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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a science commentator Volcanoes house more than molten rock. Alongside the magma sits a mysterious substance called magmatic brine, a mineral-rich soup that collects underneath both active and dormant volcanoes. Geologists are now

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. High Speed 2 is set to get the green light to dig a 4.5-mile tunnel under central London within weeks, with the government expected to release over £1bn of taxpayer cash for the work, according

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US last week paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns about its looming ground operation in Rafah, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. The move marks the first known time that

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors have been building up bets against the pound, as conviction grows that the Bank of England will start cutting interest rates by the summer, ahead of its US counterpart. Currency speculators’ wagers on a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves, Britain’s shadow chancellor, on Tuesday declared to a City audience that “stability is change”, vowing that Labour would break from the “chaos” of recent Conservative economic policymaking. But while Reeves’s reference point is

In the middle of Hong Kong’s business district, on the site of a former car park, an unusual new addition to the city’s famous skyline is nearing its opening date.  The Henderson is a 36-storey office building by Zaha Hadid Architects and named for Henderson Land Development, a developer controlled by one of Hong Kong’s

When the Thames Barrier was built as an elegant stainless steel-capped bulwark to protect Londoners from flooding in the 1980s, it was designed with additional capacity just in case melting glaciers raised sea levels. “Climate change was not even in the dictionary,” said Andy Batchelor, 63, the operations manager who started work on the barrier

Reddit revenues topped analysts’ expectations, sending shares up 16 per cent in after-hours trading in its first quarterly results since its market debut in March. In the second quarter of 2024, the social media group estimated revenue in the range of $240mn to $255mn, above consensus expectations. Revenues rose 48 per cent to $243mn, well

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reddit beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations and raised its forecast in its first earnings announcement since its market debut, sending shares in the social media group up more than 12 per cent in after-hours trading.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The federal judge presiding over the criminal case related to Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents has postponed the Florida trial indefinitely, citing the need for “adequate preparation”. In a filing on Tuesday afternoon, Aileen

Benjamin Netanyahu waited for months to send troops into Rafah, the southern tip of the Gaza Strip where more than 1mn Palestinians have sought refuge from fighting.  When the order finally came on Monday, it was within hours of Hamas finally signalling that it had accepted the outlines of a hostage-for-prisoner ceasefire proposal drawn up with

Israel threatened to expand its military operation in Rafah after tanks and troops seized the main border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as international mediators struggled to continue talks aimed at ending the conflict. Israel launched its ground offensive into eastern Rafah on Monday, hours after Hamas said it had accepted a draft proposal of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor, took the stand on Tuesday morning at Donald Trump’s criminal “hush money” trial in Manhattan, setting the stage for a day of testimony that could prove highly embarrassing for

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chief executive of P&O Ferries accepted a six-figure bonus in 2023 just over a year after it sacked hundreds of UK-based crew and replaced them with foreign agency workers paid from just £4.87 an

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple has unveiled new iPads featuring what it called “an outrageously powerful chip for AI”, signalling the Silicon Valley giant’s growing focus on artificial intelligence services. The company launched the “M4” chip for its latest

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s plans for a second term are those of a dictator. This desire was already evident from his attempt to overthrow the result of the last presidential election and insistence that the Big Lie