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A cask of single malt from 1975, distilled at Ardbeg distillery on Islay, was sold to a private buyer beating the previous record by £1m

The cask was sold to the buyer for £16 million, beating the previous record set earlier this year by £1 million. The eye-watering price tag is more than double what the owners paid for the distillery itself in 1997.

All the biggest stars of football are warming up in Asia as part of pre-season tours next week, while Premier League heavyweights face off in Bangkok as new United manager Erik ten Hag’s first game against Jurgen Klopp’s side

Manchester United and Liverpool will next week kick off a packed pre-season as European clubs return to the Asia-Pacific region for the first time since the pandemic, keen to tap back into lucrative markets. The English Premier League heavyweights face off in Bangkok on Tuesday for new United manager Erik…

As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in Group of 20 meetings on his first visit to Asia in more than six months, his Chinese counterpart is halfway through a two-week diplomatic blitz across the key strategic battleground.

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Better opportunities will arise from ASEAN and Pacific island nations banding together.

Crude extended the week's losses Thursday, while the euro struggled to recover from 20-year lows and equities were mixed as recession fears continued to cast a pall across trading floors. Expectations for a contraction in some of the world's leading economies, including China, where a new Covid-19 flare-up has generated…

The Bristol-based travel company said the funding would support the company's "ambitious" growth plans