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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time around should become easier. Who are the biggest selling band in music history

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Driverless cars will soon be free to roam the streets of San Francisco 24 hours a day. A vote by the California Public Utilities Commission this week means General Motors’ Cruise and Alphabet’s Waymo can

I would often spend more than six hours a day on my phone, just scrolling social media — particularly at the start and end of the day. At those crucial times, when I felt tired and needed to unwind, instead I would overload myself with information, photos, videos, parties, people having fun — focusing for

Sarah O’Connor has written an insightful and very relevant article praising the British “techies” who made companies more productive (Opinion, August 8) during the Industrial Revolution. “One key factor”, she writes, “was the quality and skill of the country’s workers”. This was due in no small part to the rise of mechanics institutes in Britain

The EU has signalled that it will not immediately follow the US in issuing outright bans on investment in China’s cutting-edge technology sector, saying instead that it will make its own proposal by the end of the year. The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that will limit some US investment in sectors

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. WeWork, the US office space company SoftBank once valued at $47bn, has warned for the first time that it faces “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern.  In a second-quarter earnings

This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade’ Tom WilsonI’m at the Fujairah oil terminal in the mountainous northeastern corner of the United Arab Emirates on the Gulf of Oman. The sun’s high in the sky. And behind me, to my left and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Patrick Drahi avoids public appearances. When the French telecoms tycoon speaks up, people tune in to hear what he sounds like as well as what he has to say. A criminal investigation into business partner

S&P Global has stopped handing out scores to corporate borrowers on ESG criteria, at a time of rising questions about their utility and political attacks on such metrics. The debt rating agency has since 2021 published scores from one to five for a company’s exposure to each element of environmental, social and governance risks. Payments

This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from around the FT Let’s jump right into it with our colleague Stuart Kirk’s latest criticism of environmental,

At the Goshen Country Fair 34 miles south-west of Philadelphia on Friday night, the dairy cattle show was in full swing, the fried Oreos were selling fast, there was live music and bingo. And Donald Trump was getting little sympathy in his defence against a mounting series of criminal allegations. “As far as I’m concerned,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Education myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Duke University is finalising a probe into one of its most high-profile professors, sparked by concerns over his own research into dishonesty including a study claiming people were more honest after first being given a “moral

Joyce Carol Oates is stunned to find me at the restaurant. Just minutes before, she was told that all the trains between New York and Princeton, New Jersey, had been cancelled. I found this out the hard way, and spent a woozy 90 minutes in a taxi instead. “I really didn’t think that you’d be

This article is the latest part of the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign Rising inheritance tax bills are certainly keeping the exchequer happy, but they’re also prompting more grandparents to think about tax planning while they are still alive. Lots of readers are giving a lump sum to adult children or grandchildren — perhaps

With the recent explosion of public discourse around AI, largely as a result of ChatGPT, it is no surprise that even dating apps are now embracing the software, as written about by Elaine Moore (“AI entering the dating pool is a bleak prospect”, Opinion, August 1). There is indeed a possibility that such apps could

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sadiq Khan, London’s Labour mayor, has added a further £50mn to a car scrappage scheme in the UK capital after a public backlash against his plan to force older, heavier-polluting cars off the road. Controversy

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Indian business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. India has abruptly restricted the import of personal computers including laptops and tablets as the country works to boost local electronics manufacturing. In a notice issued on Thursday, the commerce ministry’s directorate general

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an adviser to fintech companies and a former financials analyst US banks have rallied hard in the past month driven by a healthy earnings season and a rebound in investor confidence in

The future of democracy in America will turn on the trials of Donald Trump — and the political turmoil that will surround them. The latest indictment of the former president — in connection with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — is the most important case that Trump faces. It

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wall Street dealmaker Michael Klein is taking public in New York a UK investment group that owns a plumbing business, a diesel generator specialist and a forklift truck supplier. The deal, which values Cheshire-based CorpAcq