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On October 15, two British megastars took to the stage at London’s O2, their last night in a sellout arena tour of the country. As many as 15,000 adoring fans surrounded a podium that had been set up “in the round” like a boxing ring, cheering and applauding and shouting out “I love you!” Some

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The drivel that flows through the average journalist’s inbox each week is a wonder to behold. Last week though, among the usual alerts about obscure middle managers moving to unremarkable jobs in companies you’ve never

OpenAI’s Sam Altman is reckoning with an unpredictable force that threatens his ambition of transforming the start-up into a trillion-dollar company: Elon Musk. Since Donald Trump was elected president in November, executives at the ChatGPT-maker have been preparing to deal with the incoming US administration — a process complicated by Musk’s emergence as a pivotal

A growing number of Chinese ecommerce merchants are selling their products on Russia’s largest online marketplaces as exporters increasingly look to the platforms to find new markets and avoid western tariffs. Ozon Global, the international version of one of Russia’s largest ecommerce platforms, sources 80 per cent of its orders from China and told the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of Gulfsands, the western oil company most exposed to Syria, has called for changes to sanctions to let outside operators return to the market, boost production and give the country “a chance to

As jubilant Syrians celebrated the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad this week, dire warnings proliferated across Arabic social media: that this joyful moment could lead to a bleak future. That the end of the Assad dynasty came at the hands of an armed Islamist group with former links to al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, deepened alarm

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Blue Whale Growth, the investment fund backed by billionaire Peter Hargreaves, has reduced its exposure to the ‘Magnificent Seven’ group of major US tech companies due to concerns over their vast expenditure on artificial intelligence. Stephen

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A week ago, Taiwan was bracing for a Chinese military exercise to “punish” its president, Lai Ching-te, for a trip abroad that included two short visits to the US. It would have been another show

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US Treasury has told Nippon Steel that the panel vetting its proposed acquisition of US Steel has not reached consensus on how to mitigate security risks, raising the odds that President Joe

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world ABC News will give $15mn to Donald Trump’s future presidential foundation and museum to settle a defamation suit against the network for on-air comments made by George Stephanopoulos, one of its star anchors,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has been in direct contact with the Islamist movement that spearheaded the offensive to topple Bashar al-Assad despite its designation as a terrorist organisation, as western and regional powers push for a peaceful

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s conservatives will campaign in February’s snap election on a platform of tax cuts and tougher controls on illegal immigration, according to a draft manifesto seen by the Financial Times. The 79-page document promises “new

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Multiple sightings of aerial objects after sundown have sparked concern along the US east coast and widespread anger that the federal government is not treating the issue seriously.  Authorities in New Jersey have

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Aid to Gaza remains close to all-time lows one month after the US said it would not halt arms transfers to Israel because it had seen “some progress” in enabling humanitarian aid to reach the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol has been impeached by the National Assembly following his failed attempt to impose martial law last week. Opposition parties, which command a majority in the legislature, only needed the

Every New Year’s Day, Emma Bisley starts asking herself the same question: who is going to win Christmas this year? Since 2023, the cherubic 34-year-old has been head of campaigns for Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain. She thinks about winning Christmas the same way the Grinch thinks about stealing it, which is to say nearly

At a Christmas party this month for his All-In podcast, David Sacks took to the stage sporting a Russian-style fur hat and was ceremoniously gifted a Vladimir Putin calendar and a box of caviar. The Silicon Valley investor was riffing on his appointment last week as Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto “tsar”, while poking

The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England The world is more diverse and interwoven than ever before — economically, culturally, ethnically, generationally. This is largely the result of the postwar explosion in cross-border flows of goods and money, people

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Workplace pensions myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has put a review of pensions on hold after fears it could force employers to increase their contributions to staff retirement pots by billions of pounds. Reeves wants to avoid putting any

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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. We often talk about the housing affordability crisis and the associated economic challenges facing young adults as if they were the same in every developed western country. Insufficient housebuilding has sent rents and prices soaring,