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World Cup 2023 top run-scorers: Virat Kohli climbs to 1st position as Shreyas Iyer enters top 10; check others on list Jaishankar and his wife, Kyoko Jaishankar also offered prayers at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Neasden Temple) in London during his UK visit. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is Europe's first authentic and traditionally built Hindu temple. Taking to his official handle on X, EAM Jaishankar shared details about his meeting with the UK PM.

London | There are many ways to measure the pandemic’s disappearance into the rear vision mirror. One prime indicator, in the past six months, has been the heavy traffic in business class on QF1, the flight to London.

Fear: An Alternative History of the World. By Robert Peckham. Profile Books; 448 pages; £25 One of the bestselling books of all time was about witches.

Follow Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates here The march on Saturday generated concern because it coincided with Armistice Day. This day commemorates the end of fighting in World War I in 1918 -- and political criticisms about the policing operation. Several social media users posted videos showing hundreds of people "literally storming the Cenotaph on Armistice Day".

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Spirits and beer giant Diageo saw billions wiped off its market value on Friday after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business in Latin America and the Caribbean was hitting sales and potential profits

leather jacket worn by the 'King of Pop,' Michael Jackson, in the 1980s was bought for a whopping £250,000 ($306,000). Earlier, the black-and-white jacket worn by the famous star was expected to sell for between £200,000 and £400,000 at the auction. Along with an Amy Winehouse hairpiece and a George Michael jacket, the item was one of over 200 pieces of music memorabilia that were auctioned off in London on Friday. Apart from Jackson's jacket, pieces associated with other legendary singers and artists, including David Bowie, Oasis, and The Beatles, also went under the hammer.

BJP leader Ajatshatru Singh, the grandson of the last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, on Saturday said people from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are going to organise a conference in Geneva in March to highlight their plight. Talking to reporters here on his return from London, where he celebrated Jammu and Kashmir's accession day on October 26 as a special invitee to the UK Parliament's House of Commons, he said he met a large number of people from PoK there.

China continues to battle its property demons while it is Italy's turn to be in the eye of the ratings agencies. Here is your week-ahead primer from Lewis Krauskopf in New York, Kevin Buckland in Tokyo, Danilo Masoni in Milan and Alun John and Dhara Ranasinghe in London. 1/ INFLATION WATCH A slew of Federal Reserve policymakers including boss Jerome Powell say they are still not sure that rates are high enough to finish the battle with inflation. Traders, anticipating roughly three quarter-point Fed rate cuts next year, will now turn their attention to Tuesday's inflation data to confirm their view on the outlook. The October consumer price index is expected to have climbed 0.1% on a monthly basis, according to a Reuters poll. September's CPI rose 0.4% on a surprise surge in rental costs, but also showed a moderation in underlying inflation pressures. A sharper cooling could fan the peak rate talk, fuelled by October's employment report, which pointed to an easing in labor markets. A federal government shutdown meanwhile looms if lawmakers in Washington are unable to pass a measure to at least temporarily fund operations before a Nov.

A plane that took off from London Stansted Airport in the U.K. was forced to turn around after only half an hour in the air after a crew member noticed one of the cabin windows was damaged.

Suella Braverman, after she published an inflammatory article attacking the police's handling of a planned pro-Palestinian march. Braverman, the home secretary responsible for policing and national security, has a long history of making controversial statements that have alienated her more moderate colleagues. In an opinion piece published ahead of a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday, Braverman accused the police of exhibiting a "double standard" in the way they treat protests, notably pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

pollution. The distinction has been in the ability to respond to it. The scale of damage to quality of life and life itself in our dirty cities is hard to exaggerate.

King Charles III has immersed himself in London’s vibrant Korean scene before the state visit later this month of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol

Citadel Securities, Ken Griffin’s market maker and trading firm that likes to hire from Goldman Sachs and pays interns $52k for a summer internship, has expanded its team in London – courtesy of Europe’s most ambitious investment bank, BNP Paribas.

In these dark days for investment bank recruitment, when not much is occurring and the bedding down of Credit Suisse stragglers is the main event, there might be a glimmer of hope for London recruiters in 2024. — The bonus cap and its elimination. Many banks in London are now free to pay bigger bonuses and lower salaries for the first time in eight years. Does this mean they'll hire new senior people next year, simply in order to re-rate compensation away from high fixed costs and towards flexible bonuses instead?

Goldman Sachs promoted some new managing directors on Friday. In a reminder that Goldman Sachs isn't just an investment bank and trading business nowadays, fewer than half (47%) of the 608 lucky new MDs work in the banking and markets business. Another 25% are Goldman's new preferred places of asset and wealth management. The remainder are dotted across Goldman's remaining divisions.

Who received the $500m of retention bonuses that UBS paid to retain «key» Credit Suisse staff? Was it the 20 investment bankers that Financial News says UBS hired from Credit Suisse in London? Not all of them; we've spoken to MDs who didn't get them. Was it the senior technology staff who left anyway? Apparently not.

Payments infrastructure business Cuscal, which was vying to be 2023’s second-biggest IPO after Redox, has deferred its run at the ASX boards.

TOKYO (Reuters) -France's Renault (EPA:RENA) has cut its stake in Nissan (OTC:NSANY) to 15% from about 43% by placing 28.4% of the Japanese automaker in a French trust, the companies said in an alliance statement, putting them on equal footing.

Since it was founded in 2010, WeWork has not once turned a profit. For years its cash-torching ways went unchallenged, thanks to the reality-distorting powers of its flamboyant founder, Adam Neumann, who succeeded in convincing investors, most notably SoftBank, that it was not an office-rental business but a zippy tech firm on a mission to “elevate the world’s consciousness". At the height of the silliness in early 2019, in the lead-up to an initial public offering (IPO), the company was valued at $47bn.