Hints and tips:
...Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí’s craggily Gothic Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is studded with broken pottery....
...Her response was to create eight replicas of those same vessels, which are arranged on the shelves behind us....
...on billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...Boring architecture is, he suggests, stressing us out. But what, exactly, is boring architecture?...
...Ukraine began the switch to Nato-standard artillery last summer with the first deliveries of US howitzers....
...There is still a murmuration over the road bridge of Mérida, a city in western Spain littered with magnificent Roman architecture....
...I Acquisition Corp, highlighting the Catalan football club’s hunt for digital revenues. Does the Commonwealth Games have a future?...
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to the team’s oligarch owner Roman Abramovich being sanctioned by the UK government....
...“It is important to show the Russian leadership who expect us to be scared of their [nuclear] blackmail.. it would be a very powerful message that we don’t care.”...
...“There was an overriding feeling for all of us that continuing and showing was the right thing to do, and to honour Her Majesty in some way felt absolutely appropriate.”...
...The bulk of Luhansk territory seized by Russia was taken soon after the invasion began in February, said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank....
...In time, the long-range rockets that Ukraine has repeatedly asked for and that have been promised by the US and UK will arrive at the frontlines and be manned by Ukrainian troops trained to use them....
...Oleksandr V Danylyuk, a defence and intelligence adviser to the Ukrainian government, said Russia had intensified its artillery strikes on the front lines to try to exhaust Ukraine’s supplies....
...Reports of basic supplies running low failed to worry us: we had our own flour, our homegrown veg, a freezer full of food....
...“They understand they are heading toward us.”...
...Discussions included the reversal of Roe v Wade, there was a talk on stress and gut health and a sound bath was held. There was also yoga, snorkelling and a shamanic blessing....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...science at Northwestern University in the US....
...The solo, Impronta by Catalan dancemaker Maria Rovira (the only non-Cuban creative in the line-up), does little more than remind us of Crespo’s startling flexibility but this is a dancer who invariably transcends...
...In the lesser-known polychrome terracotta “Virgin and Child”, the half-figures — the infant clinging to Mary’s neck, turning his back on us or restlessly trying to break away — are mesmerisingly lifelike...
...But the beginning of this month saw the unveiling of something rather different — an injection of Roman high life on the Avenue Georges V in the form of the new Bulgari Hotel Paris....
...Emperor Charles V, by 1521 the lord of a transcontinental realm that stretched from Mexico through Spain and Italy to Austria and the Netherlands....
...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
International Edition