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...Farms, factories and buildings were damaged, but each time he reinvested....
...Such is the demand that one Bangkok to Tel Aviv flight last week on El Al, the national carrier, allowed overflow passengers to sit on the floors and aisles....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...Across the invisible border, the Malian and Burkinabe states barely function, the general says. Swaths of territory have been overrun by terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda and Islamic State....
...There were electrical fires. Some people died in some of those fires. So we were able to work with the mayor, work with some of our partners, and bring capital into that community....
...To take advantage of the landscape we’ll get up early and hike in the Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve....
...In a report last year, Greenpeace, the environmental pressure group, said seven out of 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were affected by haze generated by fires in Indonesia...
...Sayida Ounissi As Tunisia’s secretary of state for vocational training, 32-year-old Ounissi has made waves since she was elected in 2014....
...“We used to farm — beans, maize, even rice — and keep livestock....
...With “Everybody Loves Bacon” as his campaign slogan, the former US Air Force general’s band of clean-cut, young and overwhelmingly white volunteers is doing everything it can to fire up a Latino crowd that...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Unsurprisingly, Greenspan et al believe China’s integration of its low-cost workforce and state-subsidised capital into the world economy over the past two decades has depressed prices everywhere....
...What it describes is the state of the (male) city worker who is left behind while his wife and children spend August at the beach....
...Four teams were credibly threatening boycotts and CarMax, Mercedes and State Farm insurance had pulled their ads....
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...The young, though, get a brief lease of life and freedom even in Saudi Arabia....
...He leaves his farm to the emperor....
...The Sydney art scene fizzed with arguments about what form Australian art should take, as arch-conservatives such as the figurative artist Norman Lindsay railed against Picasso, Matisse et al....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Rather, they betoken almost the exact opposite: the waning of the nation-state. Mas et al aim to ditch old redundant nation-states in order to create new redundant nation-states....
...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...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...
...The litany of dream-turned-to-nightmare events – Altamont, Manson, assassinations et al – had knocked the stuffing out of the dreamy idealists who had been schooled in the church of Dylan and dope....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
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