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...Ten days into a government crackdown on organised crime, Cesar Suarez fell victim to the mayhem that has engulfed Ecuador....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...She’s a three-time James Beard award finalist for outstanding pastry chef, and her style is playful and free. She tells us how to be creative when it comes to dessert. Want to stay in touch?...
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...Pair this camel Veronica Beard waistcoat with white, cream, black or red trousers for a sophisticated way to stay cool....
...Lilah speaks to James Beard Award-winning chef Pati Jinich about how diplomacy is sometimes better achieved through the language of food....
...Again triumphant astride his victim’s head, here he is outrageously sensual: the dead tyrant’s beard strokes the young man’s toes, the long wing of Goliath’s helmet curls featherlike up the inside of David...
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown. We walk to it often, meeting friends for summer swims and barbecues, or for fish and chips at The Anchor Inn....
...Germans account for the highest proportion of foreign purchasers in Mallorca, making up 56 per cent of E&V’s buyers last year....
...But just think of what followed their chosen span: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, wedding cake lawsuits, Brokeback Mountain, Ellen DeGeneres, Michael Sam and Obergefell v Hodges....
...McKellen recalls: “Ken asked me to be in his film Henry V and I couldn’t due to other things. But I thought ‘You cheeky young actor, how dare you make a film of Henry V? That’s been done.’...
...state-sponsored privateering, a system that allowed adventurers such as Henry Morgan to massacre their way to fortune and even political office under the time-honoured banner of “singeing King Philip’s beard...
...“If we play like we did against Germany, we can reach the final,” said Sergio Lira, a local council worker watching a rerun of Portugal v Morocco as he ate lunch....
...Next up are matches against Mohamed Salah’s Egypt and Luis Suárez’s Uruguay. Stories you may have missed FT columnist Simon Kuper has arrived in Moscow, to find less than enthusiastic hosts....
...Morocco v Trump and co Today more than 200 member nations of Fifa, international football’s governing body, are set to vote to decide who will host the 2026 World Cup....
...Messi v the rest; Can Luis Suárez find redemption in Russia? Can one billionaire save Russian football? And for the less informed — A bluffers’ guide to football-speak....
...The head looks fairly unprepossessing, too: mid-forties, maybe, with a receding hairline, a scrawny beard and sharp, faintly wolfish features. His expression gives almost nothing away....
...I grew a beard when it was still virtually illegal. I fought hated Tory prime ministers from Thatcher to Gordon Brown. It was only a matter of time before I became a food radical....
...Other prisoners started winking at me as I walked along the corridor and I noticed they had started to grow beards too....
...Hugo Greenhalgh is the FT’s wealth correspondent Photograph: Essdras M Suarez/Getty Images...
...Trump v Clinton in the US on Monday. Trump v Carstens in Mexico on Thursday....
...“But people who grow beards and make love are supposed to move from innocence to wisdom,” he admonished....
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