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...Aymers wall cabinet by Sebastian Cox, £5,595 Handmade in the UK from British-grown timber. sebastiancox.co.uk Bath mat by Montes & Clark, £20 Handwoven in Portugal from 100 per cent recycled cotton. montesandclark.com...
...after the Flemish nationalist N-VA slammed the door over a UN pact on migration....
...“It has a certain louche quality and feels very rock ’n’ roll. Balenciaga have done a version for summer that is incredibly fitted with angular, razor-sharp shoulders and a kick-flared trouser.”...
...AKK overture The new CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has made an overture to her defeated rival Friedrich Merz....
...Bart Sturtewagen in De Standaard argues brash missteps by the Flemish N-VA have handed Mr Michel the advantage, flipping the coalition balance of power....
...Brussels and Italy have agreed on a rescue of Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank, outlining a draft plan that involves significant cost cuts, some investors taking a hit and executives facing a cap on pay....
...All of which raises the qtwtaiy/n: can the same be said of Europe’s other banks?...
...A revealing early snapshot finds him, now in his twenties, in Yoko Ono’s New York loft apartment, watching as the minimalist artist and composer La Monte Young showed what he could do with a pendulum, a...
...The answer came back C-H-I-N-A-M-A-N. So he invented the insidious Fu Manchu. I also like the story that in real life, he gambled away his Surrey estate at Monte Carlo....
...Earnings Berkeley Group Holdings H1 82.90p (n/a) Del Monte Foods Q2 n/a Sberbank Rossii FY (11 months not available) Rbs16.36 (Rbs16.03) Trading and sales updateSThree Results forecasts, from Thomson...
...In the annals of disastrous comebacks – Napoleon at Waterloo, Björn Borg at the 1991 Monte Carlo Open, Guns ’N Roses’ Chinese Democracy album – special mention must go to Kevin Rowland....
Banco Popular offers to buy smaller listed rival Banco Pastor
...Del Monte’s most famous brands include pet foods such as Meo Mix and Kibble’s n’ Bits. In its second quarter of 2011, sales slumped on weaker demand for its vegetable and tomato products....
...Intesa Sanpaolo fell 7.4 per cent to €1.62, UniCredit 5.3 per cent to €1.25 and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena shed 5.5 per cent to €0.52....
...His implicit message to colleagues is thus surely that of a Monte Carlo croupier: Faites vos jeux, mesdames et messieurs....
...All the other Greek banks, bar Alpha Bank, as well as Italy’s Monte dei Paschi, would also need fresh capital of up to €1bn....
...Al-Assaf, Minister of Finance, Saudi Arabia Sultan N....
...M.N. Metropolitana di Napoli, a private consortium, is building Lines One and Six under Naples. Line One, the main axis, has 13km completed with seven more to be finished by 2011....
...“With these two drivers pointing in the same direction, we think that things are very positive for K&N.”...
...New, bigger, better yachts – so-called mega-yachts, such as C&N’s Annaliese or Turama – are increasingly chartered by high profile corporations....
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