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...1,013: Bob Walker, Nuneaton Crossword 16,111: Magnus Chisholm, Ross-shire; J Verge , Dorset; Steven Smith, Switzerland Polymath 1,012: Brenda Joyce, Newcastle upon Tyne Crossword 16,105: David Keith Martin...
...Clown car maker Aston Martin is up nearly 9 per cent having got its 2019 figures wrong, because why not....
...Think of Turkey's Erdogan, Russia's Putin, and of course the USA's president Donald Trump. These all strut around the world stage projecting national power....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...No fascist USA.”...
...Priorities USA, an outside group supporting Hillary Clinton, released the first in a series of political attack ads that will air on television in the swing states of Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Nevada....
...(USA Today) Food for thought Asia’s alarming debt mountain Emerging Asia has witnessed the world’s sharpest increases in corporate and household debt since the global financial crisis....
...Liz Martins, UK economist, HSBC We see growth slowing from 2.1% to 1.2%....
...Richard Nixon appeared on the Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In show in 1968, and Bill Clinton played saxophone on television early in his presidency....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...However, the IRS challenged HP when the company tried to claim some of these benefits. On May 14 of this year, the US Tax Court sided with the IRS....
...Related links: US brokers’ wrongdoing to be permanently disclosed – Reuters The US v....
...In FCC v Fox Television Stations, the high court will rule on whether a policy governing the airing of “fleeting expletives” on broadcast television, enacted by the Federal Communications Commission, is...
...Environmental activists, frustrated by the failure of Congress or the Bush administration to act on global warming, brought the issue to the Supreme Court with the case Massachusetts v EPA....
...Language barrier The onward march of English as Europe’s unofficial working language continues apace, as the disgruntled German socialist Martin Schulz discovered this week in Moscow....
...This is already permitted in both Eire and the USA....
...The story is woven around the riots that erupted the night Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968....
...“Europe and the USA continue to treat Russia as a third-rate state”....
...Michael V....
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