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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. I can’t pinpoint the precise time it happened but my transformation from a great parent to an embarrassing one was reinforced the other day when I casually dropped “rizz” into a conversation at home. It

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The global shipping fleet has reached its oldest average age in almost 15 years, despite growing pressure on shipowners to order new, greener vessels and help decarbonise global trade. Shipbrokers, who advise owners on shipbuilding,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas has defended its industry from criticism by green activists, saying it was vital for keeping the lights on in Europe. “I would actually like to think that

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Grant Thornton has been relegated from the UK regulator’s top tier of audit supervision after the firm cut its number of high profile clients, removing more than 70 per cent of those in the “public

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A new Chinese legal database is stoking fears among legal experts about declining data transparency against the backdrop of a wider government clampdown on access to information under President Xi Jinping. China’s Supreme

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US federal regulators have temporarily grounded some Boeing 737 Max planes in American airspace after a section of an Alaska Airlines jet blew out in mid-air. The emergency directive from the US Federal Aviation Administration

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Companies faced a record number of attacks from activist investors in 2023 as disgruntled shareholders sought to oust directors or force the sales of businesses whose share prices had languished.  There were 252 new campaigns

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors have scaled back their wagers on interest rate cuts this year after economic data and warnings from central bank officials poured cold water on a market that had got “way ahead of itself” late

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the past two weeks, American forces have killed Houthi militants in the Red Sea and a senior official in an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq, as well as striking Hizbollah targets in Iraq. The Houthis

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hizbollah launched a barrage of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday in what the Lebanese militant group said was “part of the initial response” to the assassination of a senior Hamas militant in Beirut this

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Police have opened an investigation into the UK Post Office, as the state-owned business faces further probes into its role in the Horizon IT scandal. London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed on Friday that officers were exploring

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This winter, food feels ever more like a minefield. The rich obsess over carbs and gut bacteria, sporting blood sugar monitors as the latest accessory. The poor are trapped on cheap food that has been

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Colorado can ban Donald Trump from the presidential ballot, setting the stage for a potentially landmark legal decision and political firestorm that will have major implications

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Look, this is becoming awkward now. Britain’s prime minister? Asian. London’s mayor? Asian. Scotland’s first minister? Asian. His main opponent? Asian. As for the probable next chairman of the BBC, he isn’t Cornish. “Chin

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden launched a frontal attack on Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as the president cast this year’s likely rematch for the White House as a battle to save US

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The New York attorney-general has urged a judge to force Donald Trump and his businesses to pay $370mn for inflating the value of his real estate empire by billions of dollars over the course of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The British Library will drain about 40 per cent of its reserves to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled one of the UK’s critical research bodies and rendered most of its services inaccessible.

The burnt-out wreckage of a Japan Airlines plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport was a sobering reminder that many of aviation’s worst accidents happen on the ground rather than in the air. Safety investigators spent the week probing the sequence of events that led to a collision between the JAL Airbus A350 and a smaller coastguard

For close to a century, Toyota prided itself on its ability to constantly trim the costs of making its complex, highly engineered vehicles.  But when Takero Kato, the head of the Toyota division tasked with building electric vehicles, travelled through China in 2018 he was shocked by what he found.  “For the first time, I

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Tax experts have taken to social media in an effort to reassure panicking UK gig economy workers and online sellers over new reporting rules affecting the digital platforms they use. Under regulations that came into

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies In the Middle East, wars do not stay within state boundaries. The underlying emotions and grievances, foreign interference, absence of a