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...Monday UK: Deloitte releases the results of its survey of chief financial officers of large companies for the first part of 2024, gauging the executives’ outlooks and priorities for the year ahead Switzerland...
...Real estate agents could now go the way of travel agents, she predicted: the few flight bookers who remain now largely specialise in co-ordinating the most complex trips....
...Booker Prize: The winner of the literary award for fiction will be announced at a ceremony in London on Sunday....
...Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber) When Tom Kettle, a retired police officer living in a remote annex overlooking the Irish Sea, receives a knock at the door, his tragic past is wrenched back into...
...Guy Gunaratne’s 2018 debut In Our Mad and Furious City announced a bold new voice, won several literary awards and was longlisted for the Booker Prize....
...The title character of which George Bernard Shaw play is a female officer in the Salvation Army? Which of the UK’s four national patron saints was one of Jesus’ 12 apostles?...
...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...This Ireland-set family saga (650 pages) is on the Booker Prize shortlist. Will it win? Probably not — I’ve usually disagreed with the judging panel’s choices in recent years....
...Failed acts of disobedience: “Rico had found a big nail and wanted to puncture [a police officer’s] tyres, but he couldn’t get the nail in the rubber.”...
...I was marketer, booker and health and safety officer. I distributed the bins at dawn. June is one of the best months for visiting markets....
...Meanwhile, the veteran hippy Alik and his one-time persecutor, the ex-KGB officer Captain Ryabtsev, bond over their memories....
...A feeble suicide attempt ensues, which is almost comically interrupted by another knock at the door, the second in nine months, from another officer....
...UK, winner of the International Booker Prize announced in London....
...“This is by far Harris’s best book since An Officer and a Spy,” according to the FT review. Briefly, A Delicious Lifeby Nell Stevens, Picador £14.99/Scribner $26.99 Mallorca, 1838....
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...Among them was Democratic senator Cory Booker, who bonded with fellow vegan Holmes over a dinner in which they both shared a packet of almonds....
...He said that officers at the scene had believed that all of the children in the classroom had already been killed....
...Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell win historic Booker Geetanjali Shree has been announced as the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize for her sprawling and multi-faceted novel Tomb of Sand....
...exchanged by officers at Charing Cross station....
...At the age of 11, she was inspired when she was rescued by a female SDF officer following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami....
...Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat, said it would “enhance accountability, improve transparency, and raise policing standards” — hopefully serving as a “catalyst” for more change....
...His murder by a police officer sparked worldwide protests and led to more focused attention on US racial disparities....
...Fragments of a poem by modern-day British writer Malika Booker are carved on a table: “O Speak of Mahogany . . . Think genocide visited here and men laboured in the art of such.”...
...in the country’s presidential election India, Voting ends in the last of the seven-phase election in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh US, trial begins for three former Minneapolis police officers...
...The last time I saw him was in his previous role as the chief executive of Man Group, one of the world’s biggest hedge fund managers, the then sponsor of the Booker Prize, when he presided over its award...
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