candidate to succeed him as president....
...FT is watching in the week ahead, including the IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington, first-quarter results from Unilever and three of the big six US banks, and the end of an era in Cuba, as Raúl Castro...
...January US President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address February Winter Olympics in South KoreaRaúl Castro set to step down as Cuba’s presidentUS Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen...
...For Mr Ortega, a short, moustachioed man of spartan tastes — his Mercedes is one of few luxuries — it was also a time of personal scandal after a stepdaughter accused him of raping her from the age of 11...
...(NAR) Death of a dictator Manuel Noriega, the former ruler of Panama who was a double agent for the CIA and Fidel Castro, has died aged 83....
...Fidel Castro. Leonard Cohen. The rooms they left behind....
...(FP) Video of the day Fidel Castro funeral dilemma The death of the Cuban leader triggered mixed reactions across the globe as opponents welcomed his demise while supporters grieved. (FT)...
...He is survived by his wife Mercedes, and two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo....
...García Márquez was married to Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, who now survive him. He said in 1985 that he wrote “so that my friends will love me more”....
...Football showdown The XLVII Super Bowl, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, sees champions of the AFC, San Francisco 49ers, play the NFC champions, the Baltimore Ravens....
...If Havana is Cuba’s past, Varadero is a glimpse of its future and, with some observers anticipating a more open foreign policy from the Raul Castro government, it could serve as a template for other, similar...
...Western companies such as Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Alstom, Toyota and Fiat, entered the Cuban market through representative and subsidiary companies in the 1990s with an eye to supplying the growing tourist...
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