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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Disposable vapes are to be banned in the UK as part of a drive to protect children’s health, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that youth vaping could become “endemic”. Sunak will on Monday also

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU will sabotage Hungary’s economy if Budapest blocks fresh aid to Ukraine at a summit this week, under a confidential plan drawn up by Brussels that marks a significant escalation in the battle between

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. German rightwing populists have suffered a surprise defeat in a widely watched regional election that has followed a fortnight of nationwide protests. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party lost a district election in the state

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Three US service members have been killed by a drone attack on a military base carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups” near the Syria border, the White House said on Sunday.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the author of ‘Chip War’, a professor at the Fletcher School, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a partner at Greenmantle On a recent quarterly earnings call, the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kemi Badenoch, the darling of Conservative activists and bookmakers’ favourite to become the next Tory leader, has told plotters trying to bring down Rishi Sunak to “stop messing around and get behind the leader”. Some

Elon Musk’s X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift after sexually explicit images of the pop star created using artificial intelligence spread widely on the platform. The incident is the latest example of how social media groups are scrambling to tackle so-called deepfakes: realistic images and audio, generated using AI, that can be abused to portray

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China has moved to officially limit short selling after informal efforts failed to stop a worsening stock market sell-off. Investors who buy shares will not be allowed to lend them out for short selling within

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government could kick off a sale of NatWest shares to the public as early as the middle of this year, once a permanent chief executive has been installed at the bank. Government insiders

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International Joe Biden’s record low popularity ratings get a lot of attention, yet leaders across the developed world are in a similar predicament to the US president — they have

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kemi Badenoch has said she ousted the chair of the Post Office because she felt he was unable to deliver the scale of change needed in the aftermath of the Horizon IT scandal. The UK

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the FT’s architecture critic When he left school, Norman Foster worked in the Treasurer’s Office at Manchester Town Hall. He credits the vast Victorian building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was easy to poke fun at crypto back in late 2022. The market had tanked by about two-thirds in the space of a year; many of the industry’s biggest companies and coins had collapsed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1970, a story with disturbing implications for business travellers appeared on page 36 of the Financial Times. It was about what the newspaper called “the so-called jet lag”, and it revealed that an

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cathie Wood has said her tech-focused Ark stock market fund “paid its dues” with two years of steep declines, before roaring back last year with one of the industry’s best performances. Wood’s $8bn Ark Innovation

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Housebuilders are overwhelmingly backing the Labour party to win the next UK election, as government concessions to anti-development MPs and the rapid turnover of housing ministers have alienated the industry.  Some 70 per cent of

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Energy sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Construction on the Kremlin’s long-planned mega-pipeline connecting Russia’s western gasfields with China is expected to be delayed, the prime minister of Mongolia has warned, in a blow to Moscow’s plans to secure a new market

Building the world’s biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, demanded a factory of equal stature. But the double-decker airliner was a commercial failure and the 50-hectare Jean-Luc Lagardère centre in the French city of Toulouse produced the last of the model in 2021. Three years on, a facility with a central hangar that can shelter

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chair of the Post Office has quit its board as the UK government said it was seeking “new leadership” for the state-owned business at the centre of the Horizon scandal. Henry Staunton, who has

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US and China will hold counter-narcotics talks in Beijing next week, after US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi met in Bangkok in an effort to further stabilise relations.

In its politically incendiary but legally nuanced hearing on Friday, the UN’s highest court made one thing clear: Israel’s battle with Hamas will ultimately be judged against the international norms of how war ought to be waged. That, legal experts said, was in itself to be celebrated: the restoration of the primacy of international humanitarian