And they’re off: Royal Ascot racegoers put on a patriotic show as iconic horse racing meet gets underway
On This Day : the birth of ‘Mr Five Per Cent’ Calouste Gulbenkian Opinion Today in 1869, the man who would go on to shape global oil markets was born in Turkey, writes Eliot Wilson Conflict in the Persian Gulf continues to seethe, threatening a global energy crisis. The Middle East is so synonymous with oil that it is easy to think the world was always this way, that [...]