The continuing battle between Brazil’s Robert Scheidt, reigning Olympic gold medallist Iain Percy, and Britain’s top sailors ramped up another notch in Hyères today as Scheidt, with crew Bruno Prada, snatched the world championship of the Star keelboat class from Percy and crew Andrew Simpson.

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Swansea show more than a passing likeness to Barça

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Swansea outplayed Arsenal at the weekend

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Britain in the medals despite Ainslie absence

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Prada disappoints on market debut

Shares in the Italian fashion house Prada opened only 0.25 per cent higher on its trading debut in Hong Kong yesterday, amid waning investor interest in initial public offerings and volatile global stock markets.

Prada cuts price to get IPO down catwalk

Italian fashion house Prada has made it down the stock-market catwalk at its fifth attempt – but only after cutting the price of its listing by a fifth at the last minute.

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Return of the unacceptable face of capitalism?

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Get ready for a royal good time

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Marathon men: Are Spain running out of puff?

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Usain Bolt: The Bolt show runs on

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Weird and wonderful Jubilee memorabilia

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A right royal trip down the river

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