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Tag: England

How an Academic Uncovered One of the Biggest Museum Heists of All Time
24Oct By adminNo Comments
World

How an Academic Uncovered One of the Biggest Museum Heists of All Time

By Max Colchester | Photography by Felix Odell for WSJ. Magazine ITTAI GRADEL, an academic–turned–gem dealer in Denmark, was trawling eBay a decade ago when he thought he had stumbled across a gold mine.On his screen, Gradel saw a seller called Sultan1966 advertising a glass gem from the 19th century. Gradel immediately recognized it as something much more valuable: an agate Roman Medusa cameo from the second century, featuring the mythical Gorgon with snakes as hair. He snapped it up for £15 plus postage, then turned around and sold it to a collector for a couple of thousand pounds. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Match Preview – England vs South Africa, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 20th Match
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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Match Preview – England vs South Africa, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023/24, 20th Match

Big pictureHello darkness, my old friend. I'm coming to talk with one of you again. But which one will it be?Will it be England, the reigning world champions across 50- and 20-overs, whose quest for a third global title in four years is in danger of dissolving in a bisque of self-doubt? Instead of cementing a legacy to rival the great Australian team of the turn of the millennium, their humiliating losses to New Zealand and Afghanistan are threatening to cast England's narrative back into their World Cup dark ages of the 1990s and 2000s, to make that 2015-19 resurgence seem more like a mirage than a miracle.Or will it be South Africa… the calmest, most serene force in the competition for two heady performances, as a team seemingly without baggage cruised past Australia and Sri Lanka with ...
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Manchester United Shareholders May Have Scored After All
18Oct By adminNo Comments
Money

Manchester United Shareholders May Have Scored After All

Manchester United shareholders are acting like despondent soccer fans after video-refereeing technology disallows a goal. Yet they might still win the match.The British soccer club’s publicly traded Class A shares have lost roughly 10% of their value since the weekend, when it was widely reported that British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe is in talks to buy a 25% stake through his petrochemical company Ineos. The other bidder, Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad al-Thani, chairman of Qatar Islamic Bank, dropped out.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trader’s Case Tests DOJ’s Policing of Global Currency Market
15Oct By adminNo Comments
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Trader’s Case Tests DOJ’s Policing of Global Currency Market

A London hedge fund’s big bet on the outcome of a South African party’s leadership vote earned it more than $20 million. Six years later, the trader who placed the wager faces criminal charges in Manhattan, where prosecutors claim he manipulated the foreign-exchange market to achieve his payday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Jews Fear Rising Threats: ‘We’ve Seen This Film’
13Oct By adminNo Comments
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Jews Fear Rising Threats: ‘We’ve Seen This Film’

Listen to article(2 minutes)The Hamas attack that killed at least 1,300 people in Israel has left Jewish communities around the world on edge, as Jews confront rising vitriol, threats and violence.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Match Preview – India vs England, ICC Cricket World Cup Warm-up Matches 2023/24, Warm-up
1Oct By adminNo Comments
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Match Preview – India vs England, ICC Cricket World Cup Warm-up Matches 2023/24, Warm-up

Prior to that, England were the only side to beat India in the league stage of the 2019 ODI World Cup, after which India jettisoned their two-wristspinner strategy. As it turns out, only one of them, Kuldeep Yadav, has made it to this World Cup, but he has done so after two years in the wilderness, after going back to the drawing board, working on his run-up and rhythm, and rediscovering his verve to become one of India's trump cards.
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Match Preview – England vs Ireland, Ireland in England 2023, 1st ODI
19Sep By adminNo Comments
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Match Preview – England vs Ireland, Ireland in England 2023, 1st ODI

Big picture: Back to the margins It's no slight on the visitors, honest. But here we are again, all the same. Just as Ireland opened England's international season at Lord's back in June, with a contest so translucent that both teams found themselves peering straight through it towards more pressing matters beyond, so they have returned at this fag-end of the English summer, with the narrative once again marching off into the middle distance.Back in June, the focus for the two squads was England's Ashes bid on the one hand, and Ireland's 50-over World Cup qualification campaign on the other (and we'll come back to that sorry saga in a moment). Now? It's just cricket for the sake of cricket.Three ODIs that, when they were first added to the schedule last year - before the BCCI had got roun...
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