Hints and tips:
...But these days, Villa is valued at more than £500mn after Sawiris and Edens agreed the sale of a minority stake in their V Sports vehicle to US investment firm Atairos in December last year....
...“Look at how the US and UK absolutely support the one-party state of Rwanda’s Paul Kagame. “Inside the country no one can tell the difference between the US position and the Chinese.”...
...When Sargon Yelda’s starchily correct Victor attempts to pat her on the head, you fully expect her to hurl him over the railings....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...But given our small military, only the Ukrainian army is now protecting us from Russian aggression. I will keep donating to them....
...He likes to relax with one-minute bullet games, and “adopted” a US speed expert by winning ten in a row. Puzzle 2444 Gao Rui v Victor Shen, Reykjavik 2015. Can you find White’s winning move?...
...Finally, Victor Mallet’s Big Read about the worrisomely good chance of a victory by Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential elections provided excellent analysis of why populism isn’t going away...
...“You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours,” Joe Biden said when he was declared the presidential election victor....
...In American terms a showdown between those two would be like Eugene v Debs, the turn of the century US socialist battling it out with JP Morgan, the king oligarch of his era (an analogy from David Rothkopf...
...“Those restaurants have started spending advertising dollars with us,” he said....
...Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, why have you asked us here today?...
...Sour grapes The FT’s James Politi and Victor Mallet take a look at the impact that US tariffs are having on a particularly loved import: French wine: “Donald [Trump], talk to me!...
...Newmont says it sends gold concentrate from CC&V to a mill in Nevada because it has a high sulphur content, which provides fuel for a processing technique called roasting....
...With just 50 days before US midterm elections, both parties have every incentive to escalate. Ms Ford will now come under an unimaginable level of scrutiny....
...Through history art has followed power — the victors have accrued the spoils....
...Whether in Victor Orban’s Hungary or Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, they target and intimidate independent media organisations that stand against them....
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM), which carries the name of the Texan televangelist who founded it, is a proud owner of a Gulfstream V private jet....
...Orban v Soros round 63 Hungary’s Victor Orban is not letting up on George Soros....
...Regardless of which vision of society emerges the victor on Sunday, the election has already seen an unprecedented series of twists, with the once frontrunner struck with an embezzlement scandal and the...
...Mohri finds inspiration everywhere; she wants us to discover it, too....
...But as the successes of George W Bush ought to remind us, inarticulacy does not necessarily hurt a candidate....
...(Washington Post, PLoS) Pharma battle Bain and Cinven were the victors in the €4.1bn battle for Stada, the German pharma group and maker of generic versions of drugs such as Viagra....
...“Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theatre by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing. This should not happen!”, Mr Trump tweeted....
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