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...Year of the Naga a mythical, water serpent, begins Sunday Finland: presidential run-off election US: Super Bowl LVIII sees the San Francisco 49ers play defending champions Kansas City Chiefs in Las Vegas...
...Cowboy culture hasn’t been this zeitgeist since Marlboro Man billboards were plastered across New York, and Ralph Lauren was the king of 1990s fashion....
...The FT’s reviewer Oliver Ralph applauded how the authors bring “a chatty, breezy style”, reminiscent of the bestseller Freakonomics, to this unpromising subject....
...“The upcoming Ariane 6 and Vega C rockets are coming online this year. [They] will fill that gap. This just accelerates that process,” Smith said....
...normal year, this would be a wide stretch of salt pans, but Botswana has had more than three times its annual rainfall and instead of the psoriasis crust of clay, a pale blue lake glitters, flanked by a Vegas...
...“Our lodger was Ralph Steadman,” remembers Tarka. “I remember him knee-deep in drawings in his room while he worked on the illustrations for Hunter S Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”...
...Around 7,000 people gathered in Las Vegas last week for the annual InsureTech Connect show to hear about what’s in the pipeline, gossip with old friends, and perhaps wonder if the slot machines are an easier...
...But he was not the only candidate under fire as the presidential candidates used Wednesday night’s debate in Las Vegas to stake their claims ahead of Saturday’s Nevada caucuses....
...Ralph Lauren shares declined 4.5 per cent to $100.68, US-listed shares of Canada Goose fell 3.9 per cent to $42.16, while Tiffany shares declined 2.7 per cent to $79.59....
...Buffett sat down with DD’s own Eric Platt and the FT’s Robert Armstrong and Oliver Ralph last week for a wide-ranging interview days after Sloan, pictured lower down, stepped aside....
...Swiss Re In one of the week’s more unlikely pairings, it emerged that SoftBank, the acquisitive Japanese conglomerate, is in talks to buy a minority stake in Zurich-based reinsurer Swiss Re, writes Oliver Ralph...
...Additional reporting by Shannon Bond, Aliya Ram, Ben McLannahan and Oliver Ralph...
...Mafia families plot to turn a sleepy beachside area into a new Las Vegas, but first they must remove the inconveniences of the current land owners and local law without destroying the town’s delicate balance...
...Ralph de la Vega President and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions Atlanta, GA, US Letter in response to this letter: Incumbents can stall genuine competition / From Niels Erich...
...Fashion-oriented wearable technology was a top theme at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Fitbit launched a fitness-focused smartwatch....
...‘Nextinction’, by Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy, Bloomsbury, RRP£35 Photograph: Getty Images Illustration by Ralph Steadman...
...Yet Ralph de la Vega’s response on AT&T’s behalf (Letters, September 8) is devoted largely to deriding BT’s Openreach service quality and business model in the UK....
...Letters in response to this report: Telecoms models differ but competition is the goal / From Ralph de la Vega Incumbents can stall genuine competition / From Niels Erich...
...A skilled poker player, Mr Scheinberg placed 25th at a Texas Hold’ Em tournament at the 1996 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and in October last year won the UK and Ireland Poker Tour....
...Ralph de la Vega, AT&T Mobility’s president, announced the initiative during his keynote speech at AT&T’s developers conference in Las Vegas, timed to coincide with the annual Consumer Electronics Show....
...The rear wall is painted with reproductions of some of Ralph Steadman’s nightmare-cartoon representations of the trip, with further Steadmanisms projected on to it along with newspaper cuttings, news clips...
...Tisci now wants to build Givenchy, “like Ralph Lauren or Armani”, into a fully integrated brand, with books, a magazine, art collaborations, music and new product lines....
...Hollywood studios have had a big presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week....
...“The car is becoming a smartphone on wheels,” said Ralph de la Vega, AT&T Mobility’s president. “I have been blown away by how fast mobility and connected apps are moving into the car.”...
...Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, estimates that about half his country’s murders are directly tied to the drug trade....
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