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...Now it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure some of the planet’s top footballers to its shores, with French players N’Golo Kanté and Karim Benzema set to join Cristiano Ronaldo in its domestic...
...“N-n-nooo,” he says. “You can’t ask. Fashion is about latent demand. You can’t research it. If I say, ‘what colour are you going to buy next fall?’...
...The proposal would make the UK the first member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that does not border the Pacific Ocean or the South China Sea....
...Maersk has boosted its container business by buying Hamburg Süd, the German operator with a strong position in Latin America, for $4bn....
...But it is editorially imaginative, too: scan this cover with the Garage Mag app and a virtual sculpture by Koons appears in 3D; a “scratch ‘n’ sniff” issue invited perfumers to create new scents in response...
...(FT) US-Japan defence pact The duo signed new defence agreements allowing for greater military co-operation in the event of a conflict in the East China Sea or North Korea....
...It was raunchy, rock’n’roll, and the first celebrity to wear it will send Twitter wild....
...The earlier boat, passed off as deep-sea mining craft, turned out to be part of a clandestine project to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific....
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...help to resolve maritime row with China The Philippines has asked an international tribunal to intervene in its long-standing South China Sea territorial dispute with China and declare that Beijing’s claims...
...reiterated its “Buy” rating on the stock with a target price of 80.00p - Shire Plc: Credit Suisse retained its “Outperform” rating on the stock with a target price of 2,350.00p - Mytrah Energy Ltd: N+...
...Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +2.44% at 992.19 Americas DJIA up +3.98% at 11,240 S&P 500 up +4.74% at 1,173 Bovespa up +5.10% at 51,151 Asia Nikkei 225 up +1.05% at 9,039 Topix up +0.82%...
...Futurescapes, by Tim Richardson, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95 Richardson’s latest look at the landscape and garden world gives a thoughtful overview of contemporary designers from Kim Mikyoung to Charles Jencks to N-Tree...
...The North Sea explorer needs to use its financial strength to buy assets in 2011, but a scarcity of high-impact targets mean any deals will not be cheap, RBC argued....
...- Nunavut increases bid for Baffinland Iron Mines - CVS to buy Universal’s Medicare unit - Borders shares tumble on payment delays - US court dismisses $2 billion Porsche lawsuit - N...
...Medtronic was also mentioned as a potential bidder for S&N, which said on Friday that it was not in talks with anyone....
...Office replaces contract with security giant - Horseracing levy crisis comes to head - Forth Ports buoyed by Tilbury tonnage - Bridgepoint in talks to retake Alliance Medical - N...
...K&N rose 5.9 per cent to SFr114.50. Panalpina was up 4.5 per cent to SFr103.50 on a Credit Suisse upgrade....
...“We have angels and archangels, 12 apostles and a lamb, but none of your sea calves; we have – ” “That’s enough,” cut in the Eskimo, “your heaven has no seals, and a heaven without seals is not for us!”...
...That’s an audience 10 times the size of the one Newman & Baddiel reached with the two Wembley Arena gigs that sparked the whole “comedy is the new rock ‘n’ roll” furore, back in 1993....
...This never became popular, unsurprisingly, though a few films were later made with the technologically simpler “scratch’n’sniff” card....
...North Korea specifically warned about flying over the sea between Korea and Japan, where intelligence officials have warned that a ballistic missile launch could be imminent....
...Joan Jett belted out the chorus to “I love rock ’n’ roll” into the desert air as I gunned the Harley-Davidson into the long sweeping turns of the hills that separate the Red Sea from the plain of the Sahara...
...Bid watch: We’re keeping close tabs on S&N, following our story this morning about Carlsberg’s rights issue plans, and on Northern Rock. Stand by for an offer for Umbro from Nike, probably tomorrow....
...Tepco) to put its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant in Niigata on idle until safety checks had been carried out after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake had caused a fire and a leak of radioactive water into the sea...
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