The Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney raised 79.8 million euros at an auction at Christie's in New York. It is a record amount for a work by a still living artist. The artwork was estimated in advance at more than 70 million euros.
If 'crazy things' do not happen, EU President Donald Tusk gets the 28 EU leaders to Brussels on Sunday, November 25 to mark a Brexit deal at the highest level. He said Thursday morning in a statement together with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, who handed Tusk a copy of the agreement in principle. According to Barnier, negotiations have entered 'a decisive phase'.
Again a member of the British cabinet of Theresa May has resigned from dissatisfaction with the Brexit agreement with the EU. After minister Brexit Dominic Raab and Deputy Minister Shailesh Vara, Minister Esther McVey announced her resignation on Thursday.
The British minister for the knitting of the Dominic Raab has resigned. He did not agree with the agreements on Northern Ireland in the agreement on the Brexit with the EU, he said on Thursday.
A first member of the British cabinet of Theresa May has resigned in connection with the agreement on the brexit. Shailesh Vara, deputy minister of Northern Irish affairs, announced his departure Thursday according to British media.
Thieves have stolen a large gorilla statue from a luxury hotel in London. The two perpetrators unscrewed the image under the nose of a witness. They then switched on helpful construction workers to get the picture down, says the owner of the hotel against British media.
The EU and the United Kingdom have agreed on the conditions for the departure of the British from the EU. The European Commission has released the text of the 585-page agreement in principle, immediately after Prime Minister Theresa May in London announced that her cabinet is supporting the preliminary agreement and a declaration on the future relationship.
Principally opposition to the Brexit agreement and personal ambitions are central this afternoon when British Prime Minister Theresa presides over the most important government meeting in her reign. In the face of these personal impulses, May will hamper an elusive phenomenon for most British politicians: the country's interests.
If the Brexit deal continues, the British will remain- at least temporarily- part of the European customs union. What does that actually mean? 'Entrepreneurs still have to keep in mind that it can be a problem.'
It seems that the agreement on the Brexit, which the British Cabinet is discussing on Wednesday, is that Northern Ireland remains in the EU and thus becomes a sort of separate from the United Kingdom. That said the leader of the Irish party DUP, Arlene Foster based on draft texts. Comments from other Northern Irish politicians also point to this, although the content of the agreement is not yet known.
For months, the British have been able to stumble over their favorite Brexit model, but now they have to show the back of their tongue. After all, the negotiators are out. An agreement of around 500 pages has been concluded in Brussels describing an orderly departure from the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Never again Dire Straits for Mark Knopfler, now knows every fan of the British super group. Solo, however, the 69-year-old Briton does not know how to stop. Following the release of his eighth album Down the road wherever this Friday we were allowed to visit his own London Grove Studios.
A British couple who had named his child after Adolf Hitler was found guilty of membership of the National Action terror group by a court on Monday. That neo-Nazi group was banned in 2016 after the members had celebrated the murder of MP Jo Cox (Labor) by a Nazi veteran.
The spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May has denied statements that several pro-EU members of the British cabinet have threatened to resign because they are not confident about the progress of the Brexit negotiations. He thus contradicts an allegation from former Minister of Education and party colleague of May, Justine Greening.
Whales had a lot of stress during the Second World War. This is probably due to sea battles and the exploding of bombs and mines underwater. American and British scientists write that in the journal Nature Communications.
A pilot with fear of flying has been falsely dismissed by his employer. He has to go back to work.
Both within her own party and from the opposition, the pressure is on the British Prime Minister Theresa May not to vote on the Brexit plans of her government. The parties want them to adapt the brexit proposal to their wishes.
The homosexual man who, through a women's profile on Tinder, was able to get four men in bed, gets a long-term prison sentence. His victims only learned that he was a man when they were blindfolded during sex- or, in one case, with a second appointment.
The British vice-minister Jo Johnson van Transport, like his brother Boris, is giving in to dissatisfaction with the Brexit negotiations. He announced on Friday that he is stepping down because he can not support the agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May wants to conclude with the European Union.
If there is no agreement on the brexit, the European Union wants to set a customs border in the Irish Sea, between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. For example, Northern Ireland can remain part of the internal market and customs union and the land border with EU member Ireland can remain open. The Times reports this on the basis of a letter from the British Prime Minister Theresa May who has seen the newspaper.
Moscow has a square named after former British double-spy Kim Philby. The latter passed to the Soviet Union in 1963 and died in 1988. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobjanin, has, according to the media, by decree ordered the name change of a crossroads in the southwest of the Russian capital, where the headquarters is also from the foreign intelligence service.
The operation could thus serve as fabric for a new season of the TV series Homeland of Fauda. After the attacks on bars, restaurants and pop stage Bataclan in 2015, the French intelligence service set up a 'hit list' with seven terrorists who are seen as the brains behind these attacks, killing 130 people. Paris called in the help of American, British and even Russian and Chinese colleagues, who cooperated between 2015 and 2017 in the execution of these targets.
Two months after his family thought he had buried him, Ajgali Soepjgaljev turned up with his family in Tomarli in Kazakhstan. Soepjgaljev was declared dead on the basis of DNA analysis of a severely burned body.
The British army opens the door wide for immigrants. It is planned that 1350 immigrants from the Commonwealth will be welcomed annually. In this way the shortage of soldiers in the British army must be discharged.
Nine British tourists were rescued from a burning yacht off the coast of the Thai island of Phuket. The fifteen-meter-long vessel was hit by lightning and caught fire, the BBC reports.
British customs officers are allowed to start their work in factories at that time in factories exporting to Ireland and in Irish and Northern Irish shops. In this way an official border between Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit can be prevented.
The 21-year-old British Shannon was almost killed at the beginning of this year by an assassination attempt by her adulterous husband. He stabbed the woman 46 times, with four of her organs being pierced. Yet she has already forgiven his deed, and she looks forward to a future together when he is released again.
The very old Brit who lay on the roof of his house in Bigbury-on-Sea for three days died in the hospital. That is what the police have announced.
Britain and the EU would have reached a secret agreement stating that Britain remains part of the Customs Union after the Brexit. This would keep the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland open and one of the biggest obstacles in the Brexit negotiations would be removed.
Police and fire brigade in London have been plucked in large numbers to the Sony headquarters in the British capital. In the building on Derry Street, a man with a machete would have walked around, injuring at least two people.
