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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. Ireland’s corporation tax receipts bounced back strongly in November after three months of falls, alleviating fears that a bonanza from international technology and pharmaceutical companies in the country had peaked. But finance minister Michael McGrath

The superlatives roll off the tongue when it comes to India: the world’s most populous nation; the world’s fastest-growing large economy, and the third-largest of all by 2027 (when the IMF expects it to overtake Japan and Germany); the pivotal Asian nation amid an ever growing Sino-American rivalry. India also lays claim to the world’s

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. The UK will make it harder for employers to hire overseas staff in an attempt to reduce record immigration by 300,000 a year, a Venezuelan referendum lays claim to two-thirds of neighbouring Guyana, and the White

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spotify will axe almost a fifth of its workforce after warning that economic growth had slowed dramatically and it needed to cut costs as the music streaming giant seeks to turn subscriber growth into consistent

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a former Nato secretary-general This week, EU leaders will touch down in Beijing for the first in-person EU-China summit in four years. The meeting comes at a moment of geopolitical

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Conservative policy that limits child benefit payments to the first two children in a family has disproportionately affected those living in the north of England and the Midlands. Government data obtained under freedom of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Your emotional relationship with money is key to your financial success. Understanding the emotional triggers that drive financial decision making is a valuable exercise. With this quiz, based on my book What They Don’t Teach

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Insurer Aspen is targeting New York instead of London for its planned $4bn initial public offering next year, partly because of management concerns about valuations and more stringent listing requirements in the UK, according to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Download crossword FT.com will bring you the crossword from Monday to Saturday as well as the Weekend FT Polymath. Interactive crosswords on the FT app Subscribers can now solve the FT’s Daily Cryptic, Polymath and

My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best. They were big occasions: she would invite 60 or 70 people for dinner and set up tables not only in the capacious dining room and kitchen, but also in the drawing room and the hall. The very best table was at the foot of her four-poster bed.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you have given yourself the pleasure of acquiring a few luxuries in recent years, then you will have done very well. Not only will your gifts to yourself have presumably made you happy, you

For the past six days, Israel has let 30 Palestinian women and children out of jail for every 10 hostages Hamas has released from captivity in Gaza. To Israel, each is a terrorist, convicted in a military court of crimes from attempted murder to the vaguely worded “damage to security area”. And then there are

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s not the first time that director Simon Godwin has sent us to hell. His Man and Superman included the passage of Don Juan languishing in limbo. Now, he takes that production’s pair, Ralph Fiennes

Signa Holding, the central company in the sprawling property group that owns half of New York’s Chrysler Building, almost all of Germany’s biggest department stores and part of Selfridges in London, filed for administration on Wednesday. The rapid unravelling of the group has left lenders across Europe racing to assess their exposure to the business

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Vietnam will raise its tax rate in effect on multinational companies including Samsung and Intel, in a move that will bring it in line with a global agreement to crack down on corporate tax avoidance

Coffee is a versatile drink: a stimulant, a social catalyst, a source of endless debate about roasts and terroir for coffee snobs. But, in Colombia, the world’s third-largest producer, it has found yet another use: as a building material. Thanks to Bogotá-based construction firm Woodpecker, which turns husks left over from coffee production into building

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in the next few days for the UN’s COP28 climate summit where, during the next two weeks, negotiators will

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Israel-Hamas truce extended’ Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, November 28th. And this is your FT News Briefing. Israel and Hamas extended their temporary ceasefire by a couple of days. And Elon Musk is suing Sweden. Yeah, you

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Metro Bank has secured overwhelming shareholder support for the issue of new shares as part of a £925mn refinancing deal to shore up its balance sheet. The refinancing package, which includes £150mn of new equity

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Dante Project Royal Opera House, london Melissa Hamilton and William Bracewell in ‘The Dante Project’ © Andrej Uspenski After an exhilarating run of Don Quixotes, the Royal Ballet has headed down to the deep