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By PAUL LEVY © The Royal Opera/ Catherine Ashmore Íride Martínez as Norina and Jacques Imbrailo as Doctor Malatesta. London: With budget cuts looming, both the Royal Opera and English National Opera are relying this season on their one sure-fire hit director, Sir Jonathan Miller. From October to January, the ENO will give no fewer [...]
Ian Robertson, Board Member for Sales and Marketing of BMW AG and Chairman of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd, arrived in Abu Dhabi yesterday to attend the opening of the world’s largest BMW Group showroom facility in the Umm Al Nar area of the UAE’s capital. The showroom was formally inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Nahyan [...]
By MEIR STATMAN What was I thinking? If there’s one question that investors have asked themselves over the past year and a half, it’s that one. If only I had acted differently, they say. If only, if only, if only. The Journal Report See the complete Your Money Matters report. Yet here’s the problem: While [...]
It takes a brave, dedicated and vocal person to bring about change. This month our community reporters gave their time to making their communities a better place. Whether it was by raising awareness about the lack of worker safety, promoting youth enterprise or giving back to the less fortunate, they showed us that they are [...]
Abu Dhabi: An expatriate couple has filed a police report saying their 16-year-old daughter of Chinese origin went missing on Thursday night in the capital. Li Xue, an eighth grade pupil at Emirates Private School, was last seen getting into a taxi late on Thursday near Shakespeare Restaurant on Muroor Street near her apartment, Zhu Chunyan, [...]
Por Dana Cimilluca, DAVID ENRICH e SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ, de Londres O setor de bancos de investimento, notoriamente propenso a ciclos de contratação e demissão durante as altas e baixas da economia, está no meio de um recuo que pode ser mais profundo. Enlarge Image Close Agence France-Presse/Getty Images O anúncio ontem de que o [...]
CNN’s Jethro Mullen, Kevin Flower, Harmeet Singh and Josh Levs contributed to this report.
The Kingdom of Morocco is the most westerly of the North African countries known as the Maghreb. Strategically situated with both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, but with a rugged mountainous interior, it stayed independent for centuries while developing a rich culture blended from Arab, Berber, European and African influences. Morocco was a French protectorate from [...]
By JOEL WEICKGENANT Amsterdam: Great figures in history always leave in their wake a changed world and a legacy mixed of myth and reality. And perhaps no figure in classical history left a bigger stamp than Alexander the Great. His 11-year, 23,480-kilometer military campaign in the fourth century B.C. established Hellenistic values and aesthetics across [...]