Hints and tips:
...A year later it was promoted to the lucrative Premier League and Sawiris has since expanded his stable of sports assets under his and Edens’ V Sports, including a stake in Portuguese club Vitória....
...The opening game between hosts Qatar and Ecuador began with a packed crowd inside al-Bayt stadium, a new venue in the middle of the desert that looks like a tent and can hold about 60,000 spectators....
...It’s not for the general populace.” But the appeal is increasing for a wider audience....
...Viewership of women's sport trails that of male counterparts. Ergo lower rights fees from broadcasters. Ergo lower spending on advertising. Et cetera, ad nauseam....
...like Kanye West and Beyoncé....
...It is against this background that Hopp et al have raised their heads above the parapet....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Isis leader, and the group’s media outlets have repeatedly called for attacks on Turkey....
...The south-west is a region of rugby. But we unite around sports events.”...
...al didn’t get bailed out....
...Business pitch Europe’s largest sports conference, the Sports Business Summit, is in Düsseldorf with more than 1,600 participants and 180 speakers (to February 4)....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...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...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...I want to stick on the general topic of health care, but ask a very specific question....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...Will the sweep of history come to view it, along with all the Bugatti Veyrons, Ferrari 599s, Porsche 997 Turbos, Lamborghinis et al as the four-wheeled equivalent of diplodocus and his chums?...
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...Ponting, Warne et al may have quietly recognised that they’re on to a loser and come round to thinking that it’s time again to start being nice....
...I arrive at Mona Makram Ebeid’s regal apartment on time and wait patiently on the doorstep, under the solicitous eye of a boy servant, until the newly appointed secretary general of Al-Ghad makes her appearance...
...“Al-Qaeda needs to have such situations for propaganda purposes....
...al v....
International Edition