This past month James Norton has graced our screens as the charismatic foreman Sean Rafferty in House of Guinness, the new Netflix drama set amid Ireland’s brewing heritage.
Rugged, warm and quietly commanding, James once again shows why…

This past month James Norton has graced our screens as the charismatic foreman Sean Rafferty in House of Guinness, the new Netflix drama set amid Ireland’s brewing heritage.
Rugged, warm and quietly commanding, James once again shows why…

Reports of respiratory infection, especially pneumonia, will surge with winter now kicking over and its chill. The two most vulnerable groups are children younger than five and older adults over sixty due to low levels of immunity and…

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Marketing campaigns for Wicked, Severance, Sinners, Weapons, Abbott Elementary and 28 Years Later are among the winners for the 2025 Clio Entertainment Awards.
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Rolly van Rappard, Chair of CVC Capital Partners plc, said: “We are delighted to welcome Catherine to the Board. She brings extensive experience in Private Wealth and Asset Management, helping drive our growth in these complementary channels, as we continue to build our market leadership across Private Equity, Credit, Secondaries, and Infrastructure.”
In addition to Catherine’s leadership of the Global Wealth Management division at BNY, she was also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the Chief Executive Officer of Bank of New York Mellon, N.A., the business’s national bank subsidiary.
Upon appointment, Catherine will join the Board as an independent Non-Executive Director and will become a member of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees. She will also serve as Chair of the Risk Committee.
Catherine is also an Independent Director on the Board of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. In addition, she serves on the Boards of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation and the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, and on the Investment Committees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Helmsley Charitable Trust.
CVC sees accelerating momentum in both the Private Wealth and Insurance channels, with c.€3bn of aggregate value across CVC-CRED and CVC-PE at Q3 2025 (+69% vs. Q2 2025); and significant progress across multiple fronts in Insurance.

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Milestone: ‘Buckyballs’ discovered and described
Date: Nov. 14, 1985
Where: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Who: Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl
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Key Production Group founder Karen Emanuel has projected “steady growth” for vinyl in 2026 and saluted Taylor Swift’s impact on the physical music market.
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