If the vote is ‘No’, it is likely that they would convene an urgent gathering, probably in Washington.A ‘No’ would derail progress to a single European currency and could trigger the first realignment of the European exchange rate mechanism in five years.The embattled Italian lira would be almost certain to devalue against the German mark [...]

Eventually he shook off the slough of despond to test Bernard Lama from 20 yards and when he tried again from similar distance, the ground erupted in salute. From September, the six channels on BSkyB (Sky 1, Sky News, Sky Sports, the Movie Channel, Sky Movies Plus and Movies Gold) will be augmented with new [...]

He met Pasmore in 1952-53 and produced his first constructed relief, based on the golden section, in 1955.At that time, the constructed relief, not carved, nor modelled but assembled from machine-made materials, was the art form chosen by several members of the group, including Pasmore himself, Mary Martin and Anthony Hill, to whom Ernest was [...]

The modern French state did not impose, but now prohibits, the wearing of this distinctive garb.The wearing of the Star of David was imposed by decision of a hostile state. China, along with the four other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, attended the first session of the talks in Washington last April. [...]

He is deeply sensitive to the accusation that he is an opportunist. Particularly after Oleanna, Mamet’s biographers are likely to pounce on a background that seems to have been unsually marked by domestic violence. IN JUNE this year the local governments of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East and Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, held a [...]

The standard rhetoric of the IRA and Sinn Fein includes regular declarations that republicans are ready to talk to anyone at any time in the cause of lasting peace.Republicans are particularly sensitive to Mr Wilson, being aware that he is a living reminder of civilian casualties inflicted by the IRA. In their lavish New Oxford [...]