Hints and tips:
...One, then army sergeant Charles Jenkins, left his post in 1965 and fled across the DMZ....
...However, years of mismanagement, US sanctions and the expulsion of most foreign oil companies have reduced output to well below 1mn b/d....
...Had it not been for his doctor, who as a precaution pumped him full of vitamin B, a compound that binds to cyanide, he would probably have died....
...And you think about Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. What do I do if this doesn’t work, or if that breaks? You have a kind of mental machinery that prepares you.”...
...Geoff Ramsey, a Venezuela expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, said the US move was not purely about oil....
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...of international law that Israelis settling in Shaikh Jarrah or the Old City of Jerusalem is wrong — and Israeli officials who organise settlement there may be committing war crimes under Article 8(2)(b)...
...I was in town to interview Hamid Karzai and gained exclusive access to the village in Kandahar where US staff sergeant Robert Bales had massacred 16 Afghan civilians....
...“Ain’t No Sunshine”, “Lean on Me” and “Just the Two of Us” were all R&B standards and all became prestigious Grammy winners in the R&B category for the singer....
...Angus McIntosh, a former police sergeant, describes himself as British; his father fought for Britain in the second world war. McIntosh is opposed to independence....
...Output bottomed out at 9.7m b/d in June but has since risen to 10.9m b/d....
...“We believe that only three get built,” says Tom Ramsey, chief executive of Jupiter Energy Group. He hopes his project, a 1m b/d terminal off Brownsville, Texas, will be one of them....
...Theirs is a world of bicycle kicks and Plan B, of history lessons and political awakenings, selfies and HBO Go....
...As Lord de Ramsey points out, B&Bs in the remote parts of the flat, boggy fenland of Cambridgeshire will be harder to fill than those in the Lake District....
...Gang crime: Teenage boys are paying a high price for society's failure to engage them, writes Harriet Sergeant, drawing on her experience of befriending a south London gang....
...Exports climbed gradually in 2016, averaging less than 600,000 b/d....
...The then sergeant was caught on film shooting Sharif in the head as he lay incapacitated on the ground, while other soldiers stood by....
...Russia, whose form has been wretched, finished bottom of group B....
...A year later the opening brass fanfare, driving tambourine, soul-stirring handclap and joyful piano of the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s million-selling version became a longstanding club classic and a northern soul...
...But the cast includes Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and R&B star Mary J Blige, and Rees directs with authority — her future looks promising....
...The first half-hour is A-grade B-movie as Arlen is captured by cannibals and partially devoured before making her escape as meals on wheels via skateboard....
...“If you look at the Brent-WTI spread, the curve is telling the market to keep light, sweet crude domestic,” says Thomas Ramsey, chief executive of Texas-based Centurion Terminals and a former senior executive...
...As home news editor of The Times – the journalistic equivalent of a sergeant major – Gove would call reporters half an hour after deadline to inquire tangentially where their copy was....
...The B&Q store of Kingfisher, the DIY retailer, in New Malden employs ground-source heat pumps to heat and cool the store with geothermal energy taken from the earth via 108 bore holes 100 metres deep....
...So he asked if they could build one in the shape of a “B” instead, for Black Eyed Peas. They agreed....
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