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...The Sawiris, who are Coptic Christians, were targeted with tax grabs and a travel ban under former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who swept to power in 2012 in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings but...
...Anna Wintour chose him to shoot her first American Vogue cover in 1988; featuring a model in a Christian Lacroix jacket and jeans, it was considered a revolutionary shift away from the strictures of glamour...
...Wilson fortuitously died in 1869 and was succeeded by his more amenable brother, who agreed to sell the heath to the Metropolitan Board of Works....
...Additional reporting by Christian Shepherd...
...Christian Shepherd 20....
...“Lunch is still an important moment for the French,” says Thierry Gardinier, who runs the Gardinier & Fils restaurant group with his two brothers....
...It has an incredible souk and the most extraordinary mosque built on a Roman Christian site....
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...By Monday FCA unveiled a proposed €32.6bn all-share merger in a deal that would reshape the global automotive industry. Talk about 0 to 60 in three point five....
...Christian Gnass, its chief executive, says domestic revenues now account for less than two-thirds of the total....
...To read the news outside Russia, you’d think that any political jokes would fall flat in Moscow and that theatre listings must be full of one-man shows extolling the greatness of one V Putin....
...This is an edited extract from ‘Magical Objects’ by Hilary Davidson, which appears in ‘Shoes: Pleasure and Pain’, published by the V&A....
...His Sunday morning session, which begins as bells ring out at a Christian church opposite ChemChina’s Beijing headquarters, lasts four hours including a late lunch of spicy beef noodles....
...My brother and my friends all said that’s what they felt I was doing. So, that’s how I started making art....
...“We band of brothers, for he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother”!...
...asked Harry Warner, one of the Warner Brothers in 1927....
...The title gives away the links to the Christian myth but the author mixes in many other traditions and languages....
...Thor is billed as the latest film from “the studio that brought you Iron Man”, but it is also the latest film from the director who brought you Henry V and Hamlet....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...Italy V Ireland....
...Clive James is the author of ‘The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V’ (Picador)...
...Christian iconography is striking by its absence, even on “birth trays”, where a nativity scene might be expected....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Home to Porsche and Daimler, it has been hit hard by the automotive crisis....
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