From Nicholas Hutton, London N1, UK ...

Time to dust off and bring back the Plaza and Louvre Accord playbooks. Time to look backwards rather than forward to solve old problems. As American baseball legend, Yogi Berra, might put it: “It’s ...

But presently, it is only wealthy landowners, often “incomers”, who can afford to engage in the expensive business of deer culling, fencing, research, planting and bringing in the necessary expertise ...

Monaco’s code (377) is distinct from France (33) and Italy (39); Gibraltar’s (350) is different from Spain (34) and the UK (44); and even the Palestinian territories dialling code (970) is detached ...

Before signing the trade embargo with Cuba on February 7 1962, President John F Kennedy managed to secure for himself 1,200 Cuban cigars, just hours ahead of the measures taking effect.

From Professor S Abraham Ravid, Visiting Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, US; and The Sy Syms Professor of Finance, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, US ...