Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US, UK and Australia are to begin talks on bringing new members into Aukus as Washington pushes for Japan to be involved in the security pact aimed as a deterrent against China. The Aukus
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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. Joe Biden has almost $100mn more in his election war chest than Donald Trump, the president’s campaign has said, giving him a big money lead over his rival seven months ahead of the election. Biden
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court in 2009, he said that when she “ascends those marble steps to assume her seat . . . America will have taken another important step towards realising the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has warned of “significant consequences” if Chinese companies provide support for Moscow’s war against Ukraine in one of the sharpest messages it has yet delivered to Beijing. Following discussions in Guangzhou on
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Croydon was never cool. But growing up there I didn’t realise the extent of its sad-sack reputation until I crossed its boundary line. Peers would sneer about the postcode and nod sympathetically when I
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England Over a decade ago, Greece faced a searing financial crisis. As a
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. So far, the highest-grossing films of 2024 are a sequel derived from an old novel (Dune: Part Two), the fourth in a series (Kung Fu Panda 4) and, in Godzilla x Kong: The New
The accounting firm picked to audit Donald Trump’s social media venture has had repeated run-ins with regulators and faced criticism for its failure to live up to professional standards in the US and Canada, according to a review of public filings. BF Borgers has become one of the most prolific auditors of US public companies
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing has disclosed a $32.8mn pay award for outgoing chief executive Dave Calhoun, a 45 per cent increase from the previous year even as the aircraft manufacturer struggles to contain a crisis of confidence in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A New York jury has found Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon liable for defrauding cryptocurrency investors as part of a scheme that allegedly triggered a $40bn loss in market value. The civil verdict, handed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How many people make for a good debate? The closer we get to the expected timing of a first US interest rate cut, the hotter a topic it becomes — and the more individuals weigh
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militant group said that the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus this week widely blamed on Israel marked a “turning point” and vowed that Iran’s response
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bridgepoint rejected a bid from Ari Emanuel’s TKO Group for MotoGP despite it being worth €200mn more than what Formula One-owner Liberty Media offered for the motorcycle series. The private equity firm this week agreed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is former chief of MI6 and UK ambassador to the UN It is hard to understand how the Israeli drone operators failed to know that the World Central Kitchen vehicles they struck on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US employers added 303,000 jobs in March, as a buoyant labour market damped expectations of imminent Federal Reserve rate cuts and boosted president Joe Biden’s re-election bid. The figures released on Friday by the US
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. What do you do if grandma goes on strike? Or when the crèche calls to say your child is sick? Working parents with young children grit their teeth, promise their employer they will make up
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek used compromised intelligence officials in Vienna to spy on European citizens and plot break-ins and assassinations by elite Russian hit squads. He also obtained a Nato government’s cutting-edge cryptography machine
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Rolex Datejust, a self-winding luxury watch that displays the date through its Cyclops magnifying lens, was launched in 1945 and is one of the Swiss company’s iconic models. It has become an emblem of
It was an unlikely step for Cat Earp to leave her job at Gucci and her home in London to move into her husband’s family farmhouse in Devon, miles from a train station, and accessible only with stout boots rather than double G-branded loafers. “Running a farm wasn’t really part of my life plan,” she admits.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water’s parent company has sent a formal notice to bondholders informing them that it has defaulted on its debt, firing the starting gun on a potentially messy restructuring at the owner of Britain’s largest