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...I’m really not fussed that social distancing measures have caused spectators to be banned from the annual fireworks display on the Embankment in London this year....
...The New Year in Hong Kong began with a bang — not the usual firework display, which the government cancelled, but the sound of police firing tear gas canisters....
...display that took him two days to finish....
...Each has been decorated with a distinctive pattern — from fireworks to doves — and is inscribed with the year of its creation....
...The assailant ploughed along the city’s seafront to hit as many pedestrians who had gathered to watch a firework display as possible. Children are among the casualties, said Mr Hollande....
...For an annual developer conference not known for its fireworks, there have been plenty of tech pyrotechnics at Microsoft’s Build in San Francisco this week....
...Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the United States’ national anthem, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor will host tall ships, fireworks displays, concerts, historic tours and other events...
...The MLS has less tribalism than English football but it has deliberately marketed itself to families with razzmatazz: Los Angeles Galaxy games often end with a fireworks display....
...Adam, 10, has just managed to programme his computer to display a large and violent firework explosion, and is pleased with himself....
...On New Years Eve one of the biggest tourist initiatives in Irish history will begin with a huge fireworks display in Dublin, marking a year-long invitation to people with Irish connections to visit the country...
...“I think Facebook’s IPO will be a fireworks display of success,” said David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect. SharesPost and Facebook all declined to comment....
...Shanghai on Tuesday by turning the waterfront into a vast Oreo advertisement, painting the landmark Oriental Pearl Tower Oreo blue, plastering skyscrapers with multi-storey neon Oreo adverts and staging fireworks...
...Pyrotecnico, the company that had hired him to produce the Annapolis display, had acquired the firework from China National Fireworks....
...So no one was expecting fireworks as Yahoo reported its latest results on Tuesday....
...And to inject a bit of the razzmatazz from last year’s Olympics, Zhang Yimou, the film director who put on the opening ceremony at the Games, has been brought in to organise a firework display....
...Only hours after a firework display marked the Johannesburg final of India’s glitzy Premier League cricket competition, India and South Africa managed to conjure up some impressive corporate pyrotechnics...
...With all the results now in – including this week’s fireworks display from Merrill Lynch – the five big Wall Street banks managed a combined profit slump of more than 60 per cent compared with 2006....
...Current neighbours say the family’s annual fireworks party outstrips the town’s official bonfire night event. Some of the wine comes from the vineyard on his 1,700-acre Tuscan estate....
...Even Christian Senn’s Astolfo had his share of fireworks....
...But there was more: several bars, a hog roast, an artificial beach and a fireworks display. And, as a climax, a private performance by Sir Tom Jones....
...As retail spaces become more experiential, product displays become more important ExPros....
...Expect fireworks. observer@ft.com...
...The lavish after-dinner display laid on at their suburban villa lit up the skies over Athens....
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