Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A leading British university is lowering the entry requirements for some international students, who pay higher fees than domestic applicants, in response to “financial challenges”, according to an internal memo. The move by York university
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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. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley lashed out bitterly at each other even more than they attacked Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, as they battled for second place in their party’s primary race. In a televised
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has ended his campaign for president, in a move that was expected to consolidate support for Nikki Haley and the remaining Republicans challenging Donald Trump for the party’s nomination
US President Joe Biden plans to send a high-level delegation of former top officials to Taipei after the election in Taiwan on Saturday, in a move that could complicate efforts by Washington and China to stabilise their strained relationship. The White House has tapped James Steinberg, a former Democratic deputy secretary of state, and Stephen
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the first spot bitcoin exchange traded funds in a watershed moment that cryptocurrency enthusiasts are betting will draw new retail and institutional investors into the market. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The X post on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s official account claiming, falsely, that it had approved US spot bitcoin exchange traded funds on Tuesday appears to have been the result of exactly the type
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. President Joe Biden plans to send a high-level delegation of former top officials to Taipei after the election in Taiwan on Saturday, in a move that could complicate efforts by the US and China to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BrewDog, the UK’s biggest craft beer brewer, has abandoned its pledge to pay all staff the voluntary living wage in a move that points to a broader cooling of wage pressures across the economy. The
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Eurozone economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The eurozone economy looks set for another downturn in the fourth quarter, while a recent pick-up in inflation is expected to persist in the coming months, the vice-president of the European Central Bank has warned.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China has warned large swaths of its business world, state sector and ruling Communist party that they face an intensified anti-corruption campaign as President Xi Jinping expands his hallmark crackdown on endemic graft.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The prospect of bitcoin exchange traded funds leaves cryptocurrencies teetering on the cusp of mainstream respectability. A fake post this week claiming regulatory approval again illustrates the proliferation of crypto scams. It is certainly an
It was a merchant sailor’s nightmare: armed men in balaclavas dropping from a helicopter before storming the ship’s bridge, ordering the civilian crew to lie down at gunpoint and cutting all communications. The scene played out late last year on the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, which was seized in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has announced new legislation to overturn the convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters prosecuted by the Post Office in the Horizon IT scandal. The UK prime minister told the House of Commons on Wednesday
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fujitsu could face “financial sanctions” to help fund compensation for victims of the Post Office scandal if the Japanese software company is found to be at fault, the postal affairs minister has said. Kevin Hollinrake
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I also promise this: a politics that treads a little lighter on all of our lives.” So declared Keir Starmer in his first political foray of what we know will be an election year. After
Sir Ed Davey, leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, has faced harsh criticism this week for his role in the Horizon IT scandal, after it was revealed that he failed to act on claims that sub-postmasters were being wrongly accused of theft and false accounting by the Post Office. But experts and campaigners say that members
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Italian film C’è Ancora Domani (There’s still tomorrow) — set in Rome just after the second world war and shot entirely in black and white — opens with a man slapping his wife across
Ali Hall and Julie Lavington set up Sosandar, a UK online retailer of women’s fashion, in 2016. Within a few years, annual sales had grown to £42mn. But their latest growth initiative is not a refreshed digital marketing campaign or the recruitment of new social media influencers. It is shops: the two founders said in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Trustbusting is very much on the US agenda these days. After years of sabre-rattling about abusive monopolies, American enforcers are facing off against Big Tech with a string of court cases that could
Astrobotic Technology on Tuesday confirmed there was “no chance” its lunar lander would be able to land successfully on the Moon, marking the end of a mission that was to have brought the US back to the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years. The Pittsburgh-based space company, which had hoped to be the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prices of cryptocurrencies swung sharply on Tuesday after a false post on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s official X account claimed the regulator had approved the first ever US spot bitcoin exchange traded funds.