The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday announced that four US Embassy officials would be expelled from Russia for activities “incompatible with diplomatic status,” a euphemism for espionage. The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday announced that four US Embassy officials would be expelled from Russia for activities “incompatible with diplomatic status,” a euphemism for espionage.
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That left shares in Britain’s biggest radio group, which has 19 analogue and 30 digital radio licences, at levels last seen in early 1999 and down more than 60 per cent from the highs of the TMT boom a year ago.Stock in rival radio firm GWR Group down 16 per cent to 422.5p, while Chrysalis [...]

The venue’s artistic director, Isaak Karabtchevsky, said recently: “I was there when the opera [house] burnt down and each year that passes I am even less optimistic about the reopening. I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime.”Countess Barbara di Valmarana, president of the Friends of La Fenice, said: “We visited the building site [...]

There were lines of treadmills, Nordic tracks and step machines with every possible accoutrement. You could hardly recognise the exercise bikes; partly because they were dwarfed by the walking machines, and partly because, most of them just did not look like bikes.The originator of this expedition – Mister Dejevsky, in case you had forgotten – [...]