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...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...“In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, special operations are no longer driven by Communist ideology, but they still use the same tools and methods,” said one of the report’s authors, Oleksandr V Danylyuk....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...Manitas de Plata (literally: “little silver hands”) was a flamenco rock star, a regular face on the old TV variety format and feted by everyone from John Steinbeck to Picasso....
...The best of them, Shreyas Royal, 14, is closing in on an age record as England’s youngest grandmaster....
...The historic Oxford v Cambridge varsity match, the oldest fixture in world chess, reaches 150 years this Saturday when the eight-a-side teams begin play at its traditional venue, the Royal Automobile Club...
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...Modi has hit back by deriding the powerful Gandhi dynasty that dominates the opposition party as a “royal family”....
...His coach, GM John Emms, has this year captained England’s over-50 teams to gold medals at the world and European championships....
...Previously, she fulfilled a similar role at John Galliano, where she was instrumental in shaping the designer’s early shows....
...I also give out copies of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing like the Bible. There’s a brilliant chapter about being naked and the nude....
...This is the latest chapter in a decades-old decolonisation effort that saw George V removed from his pedestal in the 1960s, when the opposition Congress party was in power....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...The 16th-century artwork, nearly 3.5 metres tall, depicts Saint Jerome’s vision of John the Baptist revealing the Virgin and Jesus. It has a rich history....
...Royal figures in attendance will also include Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Harald V and Queen...
...She is a former Royal Air Force engineer whose father once worked at Dormobile, the UK camper-van company....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...Opera House and Theatre Royal Drury Lane....
...The previous night she saw John Adams’s modern opera Nixon in China, but I have been dying to ask her whether it is true that she is a David Bowie fan. It is....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...The year after Arbus’s death, curator John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art mounted a major retrospective, which broke all attendance records for a one-person show at the museum....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...In fact it is such a polite garden that John Chapple, the palace beekeeper, informed the royal bees of the Queen’s death, tied black bands around the hives and explained that King Charles is their new boss...
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