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...This was one of the hits of 2019, a blazingly intelligent contemporary take (scripted by Martin Crimp) on Edmond Rostand’s 19th-century drama (Harold Pinter Theatre from February 3, then Glasgow and New...
...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...
...Gold rallied 1 per cent to $1,659.57 per troy ounce....
...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%....
...Finally, Troy Herion’s jaunty, literal and neatly conventional New York Symphony gave us stylised urban landscapes for the eyes, relatively easy, polite electronic jumbles for the ears....
...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...
...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...
...Byron King, Pittsburgh, PA, USA RD: Gold reserves are being exhausted....
...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....
...Martin Kusej’s production, starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, is pitilessly graphic, while Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw reveal the music’s terrible majesty....
...“Europe and the USA continue to treat Russia as a third-rate state”....
...Odysseus’s cunning is put to the test when he meets a group of raucous enemy asylum seekers from Troy....
...Michael V....
...Last year, Hytner began his first season at the National with Shakespeare’s Henry V....
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