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...This is a column of two halves, and I wish that I had the freedom — as in Ali Smith’s ingenious How to Be Both — to allow you to choose which section to begin with, because one doubtless rests more heavily...
...Reviving Alibaba’s fortunes will require “something radical”, said Clark. “Alibaba needs to get back to basics....
...Finally, one of the year’s most anticipated works of fiction is Monica Ali’s Love Marriage (Hachette Audio UK, 15hr 51min), her first novel for 11 years, and nearly two decades after her acclaimed debut...
...I have a hard drive full of clumsy rip-offs of PG Wodehouse, Ali Smith and, for my sins, David Foster Wallace that I hope never see the light of day....
...Both Mehta and Ali join from JPMorgan Chase’s healthcare investment banking group....
...Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039: Kallirroi Kapetanaki, Luxembourg Crossword 16,266: Wilbur Heenan, Ireland; Dr Mike Ewart, East Lothan; Ali...
...The push will “position New York to be a leader, as the rest of the country and the rest of the world comes around to advancing climate action at the pace and scale that we’re doing here”, says Ali Zaidi...
...Nimco Ali and Leyla Hussein, campaigners and survivors of female genital mutilation, are both made OBEs....
...Kimberly-Clark, maker of Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues, last week raised its full-year outlook for sales and profits....
...Kimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex and Huggies, last week lowered its forecasts for annual profits....
...Heba talks to Zinat Mohamed Ali, an activist in southern Egypt who says Christian as well as Muslim women are regularly denied their inheritance: “What we have here is tradition, not Islamic law....
...Rival Kimberly-Clark announced it was laying off 5,000 employees as it revealed declining prices for products such as nappies....
...But Qatar has weathered the embargo storm and is now accelerating economic reforms aimed at boosting investment, said Ali Shareef al-Emadi, Qatar’s finance minister....
...protesters who have been out in the streets across Iran over the past ten days have been chanting “long live Reza Shah”, in a show of opposition to the Islamic Republic and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...
...Ali Smith Author of Winter For anyone interested in any of the multiple greatnesses of Muriel Spark — her sense of creative paradox, her determination to free us from our own tendencies to fix and categorise...
...Actress in a leading role: Emma Stone, La La Land Actress in a supporting role: Viola Davis, Fences Actor in a leading role: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Actor in a supporting role: Mahershala Ali...
...The clever set, co-devised by Rashid Rana and Murtaza Ali, is a three-cornered graph-paper video screen....
...Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Bernstein, who has been a proponent of splitting the company up should P&G’s continue to underperform, said he stood by that view....
...The desire to be present in every area is “like playing a game of Chinese chequers, not missing a trick”, says Mr Clark....
...The candidates are Helen Clark, Muhammad Ali Pate and Subhanu Saxena. All may draw harsh scrutiny from the US, its largest donor....
...The move towards private label could have a big impact on companies such as Procter & Gamble, Clorox, Kimberly-Clark, and Edgewell, says Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj....
...Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, could phase out the use of fossil fuels by the middle of this century, Ali al-Naimi, the kingdom’s oil minister, said on Thursday....
...Sadly timely, the book appeared months before Ali died. It shows him in his radical black separatist phase, which was downplayed in the mostly soft-focus wave of obituaries....
...We know that climate change policy will affect our future and we are working very hard to raise our resilience,” said Khalid Abuleif, Saudi Arabia’s lead climate negotiator and sustainability adviser to Ali...
...Additional reporting by Nejma Rondeleux in Ain Salah and Algiers, Pilita Clark in London, Simeon Kerr in Dubai and Erika Solomon in Beirut...
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