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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. Recent sightings of the 71-year-old Vladimir Putin tend to be described in the hushed tones of a concerned matron. Did you see his arm tremble? Why is he looking so puffy and pale? What’s all

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian authorities have arrested two men suspected of carrying out online recruitment activities on behalf of the Islamist terror group Isis on Tuesday, in yet another sign of the heightened security alert across Europe following

You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Remember the Metaverse? By now we were all supposed to be piloting personal avatars through immersive digital landscapes. But a sudden glut of investor interest has dribbled away. Facebook was so keen on the concept initially that its CEO Mark Zuckerberg renamed the company Meta. Spending

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some of Netflix’s competitors are reversing a streaming war tactic by licensing their old TV shows and movies to the streamer — boosting its programming offerings but also potentially squeezing its profit margins, analysts say.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden and Donald Trump raised far more money for their election campaigns in the third quarter than their presidential rivals, but much less than former presidents at the same phase of previous races, according

The coastal strip of Gaza, the hemmed-in Palestinian enclave under Israeli bombardment, has grown over seven decades of displacement and conflict into a community that is almost unique in the world. Covering an area roughly a quarter of London, Gaza is more crowded in parts than Manhattan — even though it lacks the high-rise buildings.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British nationals sentenced to jail in England and Wales could be transferred to prisons elsewhere in Europe under radical legislation to address the crisis in the penal system to be announced on Monday. Justice secretary

On the campaign trail in 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Israeli city of Ashkelon, which had been hit by recent rocket fire from Palestinian militants in nearby Gaza, and vowed to “return security . . . to the citizens of Israel” and topple Hamas. Such tough-talking helped Netanyahu win the election, and he has positioned himself ever since as

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Partners at “magic circle” law firm Allen & Overy and New York’s Shearman & Sterling have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a merger between the two groups, clearing the path for one of the industry’s

When Bernard McCoy was stationed in Italy with the US air force in the 1990s, the culture of design and creative collaboration he witnessed there made an impression. When he arrived back home in Atlanta, he saw the potential for his native city, just like Milan or London, to develop events for sharing, discussing and

Think of retirement and what kind of images come into your mind? The younger you are, the less rosy they’re likely to be. While older generations of “Saganauts” might have stopped work entirely, and collected a generous pension as they headed into the sunset, the under-45s face a very different set of financial challenges. This

G7 officials have backed European efforts to tap billions of euros of profits generated from frozen Russian assets, a day after US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen swung behind the idea. Finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Marrakech said on Thursday evening they had agreed to explore how “extraordinary revenues” from frozen Russian central

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former Barclays trader found guilty of manipulating a key interest rate benchmark has been given another chance to appeal against his conviction following a review by the body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK competition watchdog is investigating British television groups such as the BBC, ITV and Hat Trick Productions over a suspected infringement over the use of freelance workers to make and broadcast their shows. The

Stargazing at the movies has this in common with celestial stargazing: you’re looking at activity that happened long before you looked. What seems a living present is a trick of time and perception. Sometimes the paradoxes of the cinema cosmos can be even more headspinning. Past, present and future perform a mega-dance of change, contradiction

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Hamas is not Israel’s only concern’ Marc FilippinoGood morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, October 12th. And this is your FT News Briefing. [MUSIC PLAYING] US bank earnings look like they’ve taken a turn for the worse. And the jury in

The Adani Group, the politically connected conglomerate that dominates large parts of India’s economy, appears to have imported billions of dollars of coal at prices well above market value, according to customs records reviewed by the Financial Times. The data supports longstanding allegations that Adani, the country’s largest private coal importer, has been inflating fuel

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden ramped up diplomatic efforts to prevent Israel’s anticipated ground assault on Gaza from spiralling into a regional conflagration, telling the country’s prime minister he must follow the rules of war and warning other

Hello and welcome to Working It. The only good news is that Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel Prize for economics. The Harvard professor has devoted her career to examining women’s outcomes in the labour market. As the FT puts it: “One of her most counterintuitive findings was that women’s participation in paid employment did

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Gideon talks to the historian and writer Lawrence Freedman about what led to the catastrophic events of the past week in Israel and what options the Netanyahu government has to respond to Hamas’s deadly attack. Clips: