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...Highlights Clubs spent $2.1mn on female football players in the January transfer window, according to world governing body Fifa, more than 2.7 times the same period a year earlier....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...Who Savills Contemporary villa, Murrayfield, £2.95mn Where In the Belmont Estate in Murrayfield. The international airport is 15 minutes away by car; Waverley Station is about 20 minutes....
...“Curves and folds being visible seem far more acceptable these days,” says fashion stylist Kate Rose Morris. She says the majority of her clients want to “smooth” rather than “shrink”....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...The late Jan Morris called it Venice’s “queer wet countryside”....
...Rates on five-year fixed rates at 65 per cent LTV moved from 1.77 per cent to 2.19 per cent over the same period....
...There were even larger provisions in the second quarter than in the first three months of the year, as banks tore up forecasts for a V-shaped recovery....
...An outlier so far is Deutsche, which provisioned just €500m in the first quarter, compared with £2.1bn at Barclays and $3bn at HSBC....
...In the US, $9.5bn of credit charges — including loan loss provisions — pushed Wells Fargo to a $2.4bn loss, while profit fell more than 50 per cent at Citi, Bank of America and JPMorgan....
...Spain is the worst-affected country in Europe after Italy, with 2,172 deaths and 33,000 infected by coronavirus so far....
...The rush of litigation under the ECT feels a bit like the Philip Morris-Australia case on plain packaging of cigarettes, which did so much to give ISDS a bad name internationally....
...Additional reporting by Stephen Morris...
...They moved in in September 1969 when they were in their twenties: today, they are the “longest-serving inmates”. “The longest ones still standing anyway,” says Carole, through the kitchen hatch....
...Tim Walker: Shoot for the Moon Collector’s Edition (£2,500, Thames & Hudson)Topping the visually sumptuous frenzy of magic realism photographer Tim Walker’s V&A show and accompanying book, and recently opened...
...What sets the seal on his mental decline is solitary imprisonment: “here is not a creature but myself”, he observes in his great “I have been studying how I may compare . . . ” soliloquy from Act V, Scene...
...With more than 2.8bn people flying each year — and by 2023 over half projected to be aged over 50 — the volume of problems is only set to rise....
...The NYSE instead put up a Swiss flag, which was met with mockery on social media. 2....
...The V&A stages at least three large-scale exhibitions each year and numerous smaller ones....
...Studies subsequently found that more than 90 per cent of inmates relapsed after leaving the farm....
...The agency’s mission at the end of the war is to seize the Nazis’ unfired V-2 missiles and their creator, Wernher von Braun....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photographs: iguanas.co.uk; V&A Slideshow photographs: marc-newson.com; Getty; V&A; AFP Letter in response to this article: New York’s museums in need...
...In Catholicism, for example, Vatican V.2 is still to be adopted by Mel Gibson (allegedly). While in Bitcoin right this very minute the great BitcoinXT civil war is under way....
...Shares in G4S, which have fallen 2.4 per cent over the past year, closed down 0.5 per cent at 257.2p on Monday....
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