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[ad_1] From the dock at Livorno, the slate-coloured sea looked menacing. Dark clouds were gathering and yet the locals filtering on to the rusty old Toremar ferry did not look…

[ad_1] Lviv, the old Habsburg city in the relatively peaceful west of Ukraine, has become a kind of Casablanca, a hub for diplomats, journalists, refugees and foreign volunteer fighters. In…

[ad_1] If Elon Musk thought that casting himself as Twitter’s saviour would win widespread backing for his $43bn hostile takeover bid, he was in for a rude awakening.The world’s richest…

[ad_1] The cocktail trolley is back in vogue. Dolce & Gabbana has included one as part of its first homewares line. Meanwhile at the luxury design ecommerce site 1stdibs, sales…

[ad_1] George Osborne is advising Todd Boehly’s bid to buy Chelsea Football Club from sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, as the auction enters its final stages, according to people with…

[ad_1] British households face paying tens of millions of pounds in administration costs for the government’s controversial scheme to reduce energy bills by £200 in October.The energy bills support scheme…

[ad_1] This year’s hawkish change in tack from central banks is close to ending the era of negative-yielding debt, shrinking the global tally of bonds with sub-zero yields by $11tn.Bond…

[ad_1] Olga Rudenko, editor of The Kyiv Independent, has had a punishing six weeks. Faced with the prospect of trying to run her publication from a bomb shelter with unreliable…

[ad_1] Covid-19 cases are once more on the rise in the US, but this time there is little impetus for new restrictions or funding to help combat them.The number of…

[ad_1] The industrial zone and sprawling lorry park in the small Dutch town of Oss give almost no indication of the opulent yachts being built inside nine covered dockside sheds,…