Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the FT’s person of the year 2022. The 44-year-old has earnt a place in history for his extraordinary display of leadership and fortitude
Breaking news: The EU has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be banned in Europe unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation
Breaking news: The White House is pushing for a meeting with the World Anti-Doping Agency to discuss loosening restrictions on the use of cannabis by athletes. Here's why 👇
‘Jacob Rees-Mogg you're right. You don't need to visit the border... you need to have lived here.’
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the real impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dwyer Hogg.
Edward Luce spoke with dozens of officials to discover what went wrong in Donald Trump’s first real crisis — and found a president who ignored increasingly urgent intelligence warnings and dismissed anyone who claimed to know more than him
Opinion: At least 1m people in Britain are estimated to have lost their jobs since March. Dominic Cummings is not one of them. That’s all you need to know about this week in British politics
Opinion: Argentine President Mauricio Macri has lost touch with reality, and that may have scared markets even more than the prospect of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s return.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are neck and neck in the latest poll in Texas. And Democrats are raising record amounts of money there. Here's how they hope to shift the Lone Star state with the help of powerful women:
When Joe Biden is sworn in as president on January 20, he will be forced to tackle an issue that may define his presidency as much as the health and livelihoods of the American people: the fate of his predecessor, Donald Trump
Iran's exiled crown prince has not returned since he left in 1978 at age 17. Today, Reza Pahlavi is the figurehead for those who believe time is ripe for a regime change
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has won the Democratic primary in her race for re-election to the US House of Representatives, dealing a blow to many Wall Street titans who poured money into her opponent’s campaign
After the Taliban entered Kabul, business owners took down pictures of women from beauty salons, tailor shops and plastic surgery centres for fear of being punished by the militants. Some TV channels replaced soap operas with Islamic shows
FT View: Authorities in Hong Kong have lost popular legitimacy and so have resorted instead to police rule. With no political resolution, the police are expected to govern what has become an ungovernable city. An escalation of the violence is inevitable.
🚨Positive news alert: The number of Covid-19 vaccinations globally has surpassed the total number of confirmed cases.
According to our vaccine tracker, over 105m doses have been administered so far, while the number of confirmed cases is just over 103m
It’s no secret that Trump has tested and twisted the US political system to breaking point, serving as a one-man crash course on the US constitution and legal and ethical norms.
A big question remains: should Washington prosecute a former president?
With less than two weeks until election day, Joe Biden has amassed $761.2m in fundraising — a significant cash advantage over Donald Trump.
Here’s how the Democratic nominee is planning to spend every last penny of his huge fundraising haul
Breaking news: Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, has died at the age of 67. Abe was shot during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara, Japan on Friday
The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. But six years after the UK voted to leave the EU, the Brexit effect has become clear.
In this film, we examine how Brexit hit the UK economy
What happened to Jack Ma? Since the tech billionaire annoyed Chinese President Xi Jinping last year, he has almost vanished. But his disappearance is a sign of something much bigger
China says it will cut its carbon dioxide emissions to nearly zero by 2060, in a surprise move announced at the UN General Assembly in New York.
The country is the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases
Is Trump losing his edge with seniors in Florida?
As Election Day approaches, retirees in the crucial battleground state are deserting the US president over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic
Democracies around the world expressed horror at images of a mob storming the US Capitol to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden as the next US president.
Here's how some world leaders reacted to the scenes from Washington:
Sima Ladjevardian, whose family escaped the revolution in Iran, is now running for Congress in the eighth most expensive congressional contest this November. Though a victory is a tough target, she's part of a group of women shaking Texas's political scene
Medical experts are calling long Covid a public health crisis, with more than 100m estimated to be suffering from the disease worldwide.
Why do some people have symptoms months after infection? Bookmark this explainer 🔖
FT Exclusive: UK ministers blocked a possible deal to call off this month’s rail strikes by preventing the industry from offering unions higher pay deals and adding tough new conditions at the last minute
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich arranged to have a private meeting with President Vladimir Putin the day Ukraine was invaded. According to two people with knowledge of the discussion, Abramovich made a strong case to end the war.
