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...The private equity firm this week agreed a sale of Dorna Sports, which owns MotoGP, to Liberty for €4.2bn including debt....
...Buying MotoGP would give Liberty Media, led by chief executive Greg Maffei, the chance to prove that its success in growing the popularity of F1 was not a one-off....
...Formula One, which is owned by US group Liberty Media, and Ben Sulayem’s FIA are discussing the situation, according to people with knowledge of the matter. F1 and the FIA declined to comment....
...Maffei told investors that Liberty had the option of increasing the cash component of the deal, and “could bring in third party equity to accomplish this”....
...What’s the third novel in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy? Which Jeff Koons statue, 12 metres high, stands outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?...
...News of the restructuring came shortly after Liberty Global reported its annual results. It swung to a loss from continuing operations of $3.9bn in 2023 compared with earnings of $1.1bn in 2022....
...The boss of Liberty, one of Britain’s oldest department stores, is expanding its own-brand offering and betting that beauty sales will fuel growth, in a move that could lead to new stand-alone shops....
...In July 1985, a number of Irish religious statues began to move....
...In fact, Berlin has not requested the return of the statue....
...the statue of Robert Clive, founder of the British East India Company, which appears in the photo of the Foreign Office accompanying the column....
...Take Denmark’s Vestas, which said on Thursday it would build a factory in Poland to make offshore turbine blades that are taller than the Statue of Liberty....
...“ArcelorMittal reasonably contemplates filing a worldwide freezing order in the English courts to prohibit the transfer of any of Liberty’s assets anywhere in the world up to €140 million,” lawyers for ArcelorMittal...
...The latter, Decolonised Structures (2022-23), recreates seven public statues from around London of imperial-age figures ranging from Sir Robert Clive, the first British administrator of Bengal, and Earl...
...’s hand in a reflection of the nearby sculpture of Mickey Mouse: “Collector and friend.”...
...“I did a project called the Internet Museum, where I montaged images of west African statues and ones from ancient Egypt that could be found in the Quai Branly [museum] and the Louvre,” she says....
...Hong Kong has passed a tough security law that was fast-tracked through the legislature in a move critics say will further erode civil liberties in the Chinese territory....
...Liberty invested heavily, acquiring 39 acres of land to build the paddock and pit building....
...Liberty, which is chaired by telecoms and entertainment billionaire John Malone, is poised to agree the takeover of Dorna Sports after seeing off a rival bid from TKO, the sports and entertainment group...
...The Bananas Split Award 2023 winner: Greg Maffei, Liberty Media Greg Maffei was the Exodia of executive perquisites last year, with the Liberty Media mogul’s $1.2mn of aircraft usage split across four...
...“It’s a shame for Brussels, and all of Europe, to see that our constitution, liberty of speech and liberty of gathering are now all of a sudden not possible anymore”, said Dominiek Lootens-Stael, a member...
...An 11-metre-high statue of King Ramses II, which once stood in a Cairo square, dominates the front of the atrium....
...Hong Kong is fast-tracking a tough new national security law that imposes life imprisonment for treason and increases sentences for crimes such as sedition, fuelling concerns that civil liberties are being...
...Everyone is at liberty to try to influence others with their own narrative. In much the same manner I, like many others, exercise that liberty by asserting the virtuousness of unaltered history....
...(Chronicle of Higher Education) — Is the turbine cycle turning?...
...Christ Chapel, modelled on St-Martins-in-the-Fields in London, looms over “Liberty Walk”, a square lined with donor-funded statues of historical figures including Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan....
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