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Match Preview – West Indies vs England, England tour of West Indies 2023/24, 1st ODI

3Dec

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Match Preview – West Indies vs England, England tour of West Indies 2023/24, 1st ODI

Big picture - Caribbean rebootThe return to action hasn't been quite so jarringly immediate as it was for India and Australia in the wake of the World Cup final, or indeed for England's T20 World Cup winners in Australia last winter. And, let's face it, a four-island jaunt to the Caribbean in December is a reasonably palatable assignment after the indignities that preceded it.Nevertheless, it's still only three weeks since Jos Buttler's browbeaten squad limped back to Blighty with their World Cup dreams in tatters, and less than a fortnight since their four-year reign as 50-over world champions was formally ended in Ahmedabad. Whatever way you look at it, it seems a curious juncture in the global cycle to be undertaking another three-match ODI series.And to judge by the inexperienced squa...

Ferrovial to Sell Stake in London’s Heathrow Airport

29Nov

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Ferrovial to Sell Stake in London’s Heathrow Airport

Ferrovial is to sell its stake in London’s Heathrow Airport after striking a deal with a French private-equity group and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.The Spanish construction company said late on Tuesday that Ardian and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund would pay 2.37 billion pounds ($3.01 billion) to acquire its 25% stake in FGP Topco, the parent company of Heathrow Airport Holdings.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

14Nov

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Rishi Sunak Rearranges the Deck Chairs

United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet Monday, and Britons can be forgiven if they don’t learn his new ministers’ names. They might not be around long. Changing ministers at this late date is unlikely to change the bleak Tory prospects in an election expected next year.The reshuffle brought two major personnel changes. One is the firing of Suella Braverman as home secretary with responsibility for policing and immigration. Her sins are said to include publishing a controversial column last week in the Times of London (which shares ownership with this newspaper) criticizing pro-Palestine marches in London, and failing to stop illegal immigration across the English Channel.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b...

Match Preview – England vs Pakistan, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 44th Match

10Nov

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Match Preview – England vs Pakistan, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 44th Match

Big picture: Pakistan chasing the almost impossibleSo here we are: one last time in the group stages at Eden Gardens, and for both of these sides - almost certainly - one last time at this World Cup. As title defences go, it was an all-timer of a disaster for England, comparable not just with other cricketing fizzle-fests, but perhaps all sport: think France at the FIFA World Cup in 2002, or Lleyton Hewitt's first-round exit at Wimbledon the year later. England went nearly a month between their only two World Cup wins, with six defeats - many of them pastings - littering their campaign, one so poor it could yet knock them out of the 2025 Champions Trophy.England's brand of cricket has been high-risk-high-reward for about eight years now, and having enjoyed so much white-ball success with ...

Match Preview – England vs Netherlands, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 40th Match

7Nov

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Match Preview – England vs Netherlands, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 40th Match

Big picture - Total Cricket meets Total Wipeout"Champions of Europe… you'll never sing that!"That's right, here's one in the eye for all those glory-seekers in the upper echelons of the World Cup table, queuing up for their invite to the big dance in Ahmedabad in two weeks' time. There's a punier title up for grabs in Pune on Wednesday - so puny, in fact, that it's not even an official title, unlike the one that an England amateur team claimed at European Cricket Championships in Malaga last month. And look who they beat by eight wickets in the final… none other than the defending champions, Netherlands! Call off this farce! Cricket's come home already!In all seriousness, England would be all too happy to walk away from this miserable campaign right now. Saturday's 33-run loss to Australi...

Tottenham Lost Its Star and Became the Premier League’s Surprise Contender

5Nov

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Tottenham Lost Its Star and Became the Premier League’s Surprise Contender

The best striker in Tottenham history looked up last weekend, 60 yards from goal with the ball at his feet, and liked what he saw. The goalkeeper was far off his line—it was an invitation to shoot. So Harry Kane launched an effort that traveled half the length of the field, looped over the keeper, and instantly in as one of the goals of the season. It was the kind of inspiration that had dazzled Tottenham fans for a decade. The trouble was that Tottenham’s greatest forward no longer plays for Tottenham—Kane was making long-distance magic these days for Bayern Munich.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Middle East War Becomes a European Crisis

31Oct

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Middle East War Becomes a European Crisis

LondonA war in the Middle East is a foreign-policy crisis for the U.S., but it is a domestic crisis for Europe. The streets of London, Paris and Berlin are blocked by marchers calling for jihad. In Brussels, the European Union’s capital, an international soccer match was halted after a Tunisian asylum seeker shot two Swedish fans on their way to the game. Synagogues and Jewish schools are vandalized, and Jews physically assaulted. Police are outnumbered in the streets, undermined by legal activists, and supported only equivocally by politicians.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

‘Frans Hals’ Review: A Painter’s Soaring Portraiture

28Oct

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‘Frans Hals’ Review: A Painter’s Soaring Portraiture

LondonFollowing on the heels of last spring’s Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, “Frans Hals” at the National Gallery here celebrates another Dutch artist (1582/84-1666) whose critically neglected work was rediscovered by 19th-century French scholars and painters. Together with Rembrandt, the triumvirate would define Golden Age painting in the Netherlands. This show of 51 paintings, organized by Bart Cornelis, the museum’s curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings 1600-1800, is the first major exhibition devoted to the artist in decades. Though not as well-known as the art of his two contemporaries, Hals’s incomparable work—its unfeigned naturalism, ebullient brushwork and sanguine vision of quotidian life in the 17th-century Dutch republic—would captivate Courbet, Manet, Van Gogh and other mo...

Jury Convicts Hedge-Fund Manager Accused of Rigging Foreign-Exchange Market

25Oct

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Jury Convicts Hedge-Fund Manager Accused of Rigging Foreign-Exchange Market

Updated Oct. 25, 2023 4:12 pm ETA London hedge-fund manager accused of manipulating the foreign-exchange market was convicted Wednesday of fraud in a trial that opened a window into a complex corner of the global currency-trading business.A federal jury in Manhattan deliberated for less than a day before finding Neil Phillips guilty of commodities fraud. The jury acquitted Phillips, the former chief investment officer of Glen Point Capital, of a separate conspiracy charge.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Match Preview – England vs Sri Lanka, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 25th Match

25Oct

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Match Preview – England vs Sri Lanka, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 25th Match

Big picture: Stragglers in desperate search for pointsSo, how's that whole "attacking champions" thing working out? Jos Buttler may always regret saying England wouldn't be "trying to defend anything" out in India - a statement that appears to be coming true uncomfortably quickly - but they are not quite at the point of no return, despite only being kept off the bottom of the table by Bangladesh's thumping defeat to South Africa on Tuesday. Cornered lions, anyone?Peeling off five wins in a row in order to reach 12 points - which would include beating the behemoth that is India on their own patch - looks a tall order, even before you account for the trough into which England's ODI form has fallen. But if the miracle resurrection is going to start somewhere then it will have to be in Bengal...