Here’s the story:
Gina Ortiz Jones, a gay former Air Force intelligence officer raised by a single mother from the Philippines, is also running for office in Texas — and she believes that women, angry with how Trump is handling the pandemic, are ready to vote him out
AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford are teaming up to develop and manufacture a vaccine for coronavirus with the aim of building capacity to produce 100m doses by the end of the year if it is shown to be effective
UK lockdown should last until June, according to a top epidemiologist, as global Covid-19 death toll passes 30,000. Follow the latest coronavirus updates here:
It would be a major upset if a candidate from a small party won the contest for Nigeria’s presidency, given the strength of the country’s established political parties. But Peter Obi might do just that after exciting parts of a disillusioned electorate
The Financial Times collected and reviewed evidence including architectural plans, construction photos and images of the building’s collapse to find out what went wrong. Read here:
Former presidential candidate and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, to put it mildly, does not exactly adore the media. But she agreed to have lunch with our US national editor
@EdwardGLuce
. Here are highlights of their talk 👇
Joe Biden is clearly on a massive spending spree:
- A 60-second World Series TV spot narrated by actor Sam Elliott
- A quarter-of-a-million dollar train lease for a six-city campaign tour
- A nearly $4m TV ad campaign in Texas
When Dr David Strain encountered a 64-year-old patient on his ward round, the British geriatrician had a bleak epiphany.
Less than six months earlier he had treated the man for Covid-19. Now, the man's deterioration was painful to witness
Imagine a low, droning sound, with no discernible source. It grows louder.
It makes you anxious until you cannot sleep. It grows louder.
It rattles your eyes, your skull, your teeth. It grows louder.
Read all about the mystery known as ‘the Hum’
The Democratic presidential candidate can afford such splurges thanks to the fundraising prowess of his campaign, which pulled in $493.8m over the past two months, smashing records
A new interview with Elon Musk, named FT person of the year.
While building a market for electric vehicles almost single-handedly, he has also fought off bankruptcy, waged a battle with Wall Street short sellers and started spats with regulators
Here’s how Joe Biden plans to handle some of Donald Trump’s key foreign policy decisions:
✅Rejoin the Paris climate change agreement
✅Rejoin the WHO
✅Rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if Tehran comes into compliance
✅Adopt cooler relations with Saudi Arabia
Teenagers in the US have been filling the void left by adults who still haven't returned to work since the pandemic started.
Some are being promoted to general managers, earning a $50,000 salary, demanding weekends off and tuition reimbursement
The FT view: 'Conservatives should not be allowed to continue without a new mandate from voters. The British people must now choose their political future,' writes the FT editorial board
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In the event that no president is chosen by inauguration day on January 20, an acting president would serve as a caretaker. According to US law, this would be Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, if she retains her position in the new Congress
Breaking news: UK pension schemes are dumping stocks and bonds to raise cash and seeking bailouts from their corporate backers as the crisis in the industry continues to rage a week after the government’s 'mini' Budget
On Tuesday, China’s parliament attacked a ruling by Hong Kong’s High Court to overturn a month-old ban on face masks. Beijing claimed it was the only authority with ‘the right to make [such] judgments’
While in office, Trump has been protected by the Department of Justice numerous times. For instance, the DoJ helped the president stall a state criminal investigation into possible tax fraud
AJ Tracey’s music has been streamed more than 500m times. But he has not signed to a record company — making him one of a growing number of artists pursuing commercial success independently
Why has it taken us so long to take the issue of climate change as seriously and as urgently as we need to?
Ahead of the global
#climatestrike
and the UN
#ClimateAction
summit, the FT and The Royal Court present a short film on climate change inaction with actress Nicola Walker.
Warren Buffett is the third richest man in the world and has an estimated worth of $86bn.
What keeps him going? We sat down for a three-hour interview to learn why he wants to keep doing what he has loved to do since buying his first shares at age 11.
Breaking news: Agents from Pakistan’s anti-corruption force have arrested former prime minister Imran Khan outside an Islamabad court where he was due to face corruption charges
The president’s conduct before and while in office offers potential targets for possible federal investigation.
Most notably, Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign found several instances of possible criminal obstruction of justice
The public disagrees: 83% of the population blame the government for escalating violence and 74% blame the police, compared with 41% who blame the protesters, according to a survey released by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute last week
How liveable will earth be in 2070?
Up to a third of the projected global population of 9bn could be exposed to temperatures on a par with the hottest parts of the Sahara, according to research by scientists from China, US and Europe
The UK must take the lead in standing up for Hong Kong, writes Chris Patten, the last British governor of the territory. We have a political and moral obligation to do so
People with disabilities in England should be given priority for vaccination against Covid-19, according to leading charities. Here’s what you need to know 🔍
COP26, the climate summit in Glasgow, is rapidly approaching.
We looked at the top 5 countries, emitting the most emissions and the pledges they’re bringing to the world stage:
🇨🇳 China
🇺🇸 US
🇮🇳 India
🇷🇺 Russia
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Breaking news: Economic growth in the UK will grind to a halt next year with only Russia, hobbled by western sanctions, performing worse among the G20 leading economies, the OECD forecast on Wednesday