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...ITV has sold its 50 per cent stake in BritBox International, a subscription streaming service that broadcasts shows such as Death in Paradise and Vera in the US, to BBC Studios for £255mn....
...In summer, a sunburn-soothing aloe vera gel. There are elderberry and rosehip syrups to support immunity, and warming remedies made from ginger root, turmeric or pine needles in winter....
...At 22 per cent, its corporate tax rate is not much higher than Vietnam’s 20 per cent, notes Thomas Hansmann, head of operations practice for south-east Asia, at consultants McKinsey & Company....
...February 28 to May 26; further information and tickets here ‘Vera Molnár: Speak to the Eye’, Centre Pompidou A retrospective of the life and work of the Hungarian-born artist, who died aged 99 in December...
...Vera-Lotte Boecker brings dizzying heights and heart-stopping purity to the title role, but should not be singing it in the first place — it is a part for a heavier voice than hers....
...There was no shade among the aloe vera plantations and villages of Teide’s lower slopes....
...Separately, Kent Walker, Alphabet’s head of global affairs, held similar meetings with other high-level regulators, including Vera Jourova, the EU’s vice-president....
...Thomas Boué, director-general of Europe, Middle East and Africa policy at the Business Software Alliance, which represents companies including Microsoft, Oracle and IBM, said: “We are relieved that SCCs...
...The recommendations will be discussed in an event this afternoon featuring EU commissioner Paolo Gentiloni and MEP Pascal Canfin, in conversation with Pascal Lamy, Geneviève Pons and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin.Pillars...
...The United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank were born in 1944-5, not long after Vera Lynn sang about meeting again....
...Vera Baird, a former Labour MP, barrister and police and crime commissioner, is the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales....
...Close by, I find stores such as de Vera every bit as inspirational as any museum in terms of the objects and jewellery, and Michele Varian is an excellent resource for housewares....
....” — Thomas F Lane via email Insha Rahman “The director of strategic initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice, in coalition with other partners, led the fight to pass significant bail reforms in New...
...Thomas Harris and The Silence of the Lambs provide the prototype for Hoag’s new literary identity, and The Boy (Trapeze, £8.99) is as blood-drenched as any of her recent work....
...An expanse of torn, roughly stitched burlap beneath a sweep of radiant red, “Umbria Vera” (1952) evokes twilight over dry, lacerated earth....
...Many of the artists Kraus writes about live, she says, “off the metropolitan grid” (Vera in Mexico, Newby in Germany, Wells in New Zealand)....
...The book’s title tips a hat to Daniel Farson’s Soho in the Fifties, which chronicled, among others, Dylan Thomas. The great poet once remarked, deep in his cups, “Somebody’s boring me....
...“The code of conduct is now proving to be a valuable tool to tackle illegal content quickly and efficiently,” said Vera Jourova, EU commissioner for justice and consumer affairs....
...In the first half, as violinist Thomas Gould and pianist Ana-Maria Vera pass phrases back and forth, join, follow and complement one another, you notice more than ever the necessary musical sympathy between...
...Thomas Jay Ryan is a particular delight as the country doctor, Shpigelsky. Dinklage offers a sonorous speaking voice and fine physical bearing. classicstage.org...
...I’ve got my eye on Vera, pointed, ankle-strapped and blessed with a saucily low-cut toe....
...“An earthly paradise,” said the first Briton to arrive, Captain Thomas Cavendish, in 1588. The occasional cruise ship and adventurous yachtie still stop by....
...As in Thomas Mann’s novel on the theme, Lotte in Weimar (1939), there are moments in Douglas-Fairhurst’s narrative where the “original” is more than a little irritated by her depiction in the book....
...Vine Vera, another booming brand, offers more than 35 facial products but they don’t come cheap....
...We know that the war will make Thomas the poet he longed to be – but also that he will not survive it....
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