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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In the future, perhaps during one of her Baltic walks, Angela Merkel might reflect that calling her memoir Freedom, as Ukraine fights for just that against a Russia she did so much to enable,

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 A century ago, people like me — macroeconomists — did not exist.

It took Jean-Louis Bidet and his team of highly skilled carpenters nearly two years to transform 1,300 oak trees into the wooden backbone of Notre-Dame. Racing to restore the Paris cathedral that was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire in 2019, the carpenters used only axes and no modern tools to assemble and install the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol issued a terse apology on Saturday morning for his failed attempt to impose martial law, ahead of an impeachment vote later today that will decide his political future. In

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A man suspected of killing a top UnitedHealth executive in Midtown Manhattan earlier this week is thought to have left the city, as investigators’ rush to find him continues into its third day. The manhunt

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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. Romania’s constitutional court has annulled last month’s first round of presidential elections after evidence that the leading candidate benefited from Russian intervention. The unprecedented decision to strike down the vote, which was won by far-right candidate

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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. Dressed head to toe in khaki and flanked by unarmed guards, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani triumphantly walked up the steps of Aleppo’s medieval citadel this week. The leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was swarmed by

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Dozens of security chiefs at major US companies met on a call Wednesday to discuss whether they should beef up their safety protocols after an at-large gunman fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a report. Thompson was shot while walking alone from his hotel to a business meeting at the Hilton in Midtown

JetBlue revealed it will cease operating flights from popular US cities, including multiple routes from New Yorks John F. Kennedy Airport, in the foreseeable future. Travelers hoping to catch flights from JFK to Austin and Houston, Texas, and Miami, Fla., should re-evaluate their travel plans as JetBlue told staff Wednesday that those routes would be

A father has been charged with fatally shooting his adult son with Down syndrome at a home in East Texas after claiming he had mistaken him for an intruder and then later burning his body in what authorities on Thursday described as a bizarre crime. Michael C. Howard, 68, who is an attorney in Houston,

The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in four years, US wildlife officials said. The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts

The Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday revealed he has been working “behind the scenes” to create a “bias meter” for every article that comes out of the newspaper. He said he hopes the new tool, which will be backed by artificial intelligence, will be released by January. Its the businessmans latest project

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chair of Japan’s Hitachi has warned that its UK train factory is at risk unless the government revives the northern leg of HS2 or launches other significant infrastructure programmes within a year. In an

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US economy added 227,000 jobs in November, a sharp rebound after the previous month’s total was dragged down by hurricanes and the Boeing strike. Friday’s number, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, beat