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A new contemporary British novel exploring wealth, secrecy and personal reckoning has been published by Aberdeen-born author Richard Hood. Filthy Rich is the author’s debut work set in Shoreham-by-Sea and centres on financier Oliver Wright, whose high-pressure London career is abruptly interrupted by a heart attack. Forced to leave behind the world of corporate deals and excess, Wright retreats to the Sussex coast in an attempt to recover and reassess his life. “This book draws on my observations of ambition, risk and the human instinct to test boundaries. After facing serious health challenges, the idea of reinvention became deeply personal.…
Agents from the Homicide group of the Madrid Police Headquarters have arrested in Germany the alleged murderer of the Ukrainian lawyer Andrei Portonov, 52, shot at point-blank range at the exit of his daughters’ school in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) on May 21, 2025. Currently, the agents are carrying out searches in the city of Heinsberg, on the border with Holland, where the alleged hitman has been located. Agents from Homicide Group Five of the Madrid Police Headquarters have traveled to the German city where the arrest took place, with the collaboration of the Special Operations Group of the German…
Andrew Lownie wrote the book on the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor affair. In the interview he explains how the Queen failed and how a silence cartel protected the ex-prince for a long time. And he says when things get dangerous for Charles.
When Miriam Limbach looks out of her office window, she sees the office towers of numerous well-known international companies. The global HR Shared Service Center (SSC) of the pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer, which Limbach manages, is located in a large business park. However, Limbach’s office is not at the company’s German headquarters on the Rhine, but in the Costa Rican capital of San José.In recent years, Costa Rica has developed into one of the most attractive locations for covering business services for Spanish and English-speaking countries – or directly for the entire world. “Good infrastructure, tax advantages and well-trained…
Update from February 25, 2026: After long negotiations, the SPDU and CDU have agreed on a collective bargaining law. The draft from late summer was slightly revised again. The following still applies: A federal contract worth at least 50,000 euros may only be awarded to companies that pay their employees a standard wage. But more companies are excluded from this law than were planned in the original draft law. Originally, this regulation was not intended to apply to defense and security-specific contracts. According to the Tariff Compliance Act now passed by the coalition, the regulation does not apply to start-ups…
President Salvador Illa and Esquerra have visualized in the control session in Parliament the distance that separates them regarding the future processing of the budgets after the Republicans have warned that they will vote against if they do not comply with the transfer of the management of the personal income tax. The Government, for now in the minority on this matter, will approve on Friday the draft accounts that will begin its irreversible parliamentary processing. The plan will be debated in March in the chamber and there are 15 days left to reach an agreement or not. “This is not…
Silvia Vega is in a laboratory but it is not her laboratory. His laboratory is more than 1,400 kilometers away, in another country, in Germany, where a few months ago he made a hopeful scientific discovery in the fight against some of the most aggressive cancer tumors. But now—mid-January—this 48-year-old scientist, born in Villanueva de la Peña, a small town in Cantabria, is in Vitoria. In a more modest laboratory, that of the Carmelitas School, with second-year Baccalaureate students, in a stay of a few days to inspire vocations among students who have the Ebau just around the corner and…
“Bigger, better, richer and stronger”: The US President celebrates himself in his State of the Union speech. The USA has the “safest borders in the history of America”, tariffs still exist, and he wants to prevent an Iranian atomic bomb.
How can young people be attracted to training? Especially when it is not about the “usual” top ten training occupations that young people know from their environment. Even more information on even more channels is not enough: In fact, young people “suffer” less from a lack of information about the numerous training opportunities that are available. Studies show that the problem is the overwhelming number of information channels that make them feel overwhelmed. Info The BA’s digital parents’ evenings The Federal Employment Agency’s (BA) digital parents’ evenings will take place between March 2nd and 12th, 2026. They are a free,…
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