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...Events: Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visits China and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Vietnam. Corporate earnings: India’s Axis Bank and United Spirits issue updates....
...German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets with Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in Bangkok....
...He is recruited by a club owner (Jessica Williams) to clean up her joint, which is regularly trashed by the hirelings of an evil money man (Billy Magnussen)....
...On the landing upstairs live Mrs Pond (Alix Dunmore), suffering from PTSD, and her vulnerably needy 17-year-old daughter (Nell Williams)....
...“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” wrote the constitutionalist Walter Bagehot....
...As a former head of Scotch whisky group William Grant, Entain’s new interim chief Stella David should be familiar with the works of Walter Scott....
...Jean Walters takes the opposite view....
...Poitier plays a Philadelphia police detective who travels to Mississippi to help a racist small-town sheriff, played by Steiger, solve a murder....
...“It is quite evident that a museum will . . . become useless to the world,” wrote William Henry Playfair, architect of the National Gallery of Scotland, in 1816, “unless its contents be arranged in a judicious...
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...It is telling, moreover, that rather than Mitchel expressing his guilt directly, Keneally has him write to Jenny that “I’ve given my father more grief than all the sisters and young William combined.”...
...With reel-to-reel machines becoming more common, artists from William Burroughs to The Beatles began manipulating the magnetic tape by cutting and pasting, playing it backwards, or shifting speeds....
...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...face a partial shutdown of federal agencies Saturday Germany: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to visit Berlin and hold talks with German chancellor Olaf Scholz and president Frank-Walter...
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...two days of stimulating discussion with a cast of first-rate speakers including Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, Malaysian natural resources and environment minister, who warned European governments not to act like “sheriffs...
...The US currently has only one F1 driver — Logan Sargeant of Williams — and no American has won a grand prix since Mario Andretti in 1978....
...President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will give a speech in Berlin Friday UK: New lord mayor of the City of London, Michael Mainelli, takes office at The Silent Ceremony at Guildhall, becoming the 695th incumbent...
...Instead of any kind of technology being visible, there are a lot of cherished artworks by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Robert Tavener and Walter Hoyle and, in the kitchen, elaborately decorated ceramics....
...“Picasso was a phenomenon,” said its curator William Rubin. “There is virtually nothing in modern art that Picasso has not invented, practised or at least influenced.”...
...South Korea-Germany: German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea....
...He talks about buying “a Regency/William IV Mahogany Four-Poster bed (As Found)”, as the auction house’s catalogue described it....
...The show masterfully balances its sweetness with acidic barbs, most of them courtesy of inappropriate principal Ava (Janelle James) and mafia-adjacent Melissa (Lisa Ann Walter)....
...I’ve also got a Landseer of Sir Walter Scott, which is a very big picture. It’s worth more than all the others put together. I couldn’t do without my dogs....
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