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...One of the stars alongside Tom Cruise in this year’s box office hit Top Gun: Maverick is the hypersonic fighter jet SR-72 Darkstar....
...A water-speckled cast of metamorphosing characters star in his “Odyssey 11” and “Calypso”....
...Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, has been nominated to join the board of Russian energy group Gazprom, fuelling scrutiny of his close links to the Kremlin-controlled company....
...Probably not forever, according to several analysts, given the company’s star status....
...In reality, that protection seldom reaches behind the doors of town houses, five-star hotel rooms and country estates, where workers fall victim to abuse....
...Realty to buy InterXion in $8.4 billion deal (Reuters) Schroders offloads stake in UK investment boutique RWC (FT) US coal miner Murray Energy files for bankruptcy (FT) Harry Potter publisher caught...
...A company that has raised more than $100m for its attempt to turn fantasy into reality is now linked to a Hollywood star, to the widow of Apple’s founder and to a crisis engulfing Britain’s best-known fund...
...Iain Conn will step down as chief executive of Centrica, Britain’s biggest energy supplier, after next year’s annual meeting....
...Meanwhile, TPL has nominated retired four-star general Don Cook, who has served on six boards of directors....
...Born to Run turned Springsteen into a global star. It also enhanced Iovine’s reputation, and in the late 1970s he was asked to produce the album Easter for the Patti Smith Group....
...Smith & Nephew, the UK medical device maker and perennial M&A target, said its chief executive Olivier Bohuon will retire at the end of next year....
...Buoyed by cosmic energy, they fulfil Mohamedi’s ambition to “break the cycle of seeing [so that] magic and awareness arrives.”...
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...For China’s former solar star, there could be dark times ahead....
...Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried To Be a Pop Star, by Tracey Thorn, Virago, RRP£16.99 / $27.95 A Smiths fanatic in her youth, Everything But the Girl’s Thorn has written a better memoir than...
...An apt time to reboot Energy Flash: a new chapter covers the rise of EDM and dubstep....
...Yet I sell cars to the stars,” he tells her....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The talent show judge with the razor-sharp put downs, V-neck sweaters and high-waisted trousers capped weeks of wall-to-wall newspaper coverage of his ITV show The X Factor by taking on the UK Border Agency...
...In 1989 it acquired Columbia Pictures and its sister company, Tri-Star Pictures, for $3.4bn....
...They tackle topics as varied as immigration, sustainable energy, high finance, internet-fuelled innovation and the impact of the unforeseeable....
...Habana, 22, is no languid stylist but a coiled streak of nervous energy, tensed and whippet-like with footballing skills as well as pace....
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