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...The US president is set to raise more than $25mn from his event at New York’s Radio City Music Hall featuring former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton....
...Why The eight-storey building was designed by Foster + Partners, whose other work along the river in London includes City Hall and the Millennium Bridge....
...Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1969-75 1972: In the White House barber shop with barber Milton Pitts 1974: Kissinger accepts food from China’s premier Zhou Enlai during a state banquet at the Great Hall...
...To see Pink Floyd in 1977 at New Bingley Hall, Stafford, was £3.50 — less than I paid for the then recently released Pink Floyd album Animals....
...“Isis-K is currently the biggest Islamist [terror] threat in Germany,” said Nancy Faeser, interior minister of Germany, which has foiled several Isis-K-linked plots over the past 18 months....
...De Castellane is known for her warm and lively interiors – she favours a pastiche of print and colour that recalls le style anglais in the tradition of David Hicks and Nancy Lancaster....
...She was the first female mayor of San Francisco, taking over at City Hall at a fraught time, after the assassinations of the mayor George Moscone and councillor Harvey Milk....
...Additional reporting from Philip Stafford in London...
...One is reminded of Charles Ryder in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, pathetically craving the gilded halls of high society while fretting about words like “righty-o.”...
...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...A few years ago, Nancy Rothwell wrote in the FT that she considers graduating students have been failed if they leave only with “a degree and greater ‘earning power’ . . ....
...We’re talking to our competitors,” Biden told reporters in an ornate hall....
...In exchange for reduced rent, artists offer free creative programmes for the neighbourhood through a ground-floor community hall and outdoor exhibition space....
...Last August, Beijing staged unprecedented military exercises and fired missiles over Taiwan for the first time after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei....
...Say you’re starting from the ground up: a completely vacant entrance hall. Think about the hard finishes first. Are the floors to be stone, tiles, wood or carpet?...
...Cryptofinance is edited by Philip Stafford. Please send any thoughts and feedback to cryptofinance@ft.com. Your comments are welcome....
...The encounter in the Great Hall of the People made Michel the latest in a string of world leaders to hold talks in person with the Chinese president following his emergence from several years of isolation...
...silhouettes have stayed the same: most recently she set the internet ablaze as the inspiration behind TikTok’s viral “coastal grandmother”, prompted by Keaton’s turtleneck-wearing, linen-crazed character in Nancy...
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, has named Hakeem Jeffries as her heir and a new book, The Successor, looks at Lachlan Murdoch, heir apparent to his father Rupert’...
...The Stafford says all energy comes from green and renewable sources....
...He becomes the first black person to lead a political party in Congress and the successor to Nancy Pelosi. Speaking on Capitol Hill, Jeffries invoked the memory of his predecessor....
...Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, met Zelensky in Kyiv at the weekend, according to footage released by the president’s office on Sunday....
...We met them in the arrivals hall....
...Thousands of visitors queued to view the Queen’s coffin at Westminster Hall, where the late monarch had been lying in state since Wednesday....
...But on Sunday August 7, even as tension with China (which claims ownership of the island) swirled over US politician Nancy Pelosi’s visit, the building, with three theatres, finally opened....
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