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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. The French government is pressing the UK to help plug a multibillion-pound hole in the budget of nuclear power projects being built in Britain by France’s electricity operator EDF. The call for a contribution from

The UK Post Office privately told ministers this month that it would have opposed appeals by nearly half of the 700 sub-postmasters convicted using data from Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon IT system. The message came days before Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced unprecedented legislation to acquit the sub-postmasters en masse, calling the affair “one of the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Lewis, the British billionaire investor whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, will plead guilty in an insider trading case brought by US authorities. Lewis last year surrendered to US authorities after being charged

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British auto lenders could face up to £13bn in compensation payouts after the UK financial watchdog said it a probe into historic commission agreements that allegedly led to consumers overpaying would scrutinise deals dating back

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Donald Trump won the US presidential election in 2016 America’s allies around the world reacted with consternation and shock. They will have no such excuse if he wins again in November. His victory in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Allies of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are braced for more rebels in his Conservative party to publicly demand his exit, as rightwingers warned that defeats in two looming by-elections would deal another hammer blow

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Time supposedly waits for no one. But try EDF, where clocks really run slow. France’s state-run utility has announced yet another painful increase in the cost and delivery date of its Hinkley Point C nuclear

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A Russian military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday morning, killing all 74 people on board, according to Russian authorities. The defence ministry said the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK economic activity increased at the fastest pace for seven months in January despite the crisis in the Red Sea adding to manufacturing price pressures, according to a closely watched survey. The surprisingly strong growth,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Financial Times had only nice things to say about Benito Mussolini in a June 1933 supplement entitled “The Renaissance of Italy: Fascism’s gift of order and progress”. Trains were running on time, investment was

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has asked China to urge Tehran to rein in Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea, but has seen little sign of help from Beijing, according to American officials. Officials

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Often your plan of attack reveals your deeper weaknesses. After years of ascendancy, Scotland’s ruling Scottish National party faces the strategic challenge of the first UK election for some time in which independence is not

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The struggle to contain political populism in central Europe sometimes looks like a game of “whack a mole”. No sooner is a lid put on it in one country than it pops up in another.

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU is readying more sanctions against Russia and financial support for Kyiv ahead of the second anniversary of the war, in a bid to revitalise waning levels of western assistance to Ukraine. The

Luxury’s biggest groups, such as Richemont, LVMH and Hermès, are expected to widen their lead on weaker competitors as the world’s wealthiest splash out on the highest priced handbags and jewellery. Analysts expect the performance gap between the market’s elite brands and those favoured by aspirational buyers, who helped drive a multiyear luxury boom but

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bill Ackman and his wife Neri Oxman have acquired a stake in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in a transaction that marks one of the most significant investments in Israel since its war against Hamas

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Global nuclear power generation is set to reach an all-time high next year, according to the latest forecasts from the International Energy Agency, marking a resurgence for the technology and boost for efforts to cut

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-founder of Can’t Buy My Silence Between 1999 and 2015, upwards of 900 UK sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to faults in Fujitsu’s accounting software, Horizon, and the Post Office’s rogue accusations.

Apple is quietly increasing its capabilities in artificial intelligence, making a series of acquisitions, staff hires and hardware updates that are designed to bring AI to its next generation of iPhones. Industry data and academic papers, as well as insights from tech sector insiders, suggest the Californian company has focused most attention on tackling the

Donald Trump overcame the biggest early obstacle on his path to a White House comeback on Tuesday night — and delivered what could be the knockout blow to his last competitor on the Republican side. He beat Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, by a margin wide enough to leave little uncertainty about the

Northern Ireland should have been celebrating like a striker who has just scored after it was selected as a venue for the Euro 2028 football tournament. By then, the region hopes to be celebrating 30 years of peace — as long without conflict as the Troubles themselves lasted. But even before construction begins at the